Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1929, Page 2

THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. OCTOBER 27 1929—PART ONE. TARIFF FOES USE Propose to Employ Reve!a-? tions of Probe as “Hot Shot” in Senate. | STU. (Continued From First Page.) slated for _tomorrow plans are changed. The tactics of the opponents of the tariff bill appear to be to use the Bingham-Eyanson incident to hammer at.the bill rather than for the purpose | of seeking to bring about action of the Senate adverse to Senator Bingham. How long, however, before an effort will | be made to discipline the Connecticut | Senator s a matter of conjecture. | ‘There are signs that sooner or later the | Scnate may be called upon to express | itself in the matter. Senator Dill of | Washington, Democrat. yesterday sug- | gested in an interview that Senator | Bingham should be removed from the | finance committee. Whether he would | offer a resolution 1ropping Senator | Bingham from the committee he said | he had not determined. He believed | the initiative should properly be taken | by the finance committee itself or by the lobby investigating committee. unless present | Report Debated in Senate. The report of the lobby committee and the debate which followed it ves- terday occupied most of the three hours of the brief Senate session. The injec- | tion of the lobby committee’s revela- | tions into the debate is not calculated | to speed the bill on its passage. The | Senate has disposed of the less contro- versial matters in the chemical sched- ule of the tariff bill. It has to com- plete this schedule and 14 more rate schedules in the five weeks that remain | before the regular session of Congress opens. This seems an almost fmpossible task, although party leaders siill cling to & hope that the bill may be passed | by the Senate in the special session and | not be forced over into the regular | session. | Senator Bingham made no reply to | his tormentors yesteiday. He wasin the | Senate chamber practically throughout the reading of the lobby committee's report and the debate which followed. It is not his purpose to make a further statement of his position in regard to the employment of Eyanson, he said afterward. He called attention to the | fact that he had stated his position | fully in the Senate some time ago and | before the lobby committee. Should a | resolution of censure be offered and | brought up, however, he might well be expected to defend himself on the Sen- ate floor. | i . Senator George Joins. Details of the plans of the Federal | Mount Vernon Boulevard were explained to Go Grant, 3d. executive officer of the Natio { Planning Commission, during a tour of the section of Arlingt Lieut. Col. U. by Federal development plans. In the William S. Hoge, jr., sdvocate of the CALENDAR REFORM POTOMAC HIGHWAY FAILS IN VOTING Two-Thirds Majority Lack- ing in Referendum by Chamber of Commerce. DY PLANS FOR METROPOLITAN AREA or the construction of the art Gove Capital Park and n County affected group are (left to right): Gov. Byrd: | Keith A. Brumback, president of the Arlington County Chamber of Commerce; Lee Boulevard route, and Col Grant. 4 -—Star Staff Phoko. PLANS DISCUSSED Gov. Byrd and Arlington | County Officials Meet With Col. Grant. F. Byrd of Virginia by ! DOVLEANDALLEN | SERVED CHARGES ‘Departme'nt Prepared for Trial of Suspended Officers | at Early Date. (Continued From First Page.) shouid the Police Department, Kelly shouid come out of his and Shelby come out of his. “Senators may not believe it: th:w may think it is idle talk, but if we do not do something &t an early.date in this matter, just as surely as we arc| living, this cily is going to be & Hade: | of crime. It is getting worse every dav | Somebody should be put in control of | this city who would have the nerve and | the beckbone to straighten it out.| Somebody should be put in control in this city that the men of the under- world would have no hold on.” Urges Action Immediately. | Al another point in his speech Sen- . ator Blease declared “we ought to take some action and take it right away.” “This thing is getting serious.” he continued, “and it may be more serious | than Senators think. It may be brought home, not to me personally, I have no fear of that. I have been threatened | many a time and, of course, I might some day be killed by some fellow who would shoot me in the back. The South Carolina Senator added that if an opponent came to his- face he_would not complain. Senator Heflin, Democrat, of Ala- bama, interrupted to ask Senator Blease if he had received information about a certain case recently. Senator Heflin sald: 1 “Does the Senator remember that some time ago there was a shooting out at a roadhouse in Maryland or in the District_of Columbia, on a Maryland road, where a man. and I think a wom- an, were killed? A citizen of this Dis- trict came to me the other day—and I think the Senator has talked to him himself—and told me that he had told one of the Government's detectives, a detective of the city of Washington, who did the shooting, and who the wit- nesses were. This detective told him to see another detective, and he sald he told the other detective about it and | told him where the murderer was, but that they had not done anything about | it, and that the man who did the kill- | ing was now living in a city near 1s | the Senator apprised of that fact “Rottenness” Unbelievable. Senator Blease replied that he had heard of that and added: | “I would be afraid to tell the Senate what has been told me because I do not believe any man could possibly believe i. DRY HEADQUARTER DRY OFFICIALS IN NEW QUARTER The Prohibition Bureau yesterday moved into its new q uarters in the old Southern Railway Building. Left to right: | Dr. B. R. Rhees, deputy commissioner; Assistant Secretary Lowman and Dr. James M. Doran, prohil bition commissioner. ~—Star Staff Photo. TAKE NEW OFFICES Prohibition Bureau Moves to Southern Building on Pennsylvania Ave. On the occasion of establishing new | headquarters of the Prohibition Bureau in the Southern Railway Building, | corner Pennsylvania avenue and Thlr-‘ teenth street, a conference was held | yesterday morning in the new offices | by three high officials in charge of pro- | hibition enforcement. In his new office on the third floor, on the northeast corner of the build- | ing, Dr. James M. Doran, prohibition | commissioner, conferred with Assistant | Secretary of the Treasury Seymour | Lowman, in charge of all -prohibition | forces of the Government, and Dr.! B. R. Rhees, deputy commissioner of prohibition. Lowman Inspects Quarters. “Governor” Lowman walked over to| the new Southern Building offices of | the Prohibition Bureau from his office | in the Treasury Building, about two| squares away, and looked over the new | quarters from which the Federal Gov- | ernment directs enforcement of the M’PHERSON SUICIDE THEORY IS LEFT OPEN BY FEDERAL AGENTS (Continued From First Page.) Advocates of the murder hypothesis have held that the position of Mrs. McPherson's body against the bedroom door of her apartment was one of the strongest arguments against Careful study of this phase of the case said to have shown this very fact | also may be cited to bolster the suicide | theory. A point overlooked in this connection by early investigators is that the bed- room side of this door contained a full- length mirror. note of, prospective suicide would have stood in front of the bureau mirror and that in falling her feet could not have landed against the door in the position in which the body was found. A per- son contemplating suicide quite pos sibly could have stood before the full- length mirror and fallen naturally into the position referred to. Furthermore, first reports that the room was dark have been disproved. A table lamp was burning when the body was found. 1t is reported reliably, moreover, that | the importance of arguments that the | husband “indicted himself” by admit- ting he had covered his wife's form with a dress after finding it on Sep- tember 14 has been somewhat dis- counted, in view of facts uncovered by the Bureau of Investigation. Held Not Incriminating. It is understood the bureau's agents suicide. | BOOSTED BUILDING " FUND FOR DISTRIGT /$175,000,000 More for U. S. to Be Asked of Seventy- First Congress. _First_Page.) | (Continued Fro Before this was taken | it had been claimed that a ly every important parcel is either pur- chased or under condemnation. ‘The addition to the Liberty Loan Building has been completed. The beautiful new central or pavillion building of the De- | partment of Agriculture is nearing completion. The erection work is pro- | gressing rapidly on the $17,500,000 De- | partment of Commerce structure. The | new $10,000,000 Internal Revenue Build- | ing will be completed and ready for | occupancy by July 1, next, 12 to 14 | months ahead of schedule. There are /1,100 men working on this building, | drawing a total of $9,900 a day. In- terior walls and ceilings are now being put in place. For the Commerce and Inter: Revenue Buildings it is taking 12,300 carloads of Indiana limestone. It | woula _require a train 28 miles long to | haul this building material to the Cap- | ital from the Bloomington and Bedford | quarries of Indiana. An addition to the Government Printing Office is under MOVE BY MOSES | STIRSG. 0. P. RANKS Movement Is Afoot to Per- suade Kahn to Decline Treasurer Post. | _The Republican national leadership was plunged into sharp controversy | yesterday by Senator George H. Mosses' announcement of Otto H. Kahn, New | York banker, as treasurer of next year's | Republican 'senatorial campaign. '8 movement was afoot to persuate Mr. | Hahn to decline. Senator Moses, | ever, was holding his ground. ! The controversy had its beginning | Thursday night in New York at Jere- | miah Milbank’s dinner for Claudius H. | Huston, the new Republican national { chairman, Without advance notice to several of the party leaders present, it is said, Senator Moses, as chairman of the senatorial campaign committee made his announcement. Move Came as Surprise. It was a surprise to nearly everybody in the room, it is sald especially to J. R. Nutt, treasurer of the Republican national committee, who was under the impression that the natiol committee was to be the sole collecting agency for the party campaign, senatorial and congressional. Under the circumstances certain ad- ministration leaders present at the dinner passed the announcement off |as “a mere pleasantry” of Senator | Moses’ speech. which was madc, they said today, directly across the table from Mr. Kahn, and in the Senator's usual humorous vein. It struck them as inconceivable, according to their ex- pressed opinions today, that Senator Moses would not see the “political folly” of naming “an international banke) to raise funds for the party campaign. Mr. Nutt. who was interviewed after calling on President Hoover yesterday afternoon, said that it was “obviously a mistake, since there was no need for two collecting agencies and no one had sald anything to him about chang- ing the arrangement whereby the na- tional committee would raise the cam- paign chest. “I don't think they (the Senators) intend to do it,” said Mr. Nutt. “They don't need a separate treasurer.” This was after Mr. Milbank, Eastern treas- urer for the party in the presidential campaign last year, had referred in- quirers in New York to Mr. Nutt for the answer to the question whether Mr. Kahn was or was not to be in the party campaign organization. Moses Was in Earnest. Senator Moses made it plain, how- ever, tha' he was perfectly serious in what he said at the dinner and con- Calendar reform proposals failed to | BY LESTER N. INSKEEP, that the rottenness could exist in the | CroRibiiion laws, and - conferred At | have found nothing InCHmnating in | cowerima. sidered Mr, Kahn ideally qualified in Senator George of Georgia, Wwho rarely addresses the Senate, but is lis- tened to attentively when he does. crashed into the tariff lobby debate yesterday with an impressive and elo- | quent speech in which he pictured & system of tariff making in which the manufacturing interests influenced the Government, particularly after they had provided huge funds to help slect the President and members of Con- gress. In vain did Senator Watson, Repub- Lie leader and a member of the finance committee, urge that Mr. Grundy and no other lobbyist had in- fluenced the vote of any Senator who was a_member of the finance commit- | tee. Senator George declared he did not intend to charge any Senator with wrong doing, but that it was the sys- fch Was all wrong. t is\ the fruit of the system um- der'which we write tariffs?” demanded Sepator George. “When I came into \e_ Senate I remember a dlfun.ujahed nator, now dead, the lale Nelson of Minnesota, repeating on one occasion a statement that he had made during the consideration of the Ford- ney-McCumber act. He said that the great industries of this country came down to Washington with their sched- ules in their little satchels and got what they wanted.” Referring to testimony before the lobby committee, he continued: “Ac- cept my word for it or not, but the American people have the concrete case jority vote in a Nation-wide referendum of business organizations included in the membership of the Chamber of Commerce of the Unted States, the ‘rhnmb!r headquarters here announced today. A preliminary canvass of the ballot- ing shows that each of the three pro- posals put forward received a majority of the" votes cast, but since the na- | | by a two-thirds majority no decision was reached on any of the propositions. on_each follow: That the present calendar should be 50 changed &5 to bring about & greater comparability in business records for periods within a year and for periods | from year to year. I'or, 1,549: against, | 1,318." Necessary to carry, 1912. | “That the form which changes in | termined through_international con- | ference. For, 1783 against, | Necessary to carry, 1.910. | ‘That the Government of the United | States should participate in an inter- | national conference to determine the form of changes to be mede in the calendar. For, 1856; against, 1,009. | Necessary to carry, 1911. Confersnce Vote Heaviest. As shown by the preliminary count receive the necessary two-thirds ma- | tional chamber can be committed only | ‘The proposals submitted and the vote | 1,082. | Staff Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va., October 26— Bringing results viewed as making for decided progress in the development of the metropolitan area, a conference was held here today between officials of the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, Gov. Harry F. Byrd | of Virginia and officials of Arlington County. This conference, which lasted the greater part of the afternoon and eve- ning, resulted in three announcements by Gov. Byrd that are expected to af- fect as greatly the people of the Dis- trict of Columbia &s they are those of Virginia in general and Arlington County in particular. ‘The first of these is what was con- sidered by those present at the con- ference as an indorsement.of the Cram- ton park bill, with'respget to its pro- vision that the State or county share half of the expenseé of the development of & park and driveway along the Senator | the calendar should take should be de- | shores of the Potomac from Mount | Vernon to Great Falls. Explained by Grant. After listening intently to an expla- nation of the bill, as made by Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, Gov. Byrd inquired particularly whether the Federal body | could, under the proposed bill, expend any appropriations already made after entering into a contract with the State world that is in the City of Washing- ton, and how far it reaches, both up and down. That is why I think some- thing should be done in this matter.” 8 Chepman W. Fowler and T. Morris Wampler, attorneys who will represent Capt. Doyle, were in conference with him at the Fontanet when Lieut. Mi- chael Raedy, who has been acting com- mander of the eighth precinct since the | suspension of Doyle, served the formal charges. Raedy was called to head- quarters vesterday afternoon and given the charges to serve by Harry M. Luck- ett, chief clerk of the police department. Who prepared them with the assistance of Robert E. Lynch, assistant corpora- tion counsel, who has been designated to prosecute Doyle and Allen. “Here’s Your Death Warrant.” In a voice choken with emotion, Lieut. Raedy told Doyle of his mission and drew from a large manila envelope the legal-appearing document. “Well, here's your death warrant, captain,” he remsrked facetiously. as he uncer- moniously presented the sharges. Capt. Doyle, surrounded by his law- vers. read the charges aloud rath hastily. Finishing, he turned to Raedy and smiled blandly, recorded the time he received the paper and remarked: “Well, boys, what do you think of | them?" Lieut. Raedy then went to Allen’s apartment on Comaecticut avenue and served the charges on the young officer. There was a total lack of ceremony | | | length with the commissioner. The office of the prohibition com- missioner is large and commodious, | simply arranged with a large conference table in addition to the commissioner's desk. The only picture on the wall is an excellent and large picture of | President Abraham Lincoln. Fall| flowers decorated the commissioner’s desk. Behind his chair are two sec- tional bookcases bearing the most ready | references and laws pertaining to the enforcement of prohibition. Dr. Doran expressed himself as we! | 1| are fireproof and modern, compared to | the old wooden war-time’ structures at Sixth and B streets southwest, where the Prohibition Bureau has been housed since it was moved from the old Hooe | Iron Building on F stréet, torn down | since to make way for the National | Press Building. e Only One-Third Moved. About 375 people are being moved by the Prohibition Bureau to the new lo- | cation, Dr.. Doran explained, and will occupy part of the first floor and all | of the second and third floors. The | bureau is now about one-third moved | from the old location. and it is expected | to complete the transfer about the mid- dle of the week. Dr. Doran, however, and his imme- diate assistants are all established in their new quarters, and there has been no interruption in the administration of the work. Important telephones | | this admission, having satisfied them- | selves that the husband could have reached his arm around the edge of the slightly opened door to toss the dress on the body. Reports that Me- Pherson told employes of the Park Lane he had been inside the bedroom and felt the body to see if it were cold were not corroborated in the in- vestigation. Much significance previously had been attached to the reports that Mc- Pherson entered the room, in the light o r of the apartment house, that e d to push the body away from the door in order to thrust his head and shoulders into the doorway. Certain significant discoveries made congerning the physical condition of Mrs. McPherson when she was treated’ for gas poisoning after an allegea tempt to end her life orr June 10, last, alse are sald to have heen made by the Federal operatives. Her condition at that time is said to have tallled closely with that which preceded her death September 12. f it be true that the Federal in- vestigators have received new evidence to support the suicide theory, it would but natural they would exhaust every avenue of inquiry suggesting mur- der before filing a final report. Failure to find proof that Mrs. McPherson was murdered undoubtedly would subject the department to criticism from some quarters. satisfled with his new quarters, which | Gy dcoarations Al o B The department is deter- | | Total Estimated Cost. | Representative Richard N. Elliott of | Indiana, chairman of the House com- | mittee on public buildings and grounds, members of the Public Buildings Com- | mission, who is recognized as the fa- ther of the public buildings program. has estimated that eventually it will lic buildings of the country in good shape to handle Uncle Sam’s business, ander a program covering 10 years. After conferences with other members of the commission, he said he feels that the authorization should be increased be carriea forward efficiently. “There is now an authorization of $35,000,000 a year to be expended—$25,- 000,000 for the country at large and $10,000,000 for - Washington,” Repre- ®ntative Elliott explained. is cught to be Increased at once to $50,- | 000,000 a year, of which $35000.000 would be spent in the States and $15,- 000,000 in Washington.” “There ought to be enough money authorized,” Elliott continued, “to | ish just as soon as possible all of the | Fuildings which are to be placed in the | ‘Mall triangle’ and to do whatever is | necessary to complete that job. There |1s an urgent need for them that the ‘work of the Government may be car- | ried along with economic efficiency. | Fast Dismantling Urged. “All the buildings on that area should cost about $500,000,000 to put the pub- ! | each year, as rapidly as the work can:! every way for the treasurership of the senatorial committee. Mr. Huston was not in the city and Senator Moses de- clined to say whether he had consulted the national chairman in advance about the appointment. 1t is known that the Senator and ni tional chairman have had several con- ferences lately at the Capitol, in which they began to outline the rl’ty cam- paign for next year, in which the party will seek to avoid losses, if not actually make gains, in the Senate and to hold control of the House of Representatives to prevent obstruction of President Hoover's policies in the middle of his administration. In these conferences, it is said to have been agreed that the party resources are apt to be put behind every Repub- ican Senator nominated. = whether “regular” or “insurgent,” which would mean that even Senator George W. Norris 'of ‘Nebraska, who bolted Presi- dent - Hoover's nomination last year, would have the aid of the Republican national committee, now controled by Mr. Hoover, if the Senator wanted it. But before that Mr. Norris may have to fight for a renomination, possibly against Nebraska’s new governor, Weaver, but he is so powerfully in- trenched in his home State that few political observers question his ability to win a renomination. FARM BOARD GIVES - $100,000,000 LOAN TO GRAIN GROWERS of a Connecticut manufacturer's repre- | the suggestion that the United States sentative sitting in the Department of | should participate in an international Commerce for two years past, gathering ' conference to determine the form of the statistics upon which a tarifl must | changes to be made in the calendar were connected in the new building be- | Mined the report must be so complete fore the old ones in the former loca- 38 to stand up under criticism from tlon were disconnected, so there would | Proponents of either theory. be no break in communication. | TS . of Virginia whereby half of the amount | is to be returned by the State within a period of five years. When advised | that it could, he replied: there, however. As Indicated several days ago by Maj Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of po- lice, only one charge, that of conduct | be torn down just as fast as they are acquired by the Government, except the | old Post Office Building and the South- | ern Railway Building, which are now be made, -working for a dollar a year so | far as the Government and the other concrete of the rep- | resentative of that association sitting in | the office of a Senator, attending pub- | lic hearings before the subcommittee, | and then going, but without the knowl- | edge or consent, be it said to their credit of the chairman and other mem- bers of that committee, in the executive | sessions of the finance committee.” Turning to Mr. Grundy and his tes- | timony before the lobby committee, | Senator George continued: | Turns to Grundy Testimony. | “So far as Mr. Grundy is concerned, he honestly believes in the high pro- tective theory carried to the ‘nth’ power and he believes it entirely legitimate to | come down here and to urge his views, and so it is, and nobody disputes it: but when he happens to have been the man who was responsible for the col- ! lection of something over $600,000 in | his own district in his State, :nd who had much to do with the collection of & million dollars expended in the last campaign for the election of the Presi- | dent of the United States and of such | members of the House and Senate as | were up for election, his presence in the gallery. his constant presence in the committee room, his constant pressure upon men of his party as well as tk men of other parties becomes an altc- gether different thing.” | Senator La Follette of Wisconsin | called attention to the fact that there were some Republican Senators who did not have the aid of the Grundy cam- paign funds when they fought for elec- tion—the Progressives in the Northwest. Borah Scores Grundy. Benator Borah of Idaho, who was scored by Grundy in a statement sub- mitted to the ‘lobby committee on Thursday, handled Mr. Grundy without | gloves. The Idaho Senator said: Far be it from me to suggest that & man of Grundy's character and char- acteristics and uncandidness and utter , want of integrity could have any influ- ence upon an individual Senator, but this did happen: Between the time that a special session wgs mentioned lasi Summer, or last Fall, in the campaign and the time that we came here i1 special session these same interests that | Mr. Grundy represents began theil fight to have this special session ex- | tended to taking in all the industrial | achedules. I venture to say that had | it not been for their influence here and | elsewhere—their persistent influence— | that we would have legislation in ac- | cordance with the intention of the spe- cial session and not in accordance with | the influence exerted by industrial in- terests.” Senator Walsh inserted in the record 8 table showing that of 52 leading in- dustries of Conrecticut the report of the Senate finance committee proposes | Taises in 44, while 7 are left as they are in existing tariff law and 1 re- duced. This, he said, was indicative of the “efficiency or effectiveness of Mr. Eyanson.” Senator Caraway told Senator Walsh he hoped that he would have schedules for Pennsylvania and New Jersey pre- pared and have then put in the record. May Recall Penn: “The lobby*committee, it is understood, will recall Mr. Grundy to the stand for further questioning, and Mr. Berah, who is & member of the committee, but who was not present when Grundy appeared before, may have some questions to put | great many received the largest affirmative vote. concerned, | The proposal that the present. calendar should be changed failed by the largest margin. The subject of calendar reform has been agitated for a number of years both here and abroad. The League of Nations, the International Chamber of Commerce and the International Astronomical Union are among the organizations which have given it study. The committee reporting the League of Nations recommended that attention should be centered on three funda- mental questions: 1. Should the divisions of the year in the present calendar be so changed that there will be greater uniformity in length and consequently better com- parability? 2. Should the weeks be fixed in their relations to the diversions of the year in which they occu 3. How should the form of the changes be determined? Thirteen Months Favored. Majority members of the Chamber's committee developed individual prefer- ences respecting a 12-month plan and a 13-month plan, with the 13-month plan receiving most favor. The problem attending the wide variance year by year in Easter dates received the attenticn of the Cham- ber's committee, which pointed out the inconvenience of the present arrange- ment. The committee’s minority members frankly opposed any calendar chang In their separate report they said “Generally speaking, the civilized world does now possess, or is rapidiy coming to possess, a calendar enjoving substantial uniformity. The infiiction of & new calendar having radical de- partures from the present, or attempt- ing to improve it, would mean annay- ance to millions of people, would bring great discomfiture to great sects which view the present calendar with religious loyalty, and would offer nothing of sub- stantiul value to any single busi which that business cannov rnjoy now it it will. he aaily use of the calendac vitalls concerns the intimate habits and \icws of vast millions of people in this ¢ un- try. The proposal o agitate a refoim in the calendar as presentea has no popular backing worth menfioning. 1t omes 1o this Cnamber with the studied support of but few people. A large group has been circularized and, as often happens with catchy ideas, & people, many of them of business prominence, are giving this proposal their endorsement, without deep thinking. We have not learnca hat these people are giving else but {Lip servic: toward the iurtherance of the idea, thoungh apparently a siderable sum of money is being spen | to_launc t year” men on its pay roll Walsh called attenton that the department. { | terday, paving the way for considerati | this week of the more controversia {items in this section. Only one record vote was taken, such a practice. Ten more minor amendments to the chemicals, oils and paints rate schedulc to_him. 4 The Senate adopted without debate o1 roll call & resolution presented by Cara- increase chusetts, to it dren’s paint con- | Commerce to submit a list of “dollar-a- Senator | sey, member of the Highway Commis. Joseph Wuichet of the Connecticut Manufac- wurers’ Association had told the commit- | tee he was a “dollar-a-ycar” man for Senator Walsh also | quoted Lhe law, which he said prohibited of the tariff bill were disposed of yes- anal that defeated by 52 to 19 an amendment by Senator Gfllett, Republican, Massa- the duties on |ballr | "“That is a very favorable arrange- ment."” Following a general discussion of the highway problems faced by Virginia |as a result of the anticipated early | completion of the Arlington Memorial | Bridge, Gov. Byrd announced that, | “although I cannot promise any one highway because of the consideration | that I must give to the Virginia State | | Highway Commission, I fully realize | the necessity for immediate action by | the State, so I, as Governor of Virginia, | will call & conference in the executive ! offices at Richmond between Federal, | State and county authorities to work |out a plan that will be acceptable to | all concerned.” Authoritative Body Needed. Continuing his announced policy of co-operation vith Col. Grant, Gos Byrd announced that he is in sympathy with the former’s plaint that there is not now a body clothed with the proper | authority to co-operate with the N tional Capital Park and Planning Com- | mission in the acquisition of park lands and other development contemplated by the Federal body, and that he will recommend the creation of such & body |upon presentation of the matter offi- | cinlly by the county representatives to the General Assembly. Col. Grant explained the satisfactory work of the Maryland Park and Plan~ ning Commission to the State execu- | tive, who replied that he would favor a similar body in Virginia, either in |the creation of a new commission or | the clothing of the present Virginia | Park and Planning Commission, which |is an advisory body, with the necessary authority. Gov. Byrd arrived in Arlington County at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon |in response to an invitation extended to him by officials of the local Cham- ber of Commerce. Tour of Inspection. | He immediately started upon the tour of Inspection, a ompanied by Col. Grant, Mr. Brumba Fred A. bua'ncll, chairman of the Arlington County Zon- |ing Commission; Willam L. Bragg | Cltairman. of the Virginia Park and | Planning Commission; County Super- | Edward Duncan and E. C. Tumn- burke, several technical employes of the Federal body, members of the board of directors of the trade body and a num- ber of other men prominent in the af- fairs of Northern Virginia. : | their return the delegation gathered at the Washington Golt and Country Club, whe they were ad- dressed by Col. Grant, who explained the Cramton bill and ‘made his plea for an official connection; Charles W. Eliot, 2nd. city planner of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, who explained by the aid of maps the commission’s plans for the future de- velopment of Arlington County; Ashton C. Jones of the boar dof directors of the Chamber cf Commerce; Wade H. M | i i sion in direct control of the Northern Virginia area, and others. CITY CLUB TO DANCE. Halloween dance Thursday night, from 110 oclock to 2 am. the event being limited to members and their guests. David McWilllams and the City Club Syncopators, with Phil O'Brien dires ing, have arranged a novel program In preparation fgg the first holida: dance of the seasBn, the club is being decorated with pumpkins and the main stage also is deco- The City Club will hold its annual| prejudicial to the reputation, good or- der and discipline of the force. The same charge also was preferred against Allen, but another was added, that of “insubordination.” 1In three specifica- tions listed under the general charge against Doyle, however, it was held that his official repart to Maj. Pratt in de- of Allen “clearly” indicated “in- Twe Charges Against Allen. Four specifications are listed under the two gharges against Allen, three under the®harge of conduct prejudicial | to the reputation, good order and di pline of the force and one under the | specific charge of “insubordination.” | The charges against both Doyle and | Allen are based entirely on_their offi- | cial communications to Maj. Pratt. The specifications contain liberal extracts from each. The formal charges served | on the two officers also were accom- | panied by copies of their own reports to the police superintendent which have been made part of the charges. In the specifications of the charges | against Doyle, Maj. Pratt. who signed | them as the complaining witness, alleges that the accused officer, in his report, “without justification, cause or excuse, states that the Police Department as a vhole held animosity” against Allen, ‘clearly indicating insubordination and disrespect_towards his superior officer, Maj, Henry G. Pratt.” Such action, it was held=constituted “discredit of the Metropolitan Police Department.” In Allen's charges, however, it was not alleged that the officer's letter consti- tuted “‘disrespect” of the police force. May Ask Civi'ian Board. Aside from considering the advis- ability of asking the Commissioners to create a special civilian board to try | Capt. Doyle, his attorneys also, it was learned, may ask for a postponement in the trial because of the ahsence from ‘Washington of several important char- ucter witnesses. Indications ‘e that character witnesses are to be used ex- tensively in the officer’s defense. Capt. Doyle is said to look favor- ably upon the appointment of & civillan board to determine his innocense or guilt of Maj. Pratt’s charges, particu- larly in view of the possible embarass- ment it might cause members of the police trial board in trying him. Al of the members of the re-organized police board, as well as the substitute alter- nates named by Maj. Pratt, it was pointed out, have been closely associ- ated with Capt. Doyle in his 40 years of service, and all of the captains on the board are his junior in the point of service. | i | Board of Business Men. A board of three business men rather than three officials of the District gov- ernment such as was constituted by the Commissioners to try Capt. Guy E. Burlingame, retired commander of the second precinct on the sensational charges of Mrs. Helen F. said, would meet with t. Doyle’s approval, Although both Doyle and Allen have been ordered to appear before the trial board Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock, there is a strong likelihood that neither will go on trial at this time. Allen al- (ready has announced he would seek |a continuance as well as a special ci- vilian trial board similar in make-up to the one under consideration for Capt Doyle’s trial. If Doyle's counsel decided that the character witnesses who are away are necessary, they too, will ask for continuance. paEing- OHIO TRIP MAY BE LAST FOR HOOVER | DURING HIS TERM | __(Continued From First Page) | | cities somewhat in the same section or else en route to drop off and have some- thing to say or to appear at some local function. As much as Mr. Hoover likes travel- ing. he has come to the conclusion during the short time he has been in the White House that there is very little pleasure traveling as President. He has found out that moving around as President is far different from trav- eling as a private citizen or even as a cabinet officer or presidential candi- date. Moreover, Mr. Hoover has no taste for oratory. He enjoys meeting people from different sections and exchanging views and ideas with them. but he de- | tests getting up on a platform and aking a set speech. It is hard to tell ‘hich he dislikes most, the writing of | a speech or the delivery of it. | YOUTHFUL BANDITS GET LOOT OF $100 IN STORE HOLD-UP _(Continued From | | t Page.) seated. The cash register on the soda counter was not touched. In oontained about $20. Waving thelr weapons in, the aif, the landits turned to leave. “Any funny | stuff from you guys.” one said. “and T'll plug you all. Keep away from that | window until we have gone. Goldberg said he followed the men 10 the door and threw a small medicine bottle at them as they ran around the corner. He believes they left in an automobile. The bandits were described as neatly dressed yuunf men about 21 or 22 years old. The police are Investigating. O. H. Basseches, proprietor of the store, was not in during the robbery. I and Marlae Corps service records to combat a report submitted to Maj. Pratt by a committee of three police men that he had been wearing on his uniform campaign stripes to which he was not entitled. Aroused by the attack on his military | C decorations, Allen issued a_statemen last night, declaring that Maj. Pratt and the police should aid him in solv ing several major crimes instead of “wasting” time in attacking him. Allen’s statement follows: e “The police have arrested me 8even or eight times as well as taking me to the trial board on other numerous oo- casions, but I must confess this latest| move of theirs takes me by ise. 1 certainly wear service ribbons on my uniform coat. They stand for some of the medals given me by my Govera-| ment during my many years of mili~ tary service with the U, 8. Army during the war and later with the Marine Pratt and his men will only waste the time they spend in making rsonal attacks «+n me. They might tter, to my mind, aid in assisting me several -majo) itz tais ! In pursuance of this policy, the Ju: tice agents yesterday re-examined sev eral persons whose statements already had filled many pages in the volumes of recorded testimony. Among these was & taxicab driver who had recalled taking & young man from the Park Lane apartments to Georgia avenue and Up- shur street on or about the night of September 12, when Mrs. McPherson met her death. This chauffer, it is understood, at no time was able to iden- | tify his passenger, or even to be sure | t His story first was told to local detective bureau and later to the grand jury. He thinks he picked this passenger up between 8:30 and 8:45 o'clock. McPherson, in his accounting of his movements on the night of the traged: is reported to have told of calling taxicab to take him to Upshur street after paying a brief visit to his wife apartment abdut 8 o'clock on the night of September 12. | So far as is known publicly, the De- | partment of Justice has been unable | to find any flaw in McPherson's story of his movement on that night. Another person_interrogated yester- day was Eliot H. Thompson, fellow em- | ploye of McPherson at a local bank and the man who, in his off-time capacity of minister, united the McPherson's in marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have told of paying & visit to Mrs. Mc- Pherson on the day before she died. ‘They have been questioned several times | regarding thir knowledge of reported marital difficulties between the young | couple. TENNESSEEANS PLAN FETE FOR SENATOR! W. E. Brock to| Mr. and Mrs. Be Honored Satur- day. The Tennessee State Society Will give a reception and dance next Saturday evening in honor of Senator W. E.| Brock of Tennessee and Mrs. Brock. It ' will be the society's first affair of the| season. Many prominent Tennesseeans in the Capital have been invited to meet the new Senator. The reception will be held at 2400 Sixteenth street at 9 o'clock and will be followed by dancing until midnight. Among the native sons invited are Justice Sanford and Justice McReynolds | of the United States Supreme Court, the congressional group from Tennesses dius Huston, chairman of the Re publican nationai committee; Brig. Gen. Lytle Brown, chief of engineers of the | Army, and Maj. Gen. Willlam C. Rivers, inspector general of the Army. There l-.:e about 1,200 Tennesseeans in Wash- ORDER TO HOLD DANCE. Royal Arcanum Arranges for 52 Anniversary Event. The Royal Arcanum will hold a dance in celebration of the fifty-second ! anniversary of the issuancé of its charter, in Odd Fellows' Temple, 419 Seyenth street, Tuesday evening, No- vember §. Plans are in progress to make thé; occasion one of the ouuundl% events nization’s. n of activi- | being .used very advantageousty. It | will take up to $75,000,000 more for this | work on the Mall triangle development, fand I am ready to push the legislation | to authorize expeditious action. “There ought also to be another $100,000,000 authorized for Federal buildings throughout the States, to com= plete the work tabulated in the inter- | departmental _committee’s report. I | believe that Congress will vote favor- | ably upon such legislation, the merits of which are so well understood, espe- clally since the members have already committeed thmselves to this program. more appropriations for the National Capital is explained as vital because of the fact that the first_ buildings have taken up more than $48.000,000 of the $50,000,000 already authorized by Congress to be spent here. Of these buildings underway, the De- partment of Agriculture administration building is farthest advanced, the In- ternal Revenue Building is next and Department of Commerce third in progress of construction. Archives Building Ahead. Also included in the original alloc tion of funds is the Archives Build- ing. for which Congress has already authorized $6,900,000 and appropriated | $1,000,000, but for which plans are not! as yet completed. Louis A. Simon, head | of “the architectural divislon of the supervising architect’s office of the Treasury, is now en route home from Europe, where he made a lengthy sur- vey of the old archives buildings of Europe, for the purpose of laying fundamental plans for the American Archives structure. Among buildings which are planned for the Mall triangle, which are sorely needed now by the Federal Government, and for which it is proposed the new appropriations be made, in addition to the original $50,000,000, are the De- partment of Labor, to go on the site of the Potomac Electric Power Co. plant, at Fourteenth and B streets; the Interstate Commerce Commission, | to be located along B street, just east of the Department of Labor: Inde- pendent Offices Building, and Depart- ment of Justice. These structures could not be built under the present limita- tion of $50.000,000, as more than $48,000,000 will be used up in buildings ; previously allocated to this sum. Preliminary sketches for these addi- tional buildings, however, are being drawn by architects under contract with the Government, by special authority of Congress, and it is expected that a definite estimate of their individual costs of construction will be compiled from these plan: The buildings are being constructed to conform generally to the plans as revealed in the interesting model show- ing the entire group of buildings in the Mall triangle. This model is now on view in the first floor, west lobby, of the Treasury Building, near the en- trance facing the White House. Another big building in the Govern- ment building program, for which Con- gress already has authorized and ap- propriated, is the so-called “extensible” structure for the Department of Agri- culture, which is to go on B street southwest, opposite the present build- ings of the department. Congress has authorized a total of $5,750,000 for this huge building, and the first two squares of land for this are now well along in condemnation proceedings. As soon as title passes to the Govern- ment, contracts will be let for construc- tion of the first unit, to occupy about ne square-of h gl o8 (Continued From First Page.) | be so loaned. Nearly $100,000,000 is available for the purpose and, if neces- sary, the board will also ask Congress to appropriate more. “Requests for facility loans should be taken up through the Farmers' Na- -tional Grain Corporation.” Election of officers and unanimous adoption of articles of incorporation and by-laws brought the organization of the Farmers' National Grain Cor- poration close to completion today. Officers Are Elected. ‘The following officers were chcsen by the organization’s committee of 16 members, selected several weeks ago by grain growers' representatives from throughout the country: 8. J. Cottington, Stanhope, Iowa, presiden! . E. Huff, Salina, Ka vice president; L. E. Webb, Dodge City, Kans., secretary-treasurer. An executive committee was chosen, consisting of J. J. Knight, Kansas City, ans.; P. N. Sloan, Sioux Falls, S. Dak. William H. Settle, Indianapolis, Ind. and John Manley, Enid, Okls The incorporating board o is composed of the following: Messrs. Cottington, Huff, Webb, Settle, Manley, Sloan, Knight and M. W. Thatcher, St. Paul, Minn.: George Duis, Grand Forks, N. Dak.; Ernest R. Kans.; H. G. Kenney, E. G. McCollum, In- Lawrence Farlow, Bloomington, P. A. Zee, Grand Forks, N. Dak.; S. M. Thompson, Chi- cago. and L. J. Taber, Columbus, Ohio. Officers will hold terms extending un- til April 1, when the first annual meet- ing of the corporation is to take place. Headquarters are to be in Chicago. Must Select Manager. _ Minor corrections in the articles of incorporation were telegraphed Washington tonight to be inserted 'n the final draft, which will probably be filed in Delaware Monday. The arti- cles are expected to be made pubiic Tuesday from Washington. One of the first major tasks for the board of directors s selection of a gen- eral manager. “The manager will not necessarily be a grain man.” according to Sam R. Mc- Kelvie of Nebraska, Farm Board mem- ber, who attended today's meeting “But he must be a good organizer and an able executive.” Although members of the Farm Board and grain men at the meeting declared they did not know who the general manager would be, there were reports that Mr. Settle was being seri- ously considered. * EX-DIPLOMAT DIES. Lawrence directors Lanier Winslow Suc- cumbs at Age of 45. NEW YORK, October 26 (#).—Law- rence Lanier Winslow, former member of the diplomatic service, died today at his Park avenue home. He was 45 years old and was associated with a banking and brokerage firm. Mr. Winslow was private secretary to James W. Gerard, former Ambassador to Germany, before the entry of the United States into the World War, and later became first secretary of the embassy at the Court of 8t. James when John W. Davis was Ambassador. He subsequently filled W" in Mexi City, Santiago and 1