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22 ST REMAINS IN DOUBT Cclenel, Defeated in Oil Fight, Leaves Chicago for Unan- ! nounced Destination. CKICAGO, March 8.-Col. Robert W. Stewart, deposed head of the Standerd ! % Co. of Indiana, left Chicago today unced destination He apparently was noi going far however. for it was said at the com- | pany offices he would return in a few | weeks The coloncl, after months of hectic | fighting with John D. Rockefeller, ir.s. forces, sought a vacation and it was| oelieved he might gc S the Gulf or o Florida. He seen with his son, Rob- ert G. Stewart, president of the Pan- Petroleum & Transport Co., a | d . Oil subsidiary, before his de- | parture. May Not Get Pension. at the Standard vould not be | s 000-a-year pension Id be able | Pension en to em- ¢ 25 yea | The colonel was with the | o e Not even a guess as to what he might | do in the future was made at the ex- ecutive offices Stewart today had been replaced by Tdward G. Seubert as head of the $900.000,000 Standard Oil Co. of In- diana. Mr. Seubert, who has been president | ei the éompany, was not ‘given Stewart’s 25, chairman of the board, that olished at the direc- yesterday. Instead he as named exec e officer. with au- thority similar to that exercised by Col Stew retire on after i niing the younger | whick trolled ckholders' meet- | ing at which Col vart was removed frc mthe board of direct made o0 | attempt to name Stewart’s succassor as | exscutive. They were interested only, 1hay explained, in removal of Col. Stew- | art, whom Mr. Rockefeller had regarded | as “morally unfit” to continue direction i of the business. | Size of Vote 1s Surprise. The Stewart defeat had been fre predieted, but the size of it was a sur- orise. When the votz was counted, the | Tesult was: Shares voted for John D. Rockefeller, | jr.. 5510313 Shares voted for Col. Stewart, 2.954,- 286. T John D. Rock yesterday’s anv < | | | hus was Col. Stewart'’s 11 years' | service as executive head of the $900, 000,000 corporation ended. Col. Stew- art himself presided; and when the re- suit was announced—a defeat more swecping than even his adversaries had dreamed—he smiled. Winthrop W. Aldrich of New York, brother-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, jr. and his personal representative in the fight against Stewart, was on his| feet instantly, with congratulations on Col. Stewart’s fairness in the conduct of ‘the me 3 In a way the result was a paradox. ‘The vote was nearly two to one against Col. Stewart, but the individual share- holdes stood two to one behind him, z. Shareholders for John D. Rockefeller, | r.. 15.204. Shareholders for Col. Stewart, 31,336. | Only 17 of the 7,901 employe-stock- | holders voted against Col. Stewart, it was annoynced. “It would be idle for me to sa leave the Standard Oil without regret.” said Stewart, “Its affairs’ haye been my very life. I have seen it grow un- der the present administration from a $167,000,000. corporation with 4,620 stockholders, to practically a bi dollar corporation, with 56,293 stock- holders, One cannot disassociate him- self from such an intimacy without a wrench.” Stephens Also Defeated. “With Col. Stewart to defeat went L. L Stephens, general counsel, and in this defeat the issue between Rocke- feller and Stewart was sharply defined. The fight against Stewart had been predicated upon the Rockefeller belief ihat Col. Stewart was “morally unfit” 10 continue the direction of the com- pany because of his connection with the Continental Trading Co. deal. Stephens knew of Col. Stewart’s handling of the Continental bonds long before it be- | came a matter for investigation by the United States Senate. His removal from the board yesterday was regarded as having been brought about for that reason. Stephens, however, will be retained | as general counsel. The new directorate as chosen yes- terday, is: ‘Willlam A. Burton (former president), Melvin A. Traylor, Thomas 8. Cook, Gentry Cash, C. J.° Barkdull, R. E. Humphreys, Ames Ball, E. J. Bullock, R. H. McElroy, Allan Jackson and Ed- ward G. Seubert. The first four are new members. They were chosen to fill vacancies created by the defeat of Stew- art and Stephens and by death. NORRIS AND NYE ARE PLEASED. See Evidence of “Cleaning Up” in Stewart’s Ouster. The -ousting of Robert W. Stewart from the chairmanship of the Standard il Co. of Indiana’s board of directors ‘was gratifying to Senator Norrls, Re- publican, of Nebraska, the author of the lution initiating the inquiry into the 1 industry which led to Stewart's el with the Senate and his sub- quent court trials. ‘I am glad of it,” said Norris. “It is a good sign that American business is ot willing to put up with men like ewart I consider the defeat of wart a vindication of the Senate committee and of good government.” The result of the company’s stock- holders’ vote was characterized as “most sing” by Senator Nye, Republican, North Dakota, chairman of the Sen- | e public Jands committee, which ques- | tioned Stewart in connection with the | Continental Trading Co.’s oil profits in ae Teapot Dome lease. The refusal to answer these questions led to Stewart’s said Senator accomplish- e result is indicativ : “of another very la men: through the investigations con ted by the Senate. hese investiga ne, in additic.. to returning to the Government large sums of money and | property. have seemingly awakened a new sense of decency in the oil indus- try which dictates the necessity of a | P THE' STAR. WASHINGTON. D C. FRIDAY: MARCH 8. 1929. FFO T 'Witness Quotes Staples as Saying Legisiators and Others Were at Work. Continued From First Page.) pies an office in the same suite with F. R. Noel reported the disappearance of two im- tant files (he defense planned to use, was the fitst witness. He testified that Burlingame and Mrs. Blalock came to the office about a year and a half ago and the latter appered to be in an angry mood. He said while she was there he saw her tear up some papers and scatier them about the room. papers, he said, he found them to be Noel had prepared for the palmist. Pruner also supported Noel's test mony that the two files which con- tained papers in the case of Schirmer the Gibson subcommittee of se and correspondence oetween Mrs. Blalock and Noel. whom he repre- d pr ionally one time, had disappea; cd_trom (he office. H he had made a but had been unable to find them Leahy asked Pruner when he last saw Mrs. Blalock in the office. He re- plied that it was the time when she tore up ' the .papers. Policeman C. C. Niblock of the fenth precinct, a former mechanic at the de- funct Police Repair Shop, testified that on September 22, 1927, he and Poli ond precinct station to start the patrol wagon and while there saw & woman in Capt. Burlingame's office sitting at the typewriter. )'%eom man Thomspon next took the stand and corroborated Niblock’s testi- mony. He went further, however, and said that the woman in the captain’s office was “pecking” on the typewriter. Maj. Donald A. Davison, chairman of the special trial board, asked Thompson if there were any distinguishing char- acteristics apout the woman that he was able to recall. He declared she wore & hat drawn tight about her head and he could not distinguish the color of her hair. called. Prosecutor Fowler immediately raised an objection to the witness be< cause he said Miller had been in the trial board room and had heard some of the testimony, when all other wit- nesses had been excluded. Chairman Davison overruled ‘the objection. Miller then told the trial board about a galvanized tub containing dishes and aluminum ware he sent to Burlingame’s home more than a year ago. The ar- ticles in the tub, Miller said, were given to him by a client who left Washington and who had later written to him sug- gesting that if he had no use for the diches and aluminum ware he should send them to Capt. Burlingame be- : cause the officer had befriended him | with a small loan. i Asked About Driver's Identity. Leahy asked Miller if he was able to identify positively the driver of the truck whom he hired to carry the tub to Burlingame’s house as Charlie Green, | the colored expressman Mrs. Blalock | had testified she had engaged to deliver a galvanized tub of gifts to the cap- tain’s house. Miller replied that he saw Charlie Green while he was on the witness stand at the trial and thought ‘that he was the same man whom he hired to haul the tub of dishes and aluminum ware. { Miller's story corroborated substan- | tially the testimony of Capt. Burlingame when he was on the witness stand. The officer testified that instead of a tub of unwanted gifts which Mrs. Blalock said she returned to him, the tub that came to his home was one containing dishes and aluminum ware | which the man to whom he had lent a small .sum of money had sent him through Attorney Miller in appreciation. Policeman E. L. Gibbons, described b: Mrs. Blalock as a “perfect gentleman,’ took the. witness stand and declared that about nine months ago the b told him Capt. Burlingame had “done her a great service in handling her real ;s:ra&e and hed been awfully kind to Gibbons, who is stationed at the sec- ond precinct, said that he has known Mrs. Blalock for about 14 years. Since Capt. Burlingame came to the second precinct, he has seen Mrs. Blalock in the station house on four or five dif- ferent occasions, and has seen her sitting at the typewriter table in the | captain’s office. He said, however, that | hemhns never seen her operate the mu- | chine. i Told of Plans to Leave. He also said that Mrs. Blalock told him some time ago that she was plan- ning to leave Washington for Chicago because she was experiencing too much difficulty in getting & palmist license here. Gibbons testified that Mrs. Blalock told him about 10 vears ago that she was very much afraid of her husband | and that she feared he might try to dispose of her jewelry. On two occ: sions, he said, he arrested the husband | on complaints made by Mrs. Blalock. Gibbons insisted that he never heard Mrs. Blalock say anything detrimental to Capt. Burlingame. He denied that she ever toid him the captain wrote any love letters to her or that she ever gave any indications that she was afraid of him. He described the palm- | ist as being highly nervous and excit- | able and said that he had investigated | at least 25 of her complaints that burglars were trying to break into her establishment. | Sergt. N. O. Helmes, also of the sec- ond precinct, told of going to Mrs. Bla- lock’s place of business on one occa- sion with Gibbons to investigate a com- plaint made by her that some one had stolen a pistol and a ring from her | apartment. He said they arrested a col- | ored man on information furnished by her, but that the ring and pistol were | Subsequently found under a mattress in her room. He said he accompanied Capt. Bur- | lingame on at least 500 raids, and that | on many of these the capatin stopped | at 1504 Seventh street and procured | slips from Mrs. Blalock. He also said that he had scen the palmist in the | | station house a number of times and has | seen her writing on Capt. Burlingame's vler cross-cxamined Sergt. Holmes | for more than Jf an hour, but failed hake his testimony regarding the lips and the operation of the type- writer by Mrs. Blalock. The last witness called before the |noon recess was Policemen G. Thayer, former raiding partner of Capt. Bur- clean-up within the industry itself if it enjoy any measure of the confi- > of the people and Government. , Democrat, of Mon- f the Scnate lands | ke no com- | i to m mert on CHANG COMING TO U. S. Centon Aviation Chief Starts Siz Months’ Tour March 29. C/NTON, China, March 8 (#) — Gen. W. J. Chang, cbief of the Canton overnment Aviation Bureau, will sail on March 29 for a six-month tour of tnhe United States and Central and South America. will devote three months in the ed States to study of the latest de- 3 ments of commercial air transport He has been con ned to buy thre non-passenger 1 ment for expansion of the Canlon go amment’s air program. |lingame. His testimony was substan- tially the same as that given by the of- ficers who preceded him on the stand. said he had seen Mrs. Blalock in the station house on several occasions | and that he had s her actually writ- | ing on the typewriter there. Policeman Robest J. Allen of the | third precinct was calied late yesterday afterncon by the defcnse as a witness. Allen first attracted attention to him- | self by his criticisms of alleged brutal tactice employed in certain police pre- cincts during a speech before a meet- ing of the Policemen’s Association: sev- eral /months ago ! Leéahy quizzed Allen concerning a juncheon * conversation- yesterday with several newapaper men, in the course | of which the policeman was alleged to | the attorney who yesterday | After | collecting and piecing together these | duplicate tax bills and a lease which Mt. | arch for these files | - | Arthur | man Thompson were called to the sec- i tion in 193 | them.” CAPTAIN CLAIMED | { new administration. | President Hoover was photographed with Vice Pi Only Henry L. Stimson, selected as Secretary of State, was not present. F. Brown, Postmaster General; James W. Good, Secretary of War; Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State; President Hoover: Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, and William D. Mitchell, Attorney General. of Labor; Robert ¥. Lament, Secretary of Commerce; M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture; Vice President Curtis; resident Cui DR BARTON BOUBT SMITH AD PENALTY [No Echo of Campaign in Southern Legislative | Races Seen. Attorney Robert I. Miller was nexi, | One of the two organizers of the | “Asheville Conferencc" that touched off | the South's revoit from the Democraiic | presidential nominee last Summer—Dr. A. J. Barton of the Southern Baptict convention—doubts that Southern vot- lers will seek to penalize Southern Sen- ators and Representatives who support- ed former Gov. Smith. Several of the more t | Southern Senators come to the end of | their terms in 1931, and next Fall will be called on to campaign for re-election. Dr. Barton doubts that any of them will | be retired to private life. 3 3 “Of course, the personal equation will | | enter into any contests that may de- velop,” he s “The Southern people are conservative, however, and I doubt that the people will be inclined to pen- alize men with good records just be cause they ran counter to their convic tions in the presidential campaign. I do not doubt that some of the Senators and Representatives will have opposi 1 that might not have de- veloped had they taken a different course, but I do not think the opposi- tion will be serious enough to®defeat Ardent Prohibitionists. Dr. Barton organized the Asheville Conference with Bishop James Cannon, jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in Virginia. The two mén, rdent prohibitionists for more’than 20 years, appeared before the platform com- mittee of the national Democratic party at the Houston convention and urged | adoption of a bone-dry plank. When Gov. Smith announced his prohibition views in a notable telegram to the con: vention, immediately following his nomination, Bishop Cannon and Dr. Barton determined upon the program | that led to the organization of opposi: tion. Dr. Barton is chairman of the executive committee of the Anti-Saloon League, and is office secretary of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. s His views may be sald to represent the liberal element among the leaders who turned from the Democratic can- didates. “It may be that Democratic party leaders have not learned a lesson from the campaign and it is true that some of the public men who were in a most ;ml?nrra.snng position last Summer and al Gives Ticket Two States. “If they have-not learned, they are preparing themselves for a destructive defeat. It appears to me that the con- tinuance of John J. Raskob as national chairman means that former Gov. Smith is being groomed for the nomi- nation in 1932, possibly. with Gov. Roosevelt of New York on the ticket. If that comes to pass, I am confident not a single Southern State will vote ior them. I would give that ticket only two States, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The first dose always is the hardest to swallow. The South now sees four of its States in the Republican column, and realizes that its voters are Tespectable, and next time they would follow as sheep follow a leader over a fence.” ‘The 10 Senators in the States of the old South whose terms expire in 1931 are: Heflin of Alabama, Robinson of Arkansas, former Gov. Smith’s running mate; Trammell of Florida, Harris of Georgia, Ransdell of Louisiana, Harri- son of Mississippi, Simmons of North Carolina, who is not expected to rurn again; Smith of South Carolina, Glass of Virginia and Sheppard of Texas. EXPERT SAYS RESERVE SYSTEM YIELDS RULE Money Market Controlled Now by Stock Exchange Traders, Warburg Avers, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 8-Paul M. Warburg, one of the fathers. of the Fed- eral Reserve system, today said the Fed- eral Reserve, through its failure to check speculaiive credit in the past year, has relinquished leadership in the money market to Stock Exchange operators. These operators have now for many months, he s2id, governed the flow of money not only in the United States but in the principal parts of the world. “The banking fraternity,” he as- serted, “would be well advised to antici- pate radical congressional proposals by taking the lead in seeking the lines along which reform may be brought about.” 50 'Anton;obiles Burned. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 8 (#).— Fire of undetermined origin razed the Howard Motor Car Co. Agency Build- ing and destroyed 50 automobiles here early today, The estimated loss was | $200,000. have said he “knew from various sources that attempts had been made to frame | Capt. Burlingame.” Allen de; these words, declaring t id, or meant fo say, w } own mind fthat had been made, uch at- tempts nied using | Fy what. he i ¢y he felt | open end of the Wishkah Bridge near | Five, in Auto, Drown. ABERDEEN, Wash., March 8 (%) — fi men were drowned and three oth- saved when two sedans drove off an here early today. One of the autcmatic gates failed to fypction, prominent | went too far and attacked the integrity of their constituents,” he says. | rtis and his cabin Standing, left to right: James J. Davis, Secretars Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, and Charles Francis Adauis, Sec: ‘Prohibition Is “Intolerable.” Says Lamont.' ‘But He Will “Play the Game™ With Hoover Robert Patterson Lamont of Chicago, President Hoover's new Secretary of Commerce, told newspaper men at the White House today that he had re- signed from the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment and intends to “play the game” with the Hoover ad- ministration. The fact that Arthur M. Hyde of Mis- souri, Secretary of Agriculture, had been made an honorary member of the Wom- en’'s Christian Temperance Union, was | followed yesterday by the revelation | that Secretary Lamont was a director in | the anti-dry organization which has led the fight for repeal of the prohibition | emendment. | OBSERVERS FIND ECHO OF KELLOGG TREATY IN LEAGUE OF NATIORS | United States is interested in observance | of the Kellogg pact and that if any sig- | natory resorted to war in violation of its | previsions American sympathies would | lean toward an economic blockade of the | aggressor and perhaps to participation | in financial assistance to the victim or | threatened victim. { ‘The Council of the League, meeting in private session today, declded to send | the question of the adhesion of the | United States to the World Court of | | Justice to the commission of jurists| which will meet on March 11 to consider | revision of the World Court statutes. | The Councll lincreased the powers of | the committee so as to enable it, in) considering revision of the court's! statutes, to examine the pro] s | which _have been brought forward by | Elihu Root, noted American jurist. ‘The question will be officially han- | | dled at a public session of the Council | tomorrow, as that body wishes to accord | | it the public discussion it should have | {and to give public testimony of its| | pleasure over the American initiative. | It is understood that Sir Austen Chamberlain, the British foreign secre- tary, will introduce the necessary reso- | | lution which is now being drafted. | | The committee of jurists will be| | empowered to take up the question of | American membership in its entirety. This includes consideration of the | American note to the powers in Febru- | ary and the Root formula for the settle- | ment of difficulties raised by the Amer- | ican reservation concerning advisory opinions. Hitherto the mandate of the jurists had been merely to study the | statutes of the court and to determine | whether they required modification in the light of past experience. | Today's preliminary decision implies that the committee’s power woull | increased so that it would be authorized | to submit & new pratocol fixing the con- dition of American adhesion. This pro- tocol would be a substitute for the one | adopted at an international conferencc ! in 1926, which the United States never | | accepted, because it did not accord a | | desired veto privilege in requests for | | advisory opinions. | Mr. Root’s formula attacks this diffi- culty from a new angle by creating the | | machinery for the discussion of concrete | cases and is recelving increasing sup- port here. Mr. Root today began a conference with Latin American members of the | Councll, at which he presented an ex- | | tion of his formula for settlement | of American adhesion to the World Court. | | { | TELLS WEDDING PLAN Dramatist to Marry Carlotta Mon- terey After Wife's Divorce, Communication Discloses. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, March 8.—The Herald- | Tribune today said that Eugene O'Neill, dramatist, had disclosed in & letter to a friend that he would marry Carlotta Monterey, actress, a¢ soon as his pres- ent wife obtalns a divorce. | O'Neill has been abroad for a year land now is in France after a irip through the Orlent, during which his attempts at secrecy attracted attention. O'Neill's first marriage, to Kathleen Jenmins, ended in & divorce in 1812. His present wife was Mrs. Agnes Boulton Burton when they were married in 1918. They have two children. ‘The Herald-Tribude quoted his letter | as follows: “Carlotta and I are going to be mar- ried as soon as my wife d ” O'Neill writes in his letter. ginning to realize how much the journey did give me. When I was on it, with inew faces, places, impressions of all | { sorts banging against me one after an- | other, I was too confused to sort them out. It i8 only now that they're as- suming their unique values and appear clearly. * * * The reporters in Shang- | hai got on my trail to show me up as a | | fake masquerading as O'Neill. Can you | { beat it? | | “I've started work again. One reason came back so soon was I had a strong 'hunch I'd_never write a line east of | Suez and I felt a longing to get back on the job.” { | | In San Francisco private ciiizens and Secretary Lamont made his statement ' changed his mind. EUGENE O’NEILL NOTE | \are to occur in the assistant secre- | | the mayor offer rewards for the arrest of traffic law violators, * . et W [ " to newspaper men as he was leaving the White House at the conclusion of | the President’s first meeting with the cabinet. He said he had been requested | at one time by a friend to join the association. “We all do some things for friendship.” he said. “It was because of friendship that I joined this asso- ciation.” He added, however, that he had re- signed from the Assoclation some time 2go. At the time he joined the anti-dry organization, Secretary Lamont said, he | considered the situation in this coun- try intolerable as a result of the pro- | hibition law and added that he had not HOOVER AND AIDES CONFER ON MEXICO BORDER SITUATION | ( tinued From First Page.) Provisional President Portes Gil and former President Calles. | Mr. Morrow held a rather lengthy | telephone cqnference yesterday with | Secretary Kellogg, fully informing him | of the situation as viewed by the Mexi- can government and of its officials” tentions as far as disclosed in connec: tion with the rebellion. ALL PRESENT BUT STIMSON. Hoover Confers With Lord Over Fiscal Relations. Al] members were present at the cab- inet meeting “today ‘except Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State, who is en route from Manila. His chair is oc- cupled meanwhile by Frank B. Kel- logg, Who has been in frequent confer- ence with the Chief Executive on the revolt in Mexico. | i | | | | | Curtis Attends Meeting. | thd Attorney General Mitchell was the first of the new cabinet officers to reach the White House executive offices, going in 10 minutes before the meeting hour, 10:30 a.m,, closely followed by Robert P. Lamont, Secretary of Commerce. Secretary Kellogg, a large sheaf of papers under his arm, walked over from his offices in the State Department just across Executive avenue from the White House. Vice President Curiis went in a| minute later, having driven from his | offices at the Capitol. He sat in on the cabinet session by s] 1 invitation of the President, extended only a few days before the election last November. Secretaries Wilbur, Adams, Hyde and | Davis and Postmaster General Brown arrived almost _simultaneously with James W. Good, Secretary of War, com- pleting the circle two minutes ahead of meeting_time. Andrew W. Mellon, the veteran Sec- | retary of the Treasury, followed his usual custom of walking from his office only a block away, entering a side gate to the White House grounds and reac] ing the executive offices by way of a rear door. Confers With Lord. ‘Before meeting with his cabinet, the President had the usual cabinet day dis- cussion of fiscal affairs with Brig. Gen. Lord, -director of the Budget, and re- ceived Senators Warren of Wyoming and Capper of Kansas and Glenn B. Skipper, Republican national commit- teeman for Florida. Senator Warren called to pay his re- spects, while Senator Capper recom- mended the elevation of Federal Dis- trict Judge George T. McDermott of ke to the bench of the new Tenth Circuit Court of A E After his talk th the President Mr. Skipper said he had discussed with him the subject of patronage and also the plan for handling patronage in the South reputed to have been devised by Horace A. Mann, Wash attorney who directed the Hoover campaign in | the South. | Recess Appointments Await Hoover. Besides filling a dozen vacancies that taryships of the various departments, | President Hoover will be obliged to make a number of recess appointments, judicial and others, including two mem- bers of the Radio Commission. Information obtained today was that | the new Chief Executive would take independent action in the case of all appointments, and that consequently it did not follow that he would give 1 cess commissions to all of those se- lected by President Coolidge and whose nominations failed of action by the Senate at the last 3 C. M. Jansky, jr., of Minnesota and Arthur Batcheller of Massachusetts were the Coolidge nominees for the Radio Commission who failed of con- firmation. Whether Mr. Hoover will give them recess appointments or select two other men remains to de- termined. sty THREE FLYERS BURNED | TO DEATH IN CRASH| | Plane Catches Fire in Mississippi. | Aviators Die in Fall. By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 8.—Jesse ‘Windham, chief pilot at the local air- and two other aviators were ort, g\lmed to death at Oakland, Miss., to- | by day, when their piane caught fire in the air and crashed. Reports received here listed the other victims as Bill Dantel ang Moggan Feir et on the White House lawn this morning after the first cabinet meeting of the Secretary Kellogg is acting for him. | heartaches of his years in the White Iy, | south grounds. | dictating to a stenographer. i his | | i Left to right, seated: Walter ary of the Navy. —Associntec. Press Photo. O0LIDGE'S ARTICLE I { | i [ ECHOES SAD SCENE Former President Dwells Son’s Death in Story for Magazine. | capitol | short session, limited, so far as possible, | his call for the congressional meeting By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, March 8--The most important private citizen of the United | States appeared before the Nation as a writer yesterday, three days after he | retired from the White House to No. | 21 Massasoit street, Northampton, Mass..| The first of a serles of articles on his career and his life in the White House by Calvin Coolidge appears in the April number of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, which went on sale today. Mr. Coolidge is.also under contract to write articles for the American Maga- zine and for the Ladies’ Home Journal. At 10 o'clock one Saturday morning about six weeks ago, Ray Long, editor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, was ushered into President Coolidge’s office in Washington. The President handed him a sheaf of papers. “I've got something done,” he said. T don't know how good it is, but any- way it's here.” That “something” was Mr. Coolidge's story of his years in the White House. The outstanding passage in the install- ment that appears in the Cosmopolitan today is his description of the death of his son, Calvin, jr., and the cost in House. 2 “My own participation in’the cam- paign of 1924 was delayed,” Mr. Coal- idge wrote, “by the death of my son Calvin, which occurred on the 7th of July. He was a boy of much promise, proficient in his studies, with a scholar- mind, who had just turned 16. ‘He had & remarkable insight into ings. “The day I became President he had just started to work in a tobacco field. When one of his fellow laborers said to him: ‘If my father was President I would not work in a tobacco fleld,’ Cal- vin replied: ‘If my father were your father you would. Cites Letter of Calvin. “After he was gone some one sent us & letter he had written about the same time to a young man who had con- gratulaied him on being the first boy in the land. To this he had replied that he had done nothing, and so did not merit the title, which would go ‘to some boy who had distinguished himself through his own actions.’ “We do not know what might have happened to him under other circum- stances, but if I had not been Presi- dent he would not have raised a blister on his toe which resulted in blood poisoning, playing lawn tennis in the “In his suffering he was asking me to make him well. I could not. When he went the power and glory of the presidency went with him. The ways of Providence are often beyond our understanding. It seemed to me that the world had need of the work that it was probable he could do. I do not ow why such a price was exacted for occupying the White House. The first article described Mr. Cool- idge's entrance into the White House on the death of President Harding and some of his early experiences as Presi- dent. The work, says Mr. Long, is really an autoblography. Mr. Long described today how he went about persyading Mr. Coolidge to write the story. “When he made the announcement that he did not choose to run again, in the Summer of 1927," Mr. Long said, “I immediately wrote him—he was then in the Black Hills—suggesting that he write for us. _As soon as he was back in ‘Washington I went down to see him. Cites Lack of Confidence. “I got mo direct answer. Mr. Cool- | fie had no confidence in his ability to te. i “Then I decided to keep after him. ! Every 60 days from that time I went down to Washington to see him. Still T could not get him to promise. “Finally I was called to the White | House on Saturday, January 25—about | six weeks ago. I arrived there at 10| o'clock in the moriing. When I went | in the President logked at me, grinned and sald: | “‘Mr. President,” I replied, ‘beneath | this business suit beats the & H Canadian mounted policeman. down to get my man.’ | “After a few more words. Mr. Cool- idge handed me a sheaf of papers. T've | got something done,” he said. ‘T don't’ hk:nw how good it is, but anyway it's | = e com: “He then had-me go into the cabinet | room to read it. But before I went in, he said: ‘If yon're noi. pleased with it, none of the things we've said need bind you.’ Mr.” Long said that Mr. Coolidge wrote his story first in long band, later AX SLAYER IS FREED. { SPOKANE, Wash, March 8 ).— Sidney Sloane, who spent 22 years in the penitentiary and an insane asylum for killing his .father with an ax, was Il,m by & Superior Court jury last Sloan was committed to the peniter- tiary as criminally insane in 1906. The jury found him “not guilty of murder reason of insanity.” He was in !Jfistice Holmes | Congratulated on 88th Anniversary |Only Member of Supreme Bench Who Keeps Per- sonal Written Record. | { | | By the Associated Press Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes re- ceived the congratulations of his asso- ciates on the Supreme Court and other friends today on his eighty-eighth birthday. | During the past year he has besn | one of the most reguier attendants upon the Supreme Court sessions Of all the justices he is the only one who keeps & personal written r {of every proceeding. He notes every motion made and order entere: court, and during the oral argument cf cases keeps a record in a book of rach salient point made by counsel and a list of the cases cited by them. This book is provided with a lock, the justice keeping its contents for his own per- sonal assistance. A new book is pro- vided for each term of couri, and should the public ever gain 2ct the books which have accumuwated ing his long service on the bench much data would be found. MANY PROBLEMS ARISE IN SESSION Limiting Legislation to Farm and Tariff Difficult Task for Leauers. the Associated Press A host of new subjects have taken their place alongside of farm relief and | tariff revision on the'tentative programs | of Congressional leaders for the extra | session of Congress called by President | Hoover for April 15. Mr. Hoover and the leaders at the | have been contemplating a By to farm relief and the related topic of upward tariff revision. But the President had no sooner issued yesterday than several other legislative problems cropped up in the talk at the Capitol. ‘At the Senate there was discussion of consideration during the forthcoming term of rgilroad consolidation and a reconsideration of America’s reserva- tions to its adherence to the World Court. Over in the House, where the adn®1- istration had counted on checking any general legislative tendencies in the Senate, it developed that some mem- bers were contemplating the considera- tion of reapportionment of the House, a census bill and a measure for repeal of the national origins provision of the immigration act. House Can Limit Program. | . The House, because of its strict rules, {is in a position to limit the legislative program of the session by restricting the organization of committees. How- ever, it was admitted there that if the Senate should” send it any legislation the bills could be taken up there with- out reference to committee under a sus- pension of the rules. It has been the hope of Senator Wat- son of Indiana, the leader of the Senate, where the Republicans have an in- creased majority over the last session, that the Senate should consider farm relief while the House is up the tariff revision measure. Now re are indications that the House leaders want to start the work on both the tariff and farm bills. This would leave the Senate without anything to do at the start, Senator Watson is not inclined to take up a House reapportionment bill before the House acts on that measure, although last session the House did approve a mand for. of the measure reported last session by Senator Fess, Republican, Ohio, to provide for volun- tary consolidations of the railroads un- til the Senate gets one of the farm bills from House. Proponents of the World Court start- ed the discussion yesterday of recon sidering at the extra session the modi- fication of the Senate’s reservation number five, worked out by Elihu Root on the rules committee of the court. This Senate reservation has never been accepted by the world powers. It is believed by Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montans, that the formula worked out by Mr. Root for getting the nations to- gether on ‘qpis reservation requires Senate approval. Suspicion Is Confirmed. Chairman Snell of the House rules committee confirmed the suspicions that if the Senate should send to it the bills authoriging & census, providing for re- apportionment of the House or repealing the national origins provision of the immigration act, House leaders would be inclined to take them up under a suspension of the rules. ~All three propositions were passed last session by the House, but went unacted upon in the Senate. ‘The new immigration quotas provided by the national origins clause will go into effect July 1 unless Congress acts. Mr. Hoover advocated repéal of this clause in his campaign, but his party is divided upon it. Chairman Snell concurred with Mr. | Hoover’s view that the clause should be | repealed. - Republican House leaders feel confi- | dent, Snell sald, that if the Senate | passed a reapportionment bill satisfac- tory to the House there would be no difficulty in obtaining final congres- stonal action. An estimated sum of $30,000,000 would be needed for the taking of the 1930 census. Mr. Snell expressed fhe i i | cord | d by the ! {noon unti! 10 p.m. daily {ir. bill. Therefore, he may yield to a de- | consideration HOME S PROPOSED FORD. C.VOTE BOD | Permanent Headquarters fo National Representation Committee Studied. Plans for establ manent, headquarter work of the joint committee on matic representation for the District of lumbia will be studied | tion taken last night by committee of the organ: After considerable di educational work nece i the attention of che gress the denial of citizenship righ | the people of the District. a resolu | was adopted deciaring that it was sense of the joint committee permanent headquarters shc maintained. with s ¢ provision conduct.ng it " Office Open Until 10 PV, There apparently being & Wide di gence of opinion o how th quarters office uld be co: the scope of the work to be unde a motion was chairman t The action of the executive however, was a definite e the advisability of ms: manent office in Was] on the work for national re s The meeting was held at the den stration headquatters establisbed: ing the inaugural peried in the tional Press Building. which at wide attention from the thousan. visitors during the past week auspices of the special commit charge. the office will rem: open throug current week. 3 In the absence of Chairman Th ore W. Noyes, John Joy Edson presidgd a the executive committee meeting. The was a large attendance oi membey Visitors Sign Petitions. Frederic Willlam Wile, chairn the demonstration committee 1 ted a report, through Dorsey secretary of the executive cc tee, on results of the educatior paign conducted here in-furthe the work for national representdiion Mr. Wile's report referred to the suce of the campaign and the fact that mor than 1,000 persons from 20 States had signed the petitions. The report alco expressed appreciation of the services rendered by members of the commitis and the volunteer workers who have sisted in maintaining the headquarters. i O s HONDURAS HOLDS TRIO OF SANDINO OFFICERS Génernl and Two C;lonels Who Crossed Border Not to Be Allowed to Return to Nicaragua. By the Associated Press MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 8.-- One general and two colonels from the camp of Augusto Sandino, Nicaraguan rebel leader, arrived at Danli yester- day and were sent to Tegucigalpa. They will not be permitted to return to Nica- . ‘The Honduran government maintains garrisons on the border and any rebels crossing are arrested and not pemitted to return. ‘The minister of war reports having received reliable information that 140 Sandino followers were holding a posi- tion at Calpules, a few miles on the other side of the border. (Recent dispatches from Managua stated that Sandino followers were be- lieved to be crossing the border.-into Honduras.) AMERICAN U. GJRL TEAM IN BOSTON FOR DEBATE Defeated Last Night, Trio Accept Another Test Without Change of Subject. ‘The American University girls de- bating team, which last night lost a n, will mee ton* University tonight in the Hub city. o e local g will take tonight the same side of the same question they debated last night, the negative-of the question: “Resolved, that the sent Jury system should be abolithed.” " The Cebaters are: Pauline Frederick, Ethel- wyn Hine and Katheryn Heath. The team is accompanied by Miss Mary Louise Brown, dean of women, and Arthur S..Flemming, debates cosch. BANDIT GETS $10,000 BY DYNAMITING ‘BANK By the Associated Press. - 5 HAMPTON, S. C. Mafch 8.-An unidentified robber invaded this town at about 3 o'clock this marning.~dyna- mited the safe of the Hamptefi-hoan & Exchange Bank and escaj in an automobile with loot - estinfdfed =: #1508, Block id . S. Blocker, & residenf, Wwho wa awakened by the blast, wentttfl e fron rch of his home near the bank o vestigate and was shot ‘at by the ::tndtt as he sped away. 'He was not ‘The shot aroused other residents, bu the robber had disappeared-in the di rection of Savannah before the: mobilize for a chase. The. bafk's loss wag said to have been covered by insur- ance. Western Ohio Feels Quake. BELLEFONTAINE, Ohlo, Merch belief that there would be no tendency i on the part of the House Republican | leaders fo defeat such a measure, be- | cause if it is not passed the census | taking probably would be delaved until | late mext year. | e (Prom the 5:30 Bdition of Yesterday's Star.) D. C. MEN INDICTED ON U.S TAX CHARGE Frank Russel White, architect, and | Z. Thomas Goldsmith, real estaie op- erator, both of this city, were indicted by a Federal grand.jury in Baltimore today on a charge of failure to file in- come tax returns and to pay income tax for the year 1926. Elmer L. Irey, head of the special intelligence unit, Internal Revenue Bureau, which de- veloped the cases, was advised of the indictments, and it was learned from Wililam C. Purnell, assistant district attorney in Baltimore, who handled the cases, that bench warrants would be sworn out this afternoon and sent here to be served. VESSEL TOTAL LOSS. Schooner Early Bird Grounded, Coast Guard aves Crew. Coast Guard headquarters wae today informed that the schooner Early Bird had gone ashore and was a complete prison for six years, and then was re- moved to the State Insarie Asylum, where he had been held until he started * fight in court for frecdom. loss as Asshteague, Va. The crew of five men was rescued by the aid of the Asshiesgue Coast Guard Station, Teb . h® (#).—An earth shock, which was felt a. far west as the Indiana line, rumbled across Western Ohio this morning. The tremor was feit here at 4:07 o'clo and, although buildings were she and furniture was shifted throughout the area, no damage was reported. YOUR INCOME TAX. No. 33. inforr source” provisi act of 1928, all persons ever capacity acting quired to repori o the commis- sioner of Internal Revenue pay- ments of fixed or determinable income to others during the tax- able year of $1,500 if the recipi- ent of such payments is single. If the recipient is married, report need not be made if the payments aggregate less than $3,500. If the marital status of the payee. is unknown to the payor, or if the marital status of the payee changed during the year, the payee is considered a single per- son for the purpose of filing an information return. A separate return of information for each employe is required of employ- ers. The requirement is not lim- ited to periodical payments, but a single payment must be re- ported. Information return fudg ehecked with t return of the taxpes ' whom such payments are m.. During the year 1928 many deinquent returns were ‘secured as a result of the examination of informa- tion returns. 2 care Aividusi r