Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1929, Page 1

WEATHER. **From Press to Home (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy tonight: tomorrow fair, with Within the Hour” slowly vising temperature: lowest to- The Star's carrier system covers night about 40 degrees, city block and the regular edi- Temperatures—Highest, 41, st noon is delivered to Washington homes today lowest, 35wt 630 wim. todny. . e e e i Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 VLT SURDAT MORRINGVERERION Il= Yjsfierdly': CircEI:‘on, 110,902 No. 30,983, Baerrdias second cives macier WASHINGTON, D. FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1929—FIFTY-EIGHT PAGES. * e A o TWO CEN CAPITAL THRONGED A VISITORS ARRIVE FORINAUEURATION Arrangements for Celebra- | tion Monday Are Prac- tically Completed. AERIAL SHOW’S EXTENT LEAVES ROOM FOR DOUBT| Some Flying Will Take Place at| Bolling Field, However, Be- tween 2 and 3 0'Clock. List of Public Entertainment for Tomorrow Given Here is the list of public enter~ tainment arranged by the inau- gural committee for tomorrow: Exhibit of Washington, past, present and future, Washington Building, Fifteenth street, New York avenue and G street, open from 9:30 am. to 9:30 p.m. 10 a.m. to 12 noon—U. S. Navy, open for inspection: U. S. Coast Guard cutters Mohave, Manning, Seneca and Apache, will be open to the public at the Navy Yard aock. 2 pm. to 2:30 p.m.—Over Po- tomac Park and Monument Grounds, air demonstration by Army Air Force. 2:30 pm. to 3 pm—From Naval Air Station, air demonstra- tion by Naval Air Force. 3:20 p.m.—Riding Hall, Fort Myer, Va.; Cavalry and Field Ar- tillery drill for inaugural visitors; admission by card, 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.—Pan- American Building open to public No card necessary. Promenade concert of Latin American music. 8 p.m. to 10;30 p.m.—Corcoran Art Gallery open to public. Ad- mission 25 cents. | The ever-widening stream of inaugural wvisitors, in evidence here for the past few days, was swelling to flood propor- | tions today, and as the growing thou- | sands thronged into the Capital, ar- rangements for the celebration virtually were completed. Meanwhile, there was some doubt as to the extent of the aerial show planned | here tomorrow afternoon to launch formally the entertainment program for the visitors on aceoun of flying condi-{ tions, but it was:announced that there would be some flying from Bolling Field bétween 2 and 3 o'clock. " Headquarters of the inaugural com- mittee buzzed with activity today, but | in all other phases of the inaugural the participants slept on their arms, await- ing only the signal to move. Army of- ficers detailed to the inaugural—and scores of officers stationed in Washing- ton will take part—met this afternoon | 1o receive instructions and go over final | details of the varied program. The housing committee of the inaugural committee announced that it will not take any more tenders of rooms for in- augural visitors, believing that the quarters for 50,000 visitors arranged for by the committee will be ample. The larger hotels are full, and there is little doubt that sleeping room will be at a premium by Sunday, although not at such a premium as during the inaugu- rals of two-score years ago, when bil- liard tables were called into use as temporary beds. “Every One Is Coming.” Word was passed down the line of | the transportation and hotel compa- nies today that “every one is coming and no one is leaving." Representatives of all types of conveyance reported an unending stream of visitors. Movement of special trains and large parties were reported at the Union Station and a room clerk in one of the leading hotels said succinctly: “We'll be putting 'em up in the ball room by 6 o'clock this evening.” Garages were handling a large num- ber of automobiles from distant States, and while officials hoped to be able to accommodate all who applied, it was Coolidge’s Act Today Seen as Crusghing Hopes cf Mrs. Willebrandt. fice Content With Having Done Good Work. Secretary of Navy Curtis D. Wilbur was nominated by President Coolidge today to be United States Circuit judge of the ninth circuit of California, his native State. The nomination was forwarded to the Senate for confirmation immediate- Iy after the last mecting of the cabinet with the President The judgeship in California was an additional officc newly created by the division of the eighth circuit. Secre- tary Wilbur is the first member of the retiring cabinet to be appointed to public office. Before his appointment as Secretary of the Navy Mr. Wilbur was chief justice of the Supreme Court of Cal- ifornia, having engaged in the legal profession after his retirement from the Navy in earlier life. The appointment of Mr. Wilbur ap- parently closed the door to fulfillment brandt, assistant to the Attorney Gen- cral, who since the presidential cam- paign has been represented as being favorable to appointment to the bench in Califorria, which also is her native State. The Department of Justice made | known shortly after the nomination of Mr. Wilbur was announced that there are no other judgeship vacancies in Federal districts in the State. Wilbur's departure from the Presi- Secretary Leaves Naval Of-i of a wsih of Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille- | WILBUR NOMINATED TO POST OF CALIFORNIA CIRCUIT JUDGE ECRETARY WILBUR. dent’s official family will be accom- panied by the appearance of his brother, Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stan- ford University, in another cabinet post, that of Secretary of the Interior. This is the first time in many years that two brothers have held cabinet positions. though serving under different admin- istrations. Coming to the cabinet in 1924, ad- mirably fitted for his new duties, com- bining more than 25 years' judicial perience in California courts, with men orles of his four years at Annapoli from which he graduated in 1888, Wil- bur has been one of the most popular naval secretaries in recent administra- tions. _Blessed with a kindly_tolerance of (Continued on Page 2. Column 1.) | RAIL MERGER PLAN MEETS OPPOSITION Southern and Louisville & Nashville Lines Open First Attack. By the Associated Press. The first attack on the gigantic rail- road merger plan presented to the In- | terstate Commerce Commission last | week by the Baltimore & Ohio was | instituted today by hostile railroads. The Southern System and the Louis- ville & Nashville, acting jointly, took lirect issue with the merger project, in so far as it involved the purchase of the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louis- ville, generally called the Monon Sys- tem. They appealed to thec ommis- sion not to allow the Baltimore & Ohio to purchase the Monon, pointing out that they owned 93 per cent of the outstanding Monon common stock and 77 per cent of its preferred. Unwilling to Sell. “The Betmoners do not desire and are wholly unwilling to sell the rail- road,” the Louisville & Nashville-South- ern petition said, “their stock in it, or any part of their stock to the Balti- more & Ohio or to lease the property.” It was further suggested that the intended acquisition of the Monon by the Baltimore & Ohio would violate anti-trust laws. The two objecting railroads asked opportunity to present evidénce in argument against any Baltimore & Ohio advance toward ac- quiring the Monon. Van Sweringen Status. ‘The Monon was only one of several first-class lines in eastern territory which the Baltimore & Ohio consoli- dation plan mentioned for eventual inclusion in a single system with its present lines. The Van Sweringen in- terest of Cleveland likewise put for- ward a plan for merging a number of carriers with the Chespeake & Ohio, but so far no opposition has appeared to the Chesapeake & Ohio petition. TWO DIE IN ATTEMPT TO SINK BURNING SHIP indicated that by Sunday standing room only signs would be shown. Private parties even had started ar- | Tiving by steamboat., with peak loads booked for tomorrow and Sunday. { Special train movements from South- emn cities, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Palm Beach and Lake Worth, Fla. and| Gulfport, Miss., the last city sending a | large group of Confederate veterans, were arriving during the day at Union Station, and virtually every incoming train carried extra equipment to ac- commodate the thousands who are bent on seeing Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis inaugurated. A private party from Palm Beach was | British Vessel, Laden With Powder and Dynamite, Explodes in Harbor. By the Associat~d Press. BOGOTA, Colombia, March 1.—Gov- ernment reports on the explosion yes- terday of the British steamship Tritonia in the harbor of Buenaventura showed that the two members &f the crew who were killed had sacrificed themselves in an attempt to sink the vessel before to arrive at 4:15 pm. today and the Harmonica Band of Lake Worth was scheduled to arrive Sunday morning. Christiansen Party Due, One of the largest parties was that headed by Gov. and Mrs. Theodore Christiansen of Minnesota, who, with prominent Republicans and others num- | bering about 80, plan to arrive in | busses. Among them are C. H. McKen- zie, Republican national committeeman | | Mrs. Manly L. Fossen. Republican na- | tional committeewoman Several entertainments have been planned in their honor, including a din- ner to be held at the Willard fotel Sunday evening and a reception Tues- day evening. The party will stop at the Powhatan Hotel The high spot of Washington's par- ticipation in the festivities will be reached Monday afternoon when the Iaugural committee will present to the incoming President and Viee President gold medals bearing likenesses of Mr Hoover by The presentation will be made Lieut. Col. U. S, Grant, 3d. chair- \ of the committee, and will not be until after Mr, Hoover has fin- ished his ina al address and the official part of the induction function has been completed. Col. Grant did not know today whether the presentation will be made at the Capitol or at the White House after Mr. Hoover heads | the parade and leaves it at Twelfth street for luncheon in the Executive nsion e return of clear weather today aftcr many days of snow and rain, Wwhich turned Bolling Field into a marsh, gave promise that the aerial parades and exhibitions to be held in connection with inauguration day flames could reach the 1,150 tons of explosives in the cargo. ‘When fire broke out on the ship the two engineers, Johnstone and Hall. They remained to open the seacocks. but the fire spread rapidly and 200 boxes of dynamite and several tons of powder exploded. The blast caused serious damage to public buildings on the waterfront. A number of persons ashore were injured by fragments of iron hurled from the Tritonia. It also was stated that the first mate of another steamer dropped dead when the blast shook the harbor. The ministers of war and finance have started investigations and have ordered rapid repair of the public buildings. i FOCH SLIGH1."LY BETTER. | PARIS, March 1 (@) —Sleht im- | provement in the condition of Ma nl Foch was noted by his physicians in a bulletin_issued this morning The bulletin said: “The marshal's temperature is 98.7 and his pulse 84, | There is a diminution in the pul- | monary symptoms.” Bank Statements Washington clearing house, $5495,- 713,54 Treasury balance, $86.401,687.53. New York clearing house exchange, $2.216,000.000. would go through with some last- tCoutinued on Page 2, Column 5. New York clearing house balance £189,000,000, cera] | Defore for Minnesota, and Mrs. McKenzie, and | the_Customhous=, a hotel and several | HOOVER GETS REST BEFORE INAUGURAL Completion of Cabinet and Address Affords Time for Recreation. With his cabinet making and the writing of his inaugural address fin- ished, President-elect Hoover proposes to take it easy from now until his in- auguration. He made few engagements and indicated that he would take a long walk or else go with Mrs. Hoover for an automobile ride. Since his return to Washington from his Florida vacation he has had little time for recreation and has only in- frequently been beyond the confines of his 8 street home. Mr. Hoover has given the impression that he still feels confident at least two of his cabinet will be a surprise when the ten names are published Monday. These are the Secretaries of Com- merce and Agriculture. To make elev- enth-hour guessing more difficult it has been said by those close to Mr. Hoover that the two men selected for those two places have never been mentioned in the cabinet speculation. Callers at Home. Among those Mr. Hoover received at his home today were Dr. Hubert Work, chairman of the Republican national committee; C. Bascom Slemp, Republi- can national committeeman from Vir- ginia; Col. Noble B. Judah, Ambassador to Cuba, and Senator Glenn of Illinois. Secretary of War Davis is to be a luncheon guest, but this is not to be taken as having any cabinet significance. It is understood, however, that Mr. Davis would be willing to serve in a diplo- matic capacity, and it is thought not at all unlikely that the question of offering him one of the major foreign posts might possibly come up during his call on Mr. Hoover this afternoon. It has been hinted that Mr. Hoover has his former cabinet associate in mind for appointment to either Paris or London. Son’s Wife Arrives. Mrs. Herbert Hoover, jr., arrived at the Hoover residence today, where she will remain until the inauguration. Later she will be a guest at the White House with her husband for a week or 50. Mr. Hoover's youngest son, Allan, is expected this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, sr., will be dinner uests at the White House Sunday night, They have no other plans for Sunday other than attendance at the Quaker Church at Thirteenth and Irvnig streets. | TWO HURT IN EXPLOSION OF HYDRAULIC PISTON | Fragment of Metal Hurled Into School Yard at Pittsburgh Be- fore Children Swarm Spot. By the Assoclated Press, | PITTSBURGH, March 1.—Two men | were injured and the plant of the N. C. | erew was landed with the exception of | Davison Gas & Oil Burner Co. was | partly wrecked today by explosion of a huge hydraulic piston. One saction of the piston was cata- pulted into the yard of the Springfield Public School, where it ripped a hole in | the concrete pavement a few minutes | hundreds of school children varmed into the school yard for re- | Another huge plece of steel fell onto | Marshall Field, a public playground. | The field was deserted at the time. The injured men are Joseph Flanik, 122, and Henry A. Kuhn, 32, employes of |the company. Flanik's condition was described as serious. | |QUAKE WITHIN 1,000 MILES |OF NEW YORK IS RECORDED Severe Shocks Believed to Have | Occurred in Ocean Bed as No | Damage Reported. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK. March 1.—The seis graph at Fordham University recorde a “very severe” earthquate within 1,000 | miles of New York today. | " Because of the severity of the dis- | turbance, officials believed it must have | occurred” in the ocean bed. If it had {been on land they were convinced it would have done large damage, The first shock was at 2:45 o'clock this morning. Maximum intensity was | recorded at 2:49 and the disturbance continued until 4 o'clock. At 4:17 there sWas an additional shock, PRESIDENT VOICES REGRET IN BODIG CABINET FAREVELL | |Occasion Reflects Relief at | Laying Aside Responsibili- ties After Eight Years. {MEMBERS AND WIVES TO BE DINNER GUESTS| Inauguration Plans Discussed at Final Business Session of Coolidge Advisers. By the Associated Press. On the eighth anniversary of his ar- rival in Washington, President Coolidge presided today at the last meeting of his cabinet, thanked his group of official advisers for their services and 2xpressed | regret that the time had come for a severance of their close association. | The occasion also reflected Mr. Cool- | idge’s feeling of relief that he is laying | aside the responsibilities of the presi- dential office. To each of the cabinet members the | President has sent a letter of apprecia- tion, which was described by the recip- {lents themselves as a touching tribute land a splendid memento of their sery- | tce in omce. As is usual, the cabinet officers ar- rived at the executive offices one bv one, out by 10:30 all were In their places. Report One by One. A little more than a half hour later, Secretary West emerged, followed close- ly by Secretary Kellogg. One by one. as they had gone in, the remainder of the cabinet left the White House. Outside the executive offices news photograph- ers were waiting with a demand that they pose for pictures. Although today's meeting was the last gathering of the cabinet group for the | discussion of Government business they | will be together with the President twice more, Tomorrow evening the cabinet | officers with their wives are to be dinner | guests of Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge at the White House and again on Monday they will gather at the Executive Man- sion to motor to Capitol Hill for the inauguration ceremontes. It is expected | that Mr. Coolidge will make his fare- | wells to the cabinet at that time. A spirit of “business as usual” per- meated today's meeting, the cabinet member said, but there was nevertheless an atmosphere of regret brought on by the fact that it was the last of their semi-weekly meetings, Inauguration Plans Discussed. A large part of the time was spent in discussi for inauguration day and it was decided that they weuld o’'clock on Monday morning to go to the inaugural ceremonies. meet at the White House at 10:35 It is customary to keep the Presi- dent’s engagement list to a minimum on cabinet days, but the number of Washington officials who called to say farewell continued large. The President received Gen. Lord, director of the Budget Bureau, who has been a fre- quent caller throughout his administra- tion, Later Assistant Secretary Mac- Cracken of the Department of Com- | merce called to say farewell, followed 4 | by Representative French of Idaho and Representative Eaton of New Jersey and Robert W. Bliss, Ambassador to the Argentine. In addition, there were several who, although they had no engagement with the President, succeeded in reaching |him say good-by. These included | two Democratic members of the Senate, | Senator Harrison of Mississippi and Senator Bruce of Maryland. | RIGHT OF WAY GIVEN NICARAGUA MEASURE House Rules Committee Agrees to Favor Early Action on Canal Investigation Proposal. By the Associated Press. The House rules committee today agreed to give legislative right of way in the House to a Senate measure to authorize an investigation and survey for a Nicaraguan canal. At the same time the rules commit- tee approved a resolution for the con- sideration of a measure to grant @ thority to the House ways and means committee and the House agriculture commitlee to meet between the end of the short session and the beginning of the extra session to work on farm relief legislation. Authority for these committees to hold hearings was carried in the second deficiency bill, but the separate resolu- tion was introduced as a precaution in the event that the second deficiency bill should not become a law before the ex- piration of this Congress. PRESIDENT. IS lNV|TED. “Real Rest” Offered in Mississippi by Senator Harrison. President Coolidge today was invited by Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippt to come to that State for a real rest and vacation after he shall have left the White House. The Mississippi Sen- ator called upon the President to bid him good-bye and to wish him every success and happiness in the future. He assured the President of his personal re- gard for him, World-Famous profe | By the Associated Press. | VIENNA, March 1.— Double suicide | to escape the travail of illness and financial reverses was the police expla- nation today of the death yesterday of Prof Clemens Pirquet and his wife. The bodies of the two were found in a close embrace in a bed at their home. ‘There were evidences of narcotics to indicate they had weighed life, found it wanting. and taken the drug, lying down together to die in each other’s arms, Prof. Pirquet, who developed a serum skin test for tuberculosis now in world- wide use and who was mentioned for the Austrian presidency in succession | to former President Hainisch, recently had lost a suit involving heavy financial nbligations to his brother-in-law. After that he had sent his papers and will to his lawyer for safekeeping. Mme, \ JONES BILL AWAITS COOLIDGE SIGNING Liquor Punishment Measure Passes in House, 183 to 90. | By the Associated Press. Approved by both houses, the Jones bill today needed only the President’s signature to become law. The meas- ure was passed by the House yesterday by the one-sided vote of 183 to 90. ‘The bill provides as a maximum penalty for a first violation of the pro- | hibition laws five years in prison or a fine of $10,000, or both. Discretionary power is given Federal judges to dis- criminate between minor and major offenders. Introduced by Senator Jones, Re- publican of Washington, the..Ineass, ure was probably the only one] con-sidered during the session in which the issue between the wets and drys was well defined. A few drys were against it because they thought the law too stringent, but very few as the votes showed. While it was in the Senate it precipitated a debate between Reed of Missouri and Borah of Idaho, but all the Missourian’s elo- quence did not keep the bill from passing the Senate by almost as large & margin, comparatively speaking, as it did the House. McBride Looks On. During the debate on the biil in the House F. Scott McBride, general super- intendent of the Anti-Saloon League, sat in one section of the gallery, while in another section were representatives of the Association Against the Pro- hibition Amendment. Dr. McBride's presence was noted by Representativ> O'Connor, Democrat, New York, in an attack upon the bill. Representative O’Connor intimated that the advocates of the Jones measure were not sup- porting the Constitution but were pa: ing the bill because of the “Anti- Saloon League, whose leader and whose dictator sits there in the corner watch- ing your every move and who is send- ing messages down here somewhere.” “He sits up there, Dr. McBride, the super-president of the United States,” O'Connor continued. “Many of you know he is there. That is the Consti- tution and that is the amendment you are supporting and not the eighteenth amendment.” Moore Criticizes O'Conner. Representative Moore, Republican, Ohio, attacked O'Connor because the New York member had declared in a speech on Wednesday that he despised and abhorred the ecighteenth amend- ment and would not vote for any meas- ure to enforce it. During the discussion in the House an amendment, proposed by Repre- sentative Tucker, Democrat, Virginia, to discriminate between first offenders and the habitual violators of the dry laws was adopted by a standing vote, but when the amendment was submitted to a roll call it was defeated. ‘The Tucker amendment was opposed by Representative Christopherson, Re- publican, South Dakota, on the ground that any change in the measure at this stage of the congressional session would endanger its becoming a law. ‘The amendments offered included one by Representative O'Connor to make capital punishment the penalty for dry- law violations. This proposal, like all others, was rejected. ©O'Cor:nor said he offered the amend- ment to show the temper of the House and predicted it would be adopted ex- cept that it might result in the defeat of the bill because of the severity of the punishment proposed. ssor and Wife Die In Suicide Pact to Escape Troubles Pirquet had been ill for two months after an operation. Police saw in these two things ex- planation of the suicide, which they at first believed to be death from car- bon monoxide poisoning. Pirquet was two years professor of pediatries at Johns Hopkins University, in America. He was an internationally known authority on diseases of chil- dren. He was vice president of the American-Austrian Society and former- ly was connected with the relief ad- mlinlslrnlon of Herbert Hoover in Aus- tria. When he failed of election to the presidency after the retirement of Hainisch, he made plans with his wife to go to the United States to live. Radio.Pro grnms—l-’age 12 DECOR ATEE N AN Inaugural Weather Prediction Again Refused by Bureau The Weather Bureau refused again today to hazard any pre- dictions of the weather on inau- guration day, beyond saying that there were no indications that a cold wave would reach the Cap- ital. Forecaster Mitchell said the sit- uation in the Washington area was such that it concelvably might be clear over the route of the inaugural parade, while near- by Maryland and Virginia had rainy weather, or vice versa, He added that a more definite state- ment would be forthcoming to- morrow. STOCK PRICES SOAR IN'HOOVER MARKET -Party Stages Demon- stration in Great Out- burst of Buying. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 1—The Hoover “pre-inaugural” rally on the New York Stock Exchange went ahead at full steam today, with two-score issues lifted to new high records on gains running from $1 to $25 a share. So great was the avalanche of buying orders that poured into the market, many of them for blocks of 5,000 to 35,000 shares, that the ticker fell 34 minutes behind the mar- ket by early afternoon. Total sales crossed the 3,000,000-share mark shortly after midday. The rally on the Stock Exchange spread to other securities markets throughout the country, and also to the so-called ‘“over-the-counter market,” where most of the bank and insurance shares are traded in. Common stock of the First National Bank, headed by the veteran capitalist, George F, Baker, jumped $600 a share to $7,100, making a gain of $1,350 a share in two days. Several other bank stocks advanced $5 to $50 a share. On the New York Stock Exchange Adams Express soared $25 to a new high at $585, or nearly $200 a share above the year's low. American Railway Express gained $11.75, Rossia Insur- ance, $11.25; Case Threshing Machine, $10, and Wright Aeronautical, $9. Good- year Rubber, Anaconda Copper, Radio (old stock), American Express, Spiegel Muy Stern, Johns Manville, General Electric, American_ Bosch Magneto, Union ~ Curbide, Kennecott Copper, American & Foreign Power and Curtiss Aeroplane all sold $5 to $8 a share above yesterday’s final quotations by early afternoon. Leading ‘commission houses were again crowded with customers, despite the fact that several large brokerage firms in- creased their margin requirements to 50 per cent, effective today. Large orders also poured over the private wires from Southern and Western points, and a marked increase also was reported in cable and radio business from abroad. PLANS NON-STOP FLIGHT. Mexican Aviator Is Expected Here Sunday Morning. An attempted non-stop flight from Mexico City to Washington is to be made tomorrow by a Mexican aviator named Pachico, according to a telegram received today by the National Aero- nautic Association. The telegram indi- cated that the flyer would leave the Mexican capital at 6:30 o'clock tomor- row morning and would arrive in this city some time Sunday morning. The National Aeronautic Association was re- quested to have an official on hand to time the arrival of the flyer, in accord- ance with international aviation contest rules. . HONOR FRIED AND CREW. Presentation of Medals Will Be Made Tomorrow. By the Associated Press. Life-saving medals of honor will be presented to Capt. George Fried, Chief Officer Harry Manning and members of the boat crew of the steamship America which rescued the crew of the sinking Italian steamer Florida. ‘The presentation will be made on board the America in New York harbor at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, it was announced by Admiral Billard, com- mandant of the Coast Guard. t EDUCATIONAL DRIVE FOR VOTE STARTS | Headquarters in National Press Building Opened. Radio Is Set Up. Educational activities to be con- ducted during the inaugural period in furtherance of the movement urging national representation for the District of Columbia were given an early start today with the opening of headquarters in a large office in the National Press Building, Fourteenth and F streets. Prominent Washingtonians who have been active in the now Nation-wide movement seeking for the District vot- ing representation in the Senate and House and the right to vote in presi. dential elections were at headquarters today and will be during the ensuing week to welcome visitors and scquaint them with the anomalous situation of a half million taxpaying Americans who are denied representation in their Gov- ernment, The large corner office has been fur- nished for the reception of out-of-town guests during the inauguration period, many of whom are believed as yet un- familiar with the disfranchisement of ‘Washington’s population. Local citizens also’ will he welcome at the headquar- ters, where literature describing Wash- ington's petition for representation will be distributed. Radio Set Up at Office. For_the entertainment of guests at the office also a radio has been set up for the purpose of carrying radio broadcasts of the official inaugural pro- grams, of a group of members of the League of Women Voters, under the direction of Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle. Tomor- row members of the Twentieth Century Club, under_the chairmanship of Mrs. George A. Ricker, will be in charge; Sunday, a group under the leadership of Mrs, Edna Johnston: Monday, mem- bers of the Women’s City Club, under the leadership of Mrs. Frank Hiram Snell, and Tuesday, Mrs. Edgar Meritt and members of the District of Colum- bia Federation of Women’s Clubs. Men prominent in local activities also will serve on the reception committees. Light refreshments will be served to visitors under arrangements made by Miss Florence Stiles, chairman of the committee on hosts and hostesses of the special group of the citizens' joint com~ mittee on national representation in charge of inaugural activities. William Wile is chairman of this special group. Lyon Makes Radio Address. As a preliminary to the opening of aclivities at the headquarters an appeal for increased support for the national representation movement was sounded last night by Gideon A. Lyon in an address over station WRC. ‘Tomorrow evening Theodore W, Noyes will speak over station WMAL and Monday eve- ning Jesse C. Suter will be heard in support of the movement over the same station. Describing the plan for the granting of representation to Washington and the justice of the petition, Mr. Lyon last night emphasized that the pro- posal does not anticipate disturbance | of the present form of government for | the District. “Washington does not ask that it be created into a State of the Union,” he explained, “but it does ask that its residents be given the status of citizens of a State solely in respect to participa- tion in the election of the National Executive and to representation in the body that makes its laws and levies its taxes and directs the expenditure of its money. “Washington does not ask that its present excellent system of municipal government be altered or modified. It seeks only to be given the right to send voting representatives to the Congress, 50 that it may, through those represent- atives, participate in all Jaw-making affecting its own welfare and also in the making of the laws of the country. “More populous than seven of the States, paying a larger share of the Federal taxes than 23 of the States, exceeding in military and naval quotas during the Great War seven of the States, Washington asks merely that it be rated as an American community in the essentials of representation and participation in the Federal elections. “Tested by every rule of logic, the proposed_measure of _enfranchisement (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) Maryland and The headquarters today is in charge | Frederic | LERY TOATTENPT 10 SHOW PALMIST CAVE CAPTAIN TPS Burlingame Supplied Data on Bitner Case, Presumably by Her, Board Told. HOMICIDE SQUAD CHIEF TELLS OF MURDER PROBE Defense Uses Prominent Citizens as Character Witnesses—"Parade” Is Protested by Bride. The first definite intimation of the defense to be offered by Capt. Guy E. Burlingame of the second police pre- cinct on charges growing out of his association with Mrs. Helen F. Blalock, seventh stree¢ palmist, cropped out at the trial today when Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, chief of the homicide squad, tes- tified that information which Capt. Burlingame received, presumably from Mrs. Blalock, figured in the investiga- tion of the murder last Thanksgiving day of Philbert Bitner, a filling station * employe. Mrs. Blalock was questioned on this point when she was testifying, but de- nied that she had given Capt. Burlin- game any information which led to ar- rests in the killing. Lieut. Kelly said he went to Capt. | Burlingame's office on the morning after | the shooting and was told that a coi- |ored man had been seen running into !a house on Seventh street between P | and Q streets. Capt. Burlingame, it was | sald, received this information between 11 and 12 o'clock on the night of the shooting and made an investigation on his own initiative. When Lieut. Kelly and other members of the homicide squad came to the precinct on the fol- lowing morning he furnished them with information resulting from this investi- gation, Searched House in Question. Acting on the information furnished by Capt. Burlingame, headquarters de- tectives went to the house in question, but found, after investigation, that none of its occupants had participated in the murder. Mrs. Blalock’s name was not men tioned in this testimony, but Defense Counsel Leahy has said he was iaying the groundwork for additional tosti- mony which will be offered at a later time to show that Capt. Burlingame regarded the palmist as a valuable source of information as to condi in his precinct, and that he cultivate: her acquaintance for this purpose. Support Burlingame. Prominent Washington business men, bankers, clergymen, District officials and the highest officers in the Police Department, today threw their support behind Capt. Burlingame. These representative citizens, appear- ing as character witnesses, pictured Capt. Burlingame as an officer who has the confidence and esteem of the com- munity—a man whose reputation, effi- ciency and effectiveness as a policeman is exceptional and a man whose record for truthfulness, integrity and morals ity had not been questioned until thi palmist made her charges. The procession of character witnesses continued from the opening of the trial until 11 o'clock, and after 11 had tes- tified, Chief Prosecutor William W. Bride raised an objection to what he described as “a continuous parade of character witnesses,” pointing out that Burlingame had not been charged with inefficiency and that it seemed to him to be an unnecessary waste of time and an undue waste of expense to the Dis- trict government to drag out the tria! by the introduction of so many charac- ter witnesses, “We will admit his efficiency as ar officer and that his reputation is goo} in the community,” “declared Bride. “Perhaps you could bring from 5,000 t4 10,000 persons here to testify before the board as to Capt. Burlingame's | character. It seems like a parade, and like the inaugural parade, it shoul limited.” R by Leahy Answers Bride. Chief Defense Counsel Willlam E. | Leahy immediately answered Bride with & declaration that the so-called “par- ade” of character witnesses was arranged [to offset the. “subtle attack” that had been made on Burlingame's char- acter, and that he regarded their tes- lmony to be essential and of utmost importance in this case, In view of this explanation, the prosecution withdrew its objection. “If it s possible to drive a dagger into the back of a man, it has been done in this case by one woman,” Leahy said in his argument. “He could not be the character of man that this woman has painted him to be on the witness stand and also be the type of man_these character witnesses have described.” Introduction of the large and promi- nent array of character witnesses was the first step of the defense in the presentation of its case, the prosecution having rested its case before adjourn- ment of the trial board yesterday after- noon, The character testimony will be the only move of the defense todey. Both the defense and the prosecution reached an agreement before the be- | ginning of the trial board session today to an adjournment in the trial from 0 o'clock this afternoon until 10 o'clock Tuesday morning. The trial board approved the arrangement, as its members have certain obligations to meet in connection with the presidential inaugural ceremony. Herbert L. Davis. a lawyer and former auditor of the District Supreme Court, headed the procession of character wit- ne: He said he had known Capt. Burlingame ery intimately” for more than 15 years and had intrusted him with highly important matters of “great delicacy.” Minister Testifies. The next witness was Rev. William S Abernethy, pastor of the Cavalry Baptist Church, who testified ‘to an acquaint- ‘anceship with Capt. Burlingame for the last six or seven years. “I personally have always regarded Capt. Burlingame of the highest honor,” said Dr. Aber- nethy. “Everybody that I have known have always regarded him as an officer of the highest sficiency.” Robert N. Harper, president of the District National Bank, the third wit- ness, said he had known Burlingame for from 12 to 15 years and that he had never heard anything said against him as a police officer and had never heard Virginia News Pages 10 and 11. his honesty, integrity or morality ques- tioned. | _Isaac Gans. former president of the (Continued on Page 2, Column 9