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STOCK PRICES HELD FIRM BY POWERFUL INTERESTS IN STREET (Continued From First Page.) IMRS. HODGES WINS TITLE ON 197H HOLE Stages Amazing Comeback on Columbia Course to De- ILEIGH ENTERTAINS ORATORS TONIGHT Reception Will Be Given at! Virginia Home of Con- EDUCATION BOARD ABOLITION URGED D. C. Government Research Group Recommends Changes PRATT CHANGES i Takes Off Davis and Stott in/satements from leading bankers and business executives. | Answer to Request of Heavy buying orders continued to in Report. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The most important recommendation made by the Institute for Government Research with respect to the adminis- tration of school Affairs in the District of Columbia in its comprehensive re- port on & proposed reorganization of the government of the municipality of ‘Washington Is that the present Board of Education and the board of trustees of the Public Library be abolisned. I proposes that the entire administration of the school and library affairs vested in a single department of edu- cation, with the same status as the other administrative departments, hav- ing at ite head a director of education, responsible for the conduct of this de- partment. Laurence F. Schmeckebler and Wil lam F. Willoughby, authors of th report, say that this recommendation is made in the interest of obtaining A | maximum of simplicity in organization, ' concentration of responsibility and | Doyle’s Counsel. (Continued From First Page.) United States attorney’s office for fail- | | investment broker. indicted in 1928, and arrested last week on & new charge, and { Capt. Doyle's report. defending the of- | ficer. Sackett Returns te Capital. | With the resolution befors it seeking to have Supt. of Police Pratt, Inspector W. S. Shelby and Lieut. Edward J. Kelly suspended if Capt. Doyle and Policeman { Allen are to be kept off duty pending their trial, the senatorial subcommittee ! swing into action again soon, its chair- | man, Senator Sackett of Kentucky, hav- ing returned. Senator Sackett arrived at the Capitol at noon today, but was unfamiliar with the developments in the police situation during the past few days. He stated that he would probably announce later in the afternoon the time for a meeting economy in the actual conduct of pub- lie affaire. They emphasize that at| prssent this responsibility is divided | between two bodies—the Board of Com- missioners and the Board of Education. Large Responsibilities, | The Commissioners “have very large responsibilities in respect to the magni- tude of the school program and the facilities 10 be made use of in putting | this program into effect.” they joint | out. “The Board of Education is con- | cerned with the matters of detrimining | the character of the curriculum: meth- | ods of instruction and text booke to be | used, and the recruitment, direction | and supervision of the teaching force and of the comparatively small for required in the way of janitois, cha women and the like for the operation | of the school buildirgs.” The institute report emphasizes th. “practically all students of public a ministration are agreed that, unless there are overwhelming reasons of a special character to the contrary, it is; unwise to dividé authority for the per- formance of a distinct function of gov- ernment between several agencies. and that such division of authority makes it | difficult to fix responsibility and in-| creases by so much the complexity of the governmental structure.” No Defense Seen. The authors insist that “the exist- ng system of taking from under the| general government of the District of | Columbia, as represented by the Board | of Commissioners, & part of the work | of caring for the owblic school system | and the maintenance of a public library | be defended, provided an af- case can be made out for such and they believe that “no such | case can be established.” They argue that it was inefficiency and corruption in local municipal gov- ernments that started the practice of taking the administration of such mat- ters as education, public health, police protection “out of politics” by setting | up separate boards. and that such split- ting up of governmental authority is not desirable. Whatever justification there may have been for such a policy when sdopted “has now passed away,” they declare. “In the District of Columbia.” the report says, “where the opportunity for the exercise of improper political pres- sure upon administrative officers is 50 | comparatively slight, there would seem to be no reason from this standpoint for making Whe of & type of organisa- tion that does such violence to cor- rect principles -of organization. ¥ Satisfactory Handling. *If public health matters ean be sat- fsfactoriiy handled by an administrative service constituting & part of the Dis- ! trict government, there would seem to be no reason why public school mat- | ters could not be equally well handled.” | Answering the argument that it “is | inadvisable, if not dangerous, to vest in a single administrative officer the important power of determining policies with respect to such matters as the curriculum, methods of instruction, and téxt books to be used.” the authors of | the report admit that “it is advan- tageous to have such im| nt mat- ters considered, if not definitely passed | upon, by & number of persons having ! cial competence with respect to these matters organized as an advisory body.” To secure such advantages the institute’s report recommends setting up having charge of school affairs & non: slaried advisory council corresponding to the present Board of Education. “An essential feature of the recom- mendation for the creation of a de- partment of education to take over ¢l of the quties now discharged in part by a | Board of Education and in part by the | Board of District Commissioners,” the | Institute for Government Research ad- vises, “is that provision be made in cre- ating this department for an_sadvisory council, which will be a subordinate agency of the department and discharge | all of the duties now performed by the present Board of Education and board | of trustees of the Public Library, with respect to the consideration of curricu- lum, methods of instruction, text books and rules and regulations governing the use of the lbrary system.” Greater Competence. The authors of the report argue that | 1f this council ia relieved of all admin- | istrative duties and responsibilities, and | has to concern itself only with such matters of general policy it will be pos- sthle to obtain a body which, as regards membership, “will be of a far higher | grade and have a greater technical com- petence than that possessed by the ex- 1sting boards.” 3 They point out that “men occupying mportant positions, such as presidents of universities or educators holding im- portant chairs in such institutions, could be induced to accept membership on such a non-salaried council, the re- sponsibilities of which were restricted, where they would be unwilling to do so if thelr duties had to do with the han- dling of difficult administrative prob- oms.” T tention s _also_called that the placing of administration of the schools and the library system in a de- partment of the general District govern- | ment will facilitate greatly the handling of such collateral questions as the use of the playgrounds of the achools a2 eneral playgrounds during vacation Bfter schiool ‘hours, and the location of branch libraries. “It is generally recognized that the public schools and the Public Library must be operated with the closest cor- Telation” the report says. It guotes the organic act establishing the Public Library as saying that it shall be “sup- plement of the public education sy ‘em.” and calls attention that “the li- brary is already operating through the publis schools. Superintendent a Trustee. At present the superintendent of schools is & trustee of the Public Li- brary through appointment as an in- dividual by the Board of Commis sloners. ‘The report comments that “this is not considered a wise policy. The superintendent of schools and the Ifbrarian are co-ordinate officers and the superintendent should not be placed in a position where he is one of the superiors of the librarian.” 1t is suggested that the placing of the schools and the library as co-ordi- nate units of the proposed Department of Education might “simplify the solu- tion of such questions as the use of the school plant for lMbrary purposes.” of ths subcommittee to discuss the situ- ation. Senator Blease, Democrat of South Carolina, sponsor of the investigation, introduced in the Senate late yesterday the resolution setting forth his beliel that Maj Pratt, Inspector Shelby and Lieut. Kelly shou:d be placed on the same basis as Capt. Doyle and Pvt. Allen until the questions at issue in the police investigation are settled. His position is that either Doyle and Allen should be restored to duty pending trial or the others should be suspended. The suspension of Capt. Doyle and Pvt. Allen occurred after Senator Sack- ett left the city early this week, so that is one of the new developments that is awaiting his attention. y Meeting Js Expected. It is probable an early meeting of the subcommittee will be called, not but to consider all answers that may have come in to the several leiters sent out by the subcommittee last week. reports on specific phases of the police probe. The text of the police resolution fol- Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that pending the investigation of the Metropolitan Police Department now being conducted by the Senate committee of the District of Columbia. that Messrs. Pratt, Doyle, Kelly, Sheiby and Allen be placed in the same position in reference to suspension and pay, and that if either or any of them is sus- pended and deprived of his salary pend- ing the outcome of such investigation, each of them should be.” Senator Blease did not ask for im- mediate action by the Senate, but re- quested the resolution be referred to the Senate District committee, which was done. Chairman Capper of the District com- mittee announced immediately that he would bring the resolution to the atten- tion of the investigating sub-committee headed by Senator Sackett. Another matter that awaited the return of Sen- ator Sackett is the report sent to the Capitol several days ago by Maj. Pratt. dealing with the previous suspension of Policeman Allen growing out of the in- vestigation the policeman made into the McPherson case. Allen was restored to duty & few days after that earlier sus- pension. Lee King's Death Brought Up. Ancther report the subcommittee called for will deal with the question of whether there was dela; he dis- trict attorney’s office in the dictments growing out of the death last Summer of Lee King, & Chinese, found shot on the street. A third report was called for as to the number of permits issued here this year to carry concealed weapons. ‘The mailing out of requests for these written statements was decided upon by the subcommittee last week as a preliminary step to the holding of hearings. Since Senator Sackett left the city Senator Blease has made public a list tify before the subcommittee regarding police affairs. THREE DIE IN CRASH. MEXICO CITY, October 25 (#).—Dis- patches to Excelsior from Chihuahua City today said that three persons had been killed when an airplane flying from El Paso, Tex., to Torreon fell near Gallego, 30 miles from Chihuahua. The airplane was said to have been chartered by Eduardo Gamiz, Torreon cotton_planter, and carried also an un- identified man believed to be a Texas cattleman. Both men and the pilot were killed. cators, pay no attention to the desira- bility of single control. But students of municipal administration in its broad aspects,” they affirm, “‘do not al- ways agree that the board is the only desirable system,” and they quote Chester C. Maxey on Outlines of Mu- nicipal Government. They also admit that school officers generally demand that the school sys- tem be made generally independent of municipal control as regards sppro- priations, accounting and purchasing. The superintendent of schools in his report, 1921-22, lays special stress on these features. Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, superintendent of public instruction for Pennsylvania, who made a survey of the schools of the District in 1922 for a subcommittee of the House and Sen- ate committees on the District of Co- lumbia, stressed that: “There should be an absolute divorcement of all school affairs from the municipal and political airs of the city. The Board of Edu- cation should be made the supreme local authority in the government and administration of the school system.” n contrast to this the authors of the | Institute for Government Research re- port quotes at length from Buck on municipal finance. In concluding their discussion of this phase of their report they say: “If the present board system is maintained the superintendent of schools should act as the head of the proposed depart- ment of education in order to effect the liaison necessary for the proper func- tioning of the municipal government. Appointment Methods. “It is further recommended that members of the Board of Education be appointed by the (proposed legislative i council (or by the Board of Commis- sioners if that body is continued). Ap- pointments by the judges of the Su- preme Court of the District of Colum- bia have not always turned out well, and it is believed that equally good re- sults will be obtained by placing this power in the hamds of the council which will be the responsible head of the District government, The appointment by the judges is an extra-judicial duty, and there is no reason to suppose good judges of law will be good judges of men. It is believed that the election of members would materially lower the standard of the board. “The power to remove members of the Board of Education should be definitely established. The present law is silent on that point. appointing power has the authority to remove, but ordinarily also the ap- pointing ‘power is the administrative 8. “The authors of this report admit that «fhe management of the public schools 1¥ & board is so customary in American citles that the writers on school ’Ln' istration, who are generally edu- superior of the appointee. This is aot true at present in the case of the Board of Education, as the only power vested in the Supreme Court is that of ap- pointment.” !ing orders for half a dozen of its wral- ing to prosecute Willlam L. Moffatt, an | investigating police affairs is expected to | only to take up the police resolution. | calling on various officials for detailed | of witnesses who may be asked to m-' Ordinarily, the pour into the market, neverthsless, one commission house reporting that the gieat bulk of its business during the morning was in the form of buge buy- thiest customers The thousands of sightseers who | again descended upon the financial dis- trict today caused_troublesome traffic problems. ~ At Broad and Wall strects a | half dozen moving-picture camera men | | gathered to take pictures of the crowds. " |The crowds gathered to watch the movie men. Traffic through these nar- row, high-walled thoroughfares, always | slow, soon wcdged itself into an im- | movable mass. Extra police were hastily | summoned to disperse the gaping throng | b and prevent n:wcomers from stopping | In front of J. P. Morgan & Co. and the 3ubtreasury Building. Brokers' Offices Crowded. ‘ | Customers’ rooms in all leading brok- erags houses were crowded this morn- | ing before the market opened. sons | Accounts, if they still had them, and | about the general outl for stock movements during the d | _The faces of customel howev | showed little of that grimness associat- | ed with sudden losses. One broker offered an easy explanation of this fact by pointing out that most of those who were watching the boards this morning had lost nothing. They had {been out of the market for several | months, he said, and were now back | with funds ready to pick up a few bar- galns. Advance at Opening. A broad advance set in directly after the opening gong and trading was in | sharply reduced volume, although many [ blocks of 5,000 to 15,000 shares changed | hands. Canadian Pacific jumped $12.62 and Byers shot up $19. National Cash Reg- | |ister, American Power & Light and | Eastman Kodak mounted about $4 to |85, and such stocks as American Tele- phone and U. 8. Steel opened about $1 higher. A few weak s were uncov- ered, however, Fox Film dropping $6 !and First National Stores $4.50. At the end of the first half hour of trading gains in leading stocks avers aged about $2, while several had scored broader advances. A flood of buying recommendations sent out overnight by | commission houses brought a fair |amount of buying orders and but little {more distress selling made its appear~ { ance. | While the general movement contin- | ued rather briskly upward, gains in a | few of the leading issues were held with | difficulty. U. 8. Steel, after selling up $1.50 to $207.50, slipped off to $20. 1 American Can slipped back $2.25. Eas! | man Kodak, however, soon extended its gain to $112.25, Trading became increasingly active | and sales during the first half hour to- led 1,228,200 shares. Veolume of Trading Grows, The stabllity of the market in the | early transactions attracted a huge amount of buying on the part of traders who have been waiting for the bolmml of the decline, as well as considerable | further selling by nervous holders who welcomed the higher levels to get rid of their stocks. During the first hour, | however, buying orders continued to | overbalance selling ordess. ‘Trading continued fo swell in vol- ume, the ticker falling nearly half an hout behind the market. The turnover | of 1,228,200 shares during the first half | hour was at the rate of more than 12,- 000,000 shares a day. but compared with 1,676,000 during the first half hour of record-breaking market, SO o th Feing Tone. state of executives regarding the state o this basic industry at the meeting of | the American Iron and Steel Institute | greatly improved confidence. The re- cent decline in steel " operations from the high levels of the Summer has! caused considerable nervousness and accelerated the drop in the market. President James A, Farrell of the United States Steel Corporation said, “There is a good deal of pessimism around in some industries, but I can't see where it affects the steel business. With one or two exceptions, we are as | busy as we can expect to be. I think business is good when we can run at; 75 to 80 per cent of capacity at this time of the year.” i Clearing Corporation Report. After long hours of grueling labor lasting through the night, the Stock Clearing Corporation was able shortly before 11 a.m. to announce that cle | ings of all of yesterday's record-break- ing transactions, totaling 12.894,600 shares, had been completed. That all| houses were able to make deliveries against their sales confirmed the state- ment issued at the bankers’ conference at J. P. Morgan & Co. yesterday that no Stock Exchange houses were being pressed to the wall, Also unconfirmed rumors that as a result of conferences yesterday leading bankers had raised $1,000,000,000 to support the stock market, gave traders & renewed feeling of security. While national banks and trust companies are unable to buy stocks for their own a | count, they may loan funds to private and investment bankers for this pur- pose. One of the most salutary effects of the benkers’ conferences, however, | was psychological. The following table illustrates some of the approximate extreme gains of the first hour's trading, as compared to | yasterday's net losses: AM. Yesterday's gain, loss, $7.00 $2.00 $19.00 $12.50 $12.62 Amn. & Foreign P. General Electric. A. M. Byers. Eastman Kodak Canadian Pacific Radio . ... $2.00 General Motos $1.50 Activity at High Pitch, Activity was still at fever pitch in the financial district today. Many bro- kers and thelr employes struggled through their feverish duties pale and hollow-eyed from Jack of sleep last night after yesterday's severe ordeal. It was rumored that the Stock Exchange might close Saturday to provide relief from the strain, but it was announced late this forenoon that no action was being taken toward closing. The financial district was again thronged with sightseers and anxious speculators and investors. The signs of renewed market ability, however, af- fected commission house boardroom crowds like beams of sunshine after a frightful storm. Despite extreme weari- ness, there were more cheerful counte- nances than have been seen in several | days. GRAIN PRICES IRREGULAR. CHICAGO, October 25 (#).—Wheat prices made a small recovery at the opening of the market today, but quickly reacted from 4 to 5 cents below the top. The start was '{ to 23, cents above Thursday's close, but trading was extremely active and a wave of selling within the first hal our carried May wheat down to $1.28';. down 5!; cents from its best price. March sold down 1o $1.27%; and December to $1.17%. BERLIN GLAD OF BREAK. Financial Circles See Advantage to Europe in Stock Liquidation. BERLIN, October 25 (#).—Berlin ‘flnunclnl circles today declared that Ivflmrda_v'.' “Black Thursday” on the New York Stock Exchange had b ht forth a sigh of relief throughout M rope, which suffcred from the exag- test Director. ‘The nine contenders in the Fourth International Oratorical Contest finals tomorrow night are meeting for the first . time late today at a reception in their honor at the Virginia home of Randolph Leigh, contest director general, whose original ides is responsible for their being brought from the corners of the world to Washington, where they will speak their best in the interest of good government. As they meet one another for the t time the girl and eight boys also il meet the six judges who will deter- mine the best speaker from among them tomorrow night, educators who have interested themselves in the con- | test as an institution of learning, news- paper officials and contestants who have preceded them in their drive toward the world championship in secondary school ! oratory. Dr. Jan Herman van Royen, Minister from the Netherlands, and chairman of the committee of judges, will be among those to greet the nine speakers. The other judges present will include Dr. Richard Henry Wilson, head of the ro- mance language department at the Uni- versity of Virginia: Dr. Jules-Bois. member of the faculty of L’Ecole de Psychologie at Paris; Dr. Paul Gleis, head of the department of German at the Catholic University: Dr. Adam Bo- ving, Danish scholar, and Comdr. J. B. de Marbois, professor of languages at Upper Canada College, Toronto. Swofford Reaches City. Ben W. Swofford of Kansas City, the representative of the United States in the contest. reached the Capital shortly before noon today. Miss Frances Dick- son, contest manager for the Kansas City Star, newspaper sponsor of young Swofford in the contest, preceded him here by several hours.’ Swofford had been expected to come to Washington yesterday afternoon, but the time of his arrival was delayed. Miss Lis Torslefl, the Danish girl who will speak for the Scandinavian and upper European nations, reaches Wash- ington this afternoon in time to at- tend the reception at the Leigh home. She has remained in New York since she landed there last Monday. Meanwhile plans are being completed for the contest finals. It was an- nounced today that the Tech Symphor.y Orchestra, widely known ganization of McKinley High School students, will present the musical pro- gram at the meeting. Dore Walten, McKinley High School faculty mem- ber, who has trained the student mu- siclars, will conduct. the orchestra. Anthems to Be Played. The nine contestants will be intro- duced to the audience with the playing of their respective national anthems. Another interesting development in the plans for this year's international meet is the decision to eliminate the loud-speaker amplifiers which hereto- fore have been used when the finals were held in the Washington Audito- rium. The acoustics of Constitution Hall, the new D. A. R. auditorium, which only recently was opened, were tried and found to be adequate to per- mit the young speakers to talk “on their own.” Thus the audience will hear without any artificial aids, and the powers of the voices may be compared with a greater degree of efficiency. Besides Ben Swofford and Miss Tors- leff, the contex(lndu who Wll‘l attend the | reception Mr. h are give ing in their honor are Gabriel Fouche of France, F. Whitnall Allen of Eng- land, Roberto Ortiz Gris of Mexico, Vicente Pardo Suarez of Cuba, Roch Pinard of Canada, Herbert Schaumann of Germany and Benigno Petit Lecaros of Peru, SENATOR BURTON SUFFERS RELAPSE [ Apprehension Is Expressed When Condition of Ohioan Becomes Suddenly Worse. By the Associated Press. Senator Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, has suffered a serious relapse in his {ll- ness and, Pis family today expressed apprehension over his condition.. He is 17 years old. ‘The Ohlo Senator has been confined to his residence here for more than a | month, failing to recover from an at- tack of grippe. Until recently he has been able w\ carry on his work at home, but last| | report. night his condition took a sudden turn for the worse. Burton's health has been none too 800d since he took his seat in the Sen- ate last December, His career in Congress is unparalleled. He first served in the House and later | In 1916 Burton did not ! in the Senate. stand for re-election to the Senate, but several years later ran for the House and served continuously in the House until beginning his present 3enate term. The veteran legislator was one of the first in Congress to declare for Herbert Hoover for the Republican nomination and took an active part in Hoovers contest for the Ohio vote. NATION’S BUSINESS> BELIEVED SOUND DESPITE STOCK FALL (Continued From First Page.) market prices when the regular session meets in December. Chairman Nor- beck of the Senate banking committee announced that the King proposal has his support. Senator Edge, ranking Republican on the banking committe., expressed th oninion that speculation and “the inde- fensible increases in brokers’ loans were at fault. “It is an unfortunate method of adjustment,” he said, “to cost thousands of persons their fortunes, but it seems to have been inevitable.” Meanwhile, the weekly summary of loans to brokers and dealers by New York Federal Reserve member banks was issued, showing & continuation of the downward trenc that has character- ized these extensions of credit recently and a recession for the week ending October 24 of $167,000,000 from the total of the preceding week, the largest decrease noted in several months. = - — gerated speculation that had been go- | | 70-piece or- | the voices of the contestants themselves | i The top: The jury, photographed as Right cente wer right: Mark Thompson, perso heart attack when he heard the verdict. FALL FOUND GUILTY OF OIL CASE BRIBE Former Cabinet Member Stunned When Jury Presents Verdict. | | __(Continued From First Page.) “The one remaining vote for acquittal came over for conviction today.” Seven ballots were taken in all. On the first ballot yesterday, it was sald, two of the woman jurors were for acquittal and two did not vote, while on the fourth ballot last night two of | the woman jurors voted for conviction and two to free Fall, Shortly after 9 o'clock, through a misundeistanding, the. deputy marshals in charge of the jury were informed | that an agreement had been reached. ‘The court and counsel on both sid | were notified, and Mr. Fall, who had | been waiting at his hotel since the jury | retired yesterday morning, was sum- | moned to court. | Shortly after the arrival of the de- fendant a deputy marshal informed | Justice Hitz that there had been & mis- | take and the jury was not ready to | During the wait of one hour, so anx- | fous to all concerned, two other ballots were taken before the cne juror was won over to a verdict to convict. At 10:10 o'clock it was rumored that the jury had reached an agreement. A | half-hour wait, with no further report, and counsel on both sides were sum- moned to the chambers of Justice Hitz. This gave way to speculation as to a | possible conviction. In the meantime, Mr. Fall, accompanied by his physician | and nurse, took his customary seat in the big upholstered chair at the pris- | oner's bar. Doheny left his wife and sat beside him. Defendant Appeared Unconcerned. | The elderly defendant appeared to be | more or less unconcerned, though there | was a great gravity about his coun- tenance which showed subdued emo- tion. They sat and chatted as minute after minute passed without a word | from the 12 men and women deliberat- ing his fate in & room directly over their heads. Forty-five minutes of this tense wait- ing passed before Justice Hitz and; counsel made their appearance, and | court was called to order. ! The drop of & pin could have been | heard after the jury filed in, one by | one, and took the seats they bad oc- | cupled 18 days throughout the trial. | Before defense counsel announced its | intention to appeal from the verdict | and move for an arrest of judgment, Justice Hitz explained to the jurors the | events which transpired in the court during their absence. He explained that, owing to physi-, cal exhaustion of the defendant, he | had requested four physicians to ex- amine him. They reported back last Friday a week ago that the defendant was suffering from bronchial pneu- monia and, in their opinion, was not able to go on with the trial. Justice Hitz explained to the jury the | events that followed the next day when | | ! counsel for the government moved to declare_a mistrial and discharge the jury. This was opposed by counsel for Mr. Fall, he said, who suggested that the case be continued until the follow- | ing on in Wall Stree ‘This speculation, “which the Federal Reserve Board had been doctoring for a year and = day,” represented a men- ace to European economic affairs. It had restricted money markets and pushed up rates of interest. 1t was generally believed that European capital would now begin to flow back home from New York, though the bull movement in New York is not consid- ered to have been stopped by yester- day’s slump, ing_Monday. i ‘When Fali appeared in court the next day, Justice Hitz said he realized the difficulties presented to the court, coun- sel and jury because of the defendant's state of health. All other considera- tions having been ylelded .when the de- fendant waived his Constitutional right to appear in court made it necessary for the trial to resume, he explained. Fall had been in constant attendance despite the repory of the physicians | who examined hing even when it was they left the courtroom. Lower left: Fall, leaving in his wheel chair. Norris, foreman of the jury. nal attorney for Fall, who collapsed in a —Star Staff Phot-s necessary for him to be wheeled in In a chair. ‘The chief of defense -counsel, Mr. Hogan, was bitter rraignment of the judge’s charge to the jury. ‘ “The verdict rendered was invited by the judge in violation of the consti- | tutional rights of the defandant.” he said in a statement immediately follow- ing the rendering of the verdict. “Everybody who heard the charge knew what the verdict would be. When the evidence was closed it was a fore- | gone conclusion that there would be an acquittal. { “Justice Hitz robbed the defendant of his rights by his charge. The verdict | | was his and not the jur | The deferse has four days in which | "o file a motion for a new trial and | for its motion to arrest judgment of the court. A Subsequent date will be set for argument on the motion and in the event of its being overruled the court will pronounce sentence. | Mrs. Fall Shaken. | The former cabinet officer and Mrs. Fall, accompanied by his doctor and nurse, drove to their downtown hotel a few minutes after the verdict. Fall walked into the hotel lobby. appearing little affected. but Mrs. Fall appeared considerably shaken. 1 Mrs. Chase and Mrs. Elliott followed their parents to the hotel in another car. Mrs. Chase, who was almost hys- terical, had to be assisted through the lobby. Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana, who led the Senate investigation into the naval oil least aid today on hear- | ing of Fall's conviction: “Every right- | minded person ought to be gratified that this large measure of justice has been done.” Mr. Roberts, special Government counsel, after the verdict, announced that the Government would move to bring Doheny to trial on a charge of giving a bribe of $100,000 to Fall soon | after the first of the year. | Roberts said that because his asso- | clate counsel, Altee Pomerene, would | go to Los Angeles November 18 to | prosecute civil suits to recover for the | Government “rellef releases” granted | to Doheny in December, 1921, and Feb- ruary, 1922, it would be impossible to set the trial of Doheny for next month, and that he did not wish to try the case in the short court month of De- cember. The four women on the jury, one of them a gray-haired wife of 59 years, and the eight men, who rendered duty on the jury, had been separated from their homes and pursuits since October | 7. when they were locked up during | lelsure hours in the Metropolitan Hotel. Last night during their deliberations they slept in the courthouse. Jury Is Guarded. 1 They ceased their deliberations of the | case at 1 o'clock this morning and re- ! tired for the night. The four women on the jury and Deputy Marshal Mrs. Maude Billman Perris slept inside the | dormitory and the eight men occupied the space between the office of the chief clerk and the district attorney. They were guarded throughout the night by Deputy Marshals Col. James McCarthy, Capt. Willlam Denham and Watchman Jackson, Somewhat refreshed by six hours' sleep, the jurors arose at 7 o'clock this morning and ate breakfast at 8 o'clock They had fruits, cereal, toast, bacon and eggs, sausage, hot cakes and maple sirup. Whether this he ty repast was responsible for their failure to agree on a verdict on the first ballot taken after breakfast is not known. The end of the trial brings about & reunion in the 12 homes of the tempo- rarily imprisoned jurors. The 12 who passed sentence upon the | former Secretary of the Interior and| who decided the $100,000 “loan” given | him by the California oil man was in | reality a bribe represented a cross section of American life. There were among the women a stenographer, & bookkeeper and two who gave their occupations as house- wives. Except for Miss Cooper, the other three women were married. ' The men who held Fall's fate in their hands were a railroad engineer, a telegraph clerk, a colored dining car waiter. a traction company clerk, a bank teller, a hotel clerk, an interior decorator and a 23-year-old coal merchant, feat Mrs. Nicolson. In one of the best final rounds ever seen in a golf tournament about Wash- ington Mrs. John N. Hodges of the | Army, Navy and Marine Corps Country | “Visitors to Washington™: DISTRICT VOTING APPEAL ATTRACTS Visitors to Exposition Booth! Commend Move for Rep- resentation. New impetus has been given to the movement to provide residents of Wash- ington representation in Congreas and the right to vote for Presi- dent as a result of the visits of thousands of persons this week to the booth of the Citizens’ Joint Com- mittee on National Representation at the fifth annual industrial exposi- tion, under the auspices of the Wash- ington Chamber of Commerce, in the Wishington Auditorium. The booth occupies & prominent po- sition on the first floor of the Audl- torium, Above it is a large sign bearing the words, “Washington Wants Voting Representation in Senate and House of Representatives.” Another sign bears the inscription “We Help Nominate and We Help In- augurate, but Are Not Permitted to Help Elect the President.” Verse Is Inscribed. On another large sign is the following | verse by Philander Johnson, entitled | “Two American voters | Met here just by chance; ] One came from Russi: 1 And one came from France. | With pride in their franchise They learn with regret That & man from Right Here Isn't naturalized yet.” Thousands of pamphlets and other | forms of literature explaining the con- | stitutional amendment pending in Con- | gress to remedy the plight of voteless Washington have been given to inter- ested visitors. Jesse C. Suter, who is in charge of the booth, and his corps of assistants have been busy every day this week from 2:30 in the afternoon | Club today won the final of the Middle Atiantic Golf Association ~women's champlonship at_the Columbia Country Club, defeating Mrs. Hugh T. Nicolson {of the Washington Golf and Country Club on the nineteenth hole. Mrs. Hodges holed an approach shot on the nineteenth green to win the match and the title. Putting poorly over the first 11 holes while her opponent Dlayed par golf, Mrs. Nicolson stood on the twelfth tes 6 down and 7 to go. She then pro- ceeded to stage the most curageo comeback ever witnessed in a wome golf tournament of major stature about Washington, winning five of the next six holes and finally squaring the match by running down a 20-foot putt for a | birdie 4 on the eightesnth green. At the time she started her come- back Mrs. Hodges was playing mag- | nificent golf, while Mrs. Nicolson’s game, particularly around the putting greens. was erratic. Mrs. Hodges was out in 42 in & high wind and was 4 up on the District champion. But at the twelfth hole Mrs. | Nocolson’s game suddenly changed, and, playing with all the confidence that has made her the king pin in locan woman's golf for the last three years, she won five holes in a row from Mrs. Hodges, | whose game suddenly slipped back. Mrs. Nicolson needed a 12-foot putt on the seventeenth to keep the match going. and she holed it. She needed a 20-foot | putt on the eighteenth to win the hole. and she holed that also. At the extra hole Mrs. Hodges put ! her third shot on the edge of a bunker over the green, while Mrs. Nicolson was on the green in the same number of strokes. Mrs. Hodges then holed her { mashie chip shot for a 4 which won | her the match and the championship when Mrs, Nicolson's-putt for the half barely missed the cup. Mrs. Nicolson scored 85 for the second round against | 88 for Mrs. Hodges. The second flight was won by Mrs. Frank R. Keefer of | the Chevy Chase Club, who defeated | Mrs. Walter D. Bahn of Baltimore, 2 up. CALLAHAN QUITS AS SHIPPING HEAD B. F. Saul and William E. Pearson Also Resign as Company Directors. After 36 years in the service of the Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co., which his father organized in 1891, D. | J. Callahan yesterday resigned as gen- eral manager of the Capital's biggest shipping concern, At the same time two other directors of the concern, B. F. Saul and Willlam E. Pearson, severed their connection with the line. At the election meeting of, the board of directors yesterday, at which the three resignations were accepted, Clar- ence F, Norment, jr., son of the chair- man of the board of the line, was pro- moted from vice president to president, succeeding the late Charles J. Bell. ‘Will Intensify K. of C. Work. Mr. Callahan's resignation becomes | effective November 30. Already, how- ever, he has made plans for relinquish- He plans to go to At- lantic City in a few days and upon his return to the Capital to devote more of his time to his office as supreme treas- urer of the Knights of Columbus, which position he has held for the last 20 years. Associated with Mr. Callahan's father, John Callahan, in the organization of the boat line which has run between the Capital and Tidewater Virginid since 1891, were the late Levi Woodbury. Willlam E. Clarke and George W. Pear- son, all of Washington, and Willlam H. White of Norfolk. Under the general management of Mr. Callahan the company has risen | to the most prosperous corditlon in its_history. The two directors who resigned are prominent in Capital financial circles. ! Mr. Pearson is president of the Vir- | ginla Brick Co. and Mr. Saul, ir addi | tion to being president of the real e.- | tate investment concern which bears his name, is vice president of the | American Security & Trust Co. Mr. Callahan has given liberally for many years of his time and energy to clvic affairs in the Capital. He has at various times served as president of the Washington Chamber of Com- merce, the Board of Education and the Washington Rotary Club. During the war he was director in charge of the sale of $7,500,000 in war savings stamps and brought the campaign to a successful coxclusion during the year he served. The steamboat line today issued a statement in which it was announced that the board, in addition to electing Mr. Norment president, had promoted Gustavus W. Forsberg vice president, to succeed Mr. Norment; had made Edwin C. Brandenburg second vice president, to succeed Mr. Forsberg, and had elect- ed George P, Sacks to the board, to fill the vacancy left by the death of Charles J. Bell. until 10:30 o'clock at night, not only distributing literature, but talking with | persons who have been attracted by the | display and the striking signs explain- ing the un-American condition of ! Washingtonians, | Visitors Show Interest. Mr. Suter said today that visitors from Arlington County, have | shown great interest in the movement | and many of them have expressed the opinion that when Washington is given national representation the residents of that county will be practically unani- | mous in favor of restoring Arlington County_to lts former status as a part of the District of Columba. A large sign in the center of the display contains the names of the offi- cers of the citizens’ committee and the following inscription® _“The Citizens' Joint Committee for National Repre- sentation has entire direction of the campaign for national _representation | on behalf of organized Washington." The officers of the committee are Theodore W. Noyes, chairman; John | Joy Edson, A. Leftwich Sinclair, Jesse C. Suter and Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mus- sey, vice chairmen: Robert J. Cot- trell, secretary, and Robert N. Harper, treasurer, Assisting at Booth. Those who have. been assisting at the booth this week, passing out litera- ture and explaining verbally the move- ment _to Americanize the residents of the District are Mrs. Clara Wright Smith, Mrs. Lester Pollock, Harry N. Stull, Dr. and Mrs. George F. Bower- man, Mrs. Louis Ottenberg, Mrs. Edna L. Johnston, Edgar B. Henderson, A. Leftwich Sinclair, Horace J. Phelps, Washington Topham, Mrs, Harlee, George F. Brown, George Seibold and Miss Christman. The booth will continue to be one of the principal features of the exposi- tion this afternoon, tonight and to- MOTToW, RADICAL ACCEPTS BRIAND PORTFOLIO | Edouard Deladier Agrees to At- tempt to Form French Cabinet. By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 25.—Edouard Da- ladier, radical leader, today accepied President Doumergue’s invitation to form a new government to succeed that of Premier Aristide Briand, who re- signed Tuesday. He told the President he would try to get a cabinet together. M. Daladier spent three-quarters of an hour with the President discussing his plans. He left early in the after- noon for Rheims. where the radical Socialist party stiil is holding its con- gress. M. Daladier has frequently held posts in cabinets during the past 10 years, but has never been premier. In 1924 he was minister of the colonies and In 1925 vecame minister of war in the Painleve cabinet. This cabinet shortly fell and he be- came minister of the interior in the Briand cabinet. The next year he was minister of education in the Herriot cabinet. Envoy's Wife Stricken. PARIS, October 25 (#)—Mrs. Hugh Wilsor:, wife of the American lllnhl‘fl' at Bern, Switzerland, is under treat- ment at the American Hospital at Paris, the cause of her iliness unde- term! . She was hurried to the hos- pital two days ago, but since has made m;:hh"'ood progress no anxiety is feit