Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1929, Page 2

2 % THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON D. C.. MONDAY, .OC BRIAND ACGEPTS PLAGE IN GABINET Ex-Premier to Be Daladier’s Foreign Minister, After Record in That Office. By the Associated 8. | PARIS, October 28 —France, probably within the next two or three days, will | have a largely Socialist government— | the first in the history of the third | republic—comparable to those in power now in Great Britain and in Germany.' Headed by Edouard Daladier, young Radical-Socialist. leader, the cabinet | which he will propose to President Doumergue to succeed that of Aristide | Briand, resigned last weck, probably will have the most highly leftist com- ¢ plexion France has ever known. Actual Socialist participation in the new cabinet will not be authorized un- il tonight when the national council of the party of Leon Blum meets. Politi- clans accepted as a foregone conclusion that its members would be authorized to collaborate with M. Daladier. Briand Accepts Post. Of as great importance as the im- minent advent of such & Socialist government was announcement of ac- ceptance of the foreign affairs port-‘ folio by M. Briand, who has held that ! post In successive cabinets of Raymond Poincare and in his own. M. Delardier's supporters expect M. Briand’s inclusion in the cabinet would bring from 50 to 60 votes from the moderate groups in Parliament. These, plus the 124 Radical votes and the 101 Soclalist votes, will give M. Daladier a workable, if slim, majority. Speculation Over Cabinet. There was much specultion today as to the composition of the Daladier cabi- net. It was believed he would retain the all-important interior portfolio in addition to the premiership. Some ex- pected many hitches to develop between ‘the Radical-Socialists and the Soctalists in the distribution of the various posts. There was possibility M. Daladier would announce his cabinet late Tues- day, or early Wednesday, and would go before the Chamber of Deputies with it Thursday, in view of his success yester- day in securing Socialist collaboration nd the inclusion of M. Briand at least temporary success in the Chamber was looked for. . HILL CHILDREN BEG CHEWING TOBACCO FROM D. C. PARTY (Continued From First Page.) the party of scientific investigators which included Dr. Mandel Sherman, director of the Washington Child Re- search Center; Dr. John C. Eckhardt, Washington child specialist, associated Wwith the center, and Dr. Paul E. Howe, biochemist of the Department of Agri- culture, They succeeded in rounding up a considerable group of mountain children in the neighborhood of the Hicholson Mountain schoolhouse, the scene of a colorful experiment in moun- tain education this Summer. ; In their visits to the cabins they were especially interested in the preparations for Winter, when the people apparently have no source of revenue and must live until Spring on what has been stored away in the Fall. The Corbin Hollow people now have harvested their tiny corn patches and some have taken the grain to a mountain mill, four miles away, to be ground into meal. Other cabins showed the corn, still on the cob, packed away under the crude beds ahd in the small, low lofts where the children sleep, the piles of | ragged bedding almost hidden under the golden ears and the cabbages. Corn mieal and cabbages evidently are the chief Winter diet. Dr. Eckhardt made several prelimi- nary physicial examinations and was impressed with the tobacco chewing habit of the children. He was not ajle to determine whether this had any sérious consequences, or Was in any way responsible for tife lethargy of the liitle boys and girls. Bad Living Conditions. Living conditions in the cabins, Dr. E¢hhardt said, “were unbelievable” and he was enthusiastic over the possibilities offered by such isolated and backward communities for the study of various health - problems and the relation of physical condition to mentality. The children, he said, constitute a ready- made control group, whose characteris- tics can be checked against groups of children living under more favorable circumstances. ‘Any conclusions on the diet of the people are impossible from such a short survey, Dr. Howe said, but he was of the opinion that it was just sufficiently balanced to be adequate, provided there is enough of it. The slender stores and the large families make this rather questionable. Probably the saving fea- ture of the Winter diet is the cabbage, he sald, which contains essential vitamins. Women complained that the cabins were very cold in Winter, snow drift- ing into the lofts and through the floors. Winter, falling upon the moun- tains in an unexcelled glory of red and | geld, frightens the women with the prospect of long months of complete | isolation. Bright Toys Given Away. Dr. Eckhardt distributed a collection of 10-cent store toys among the chil- dren, which_attracted the little ones because of their bright colors. While children elsewhere already are looking forward to Christmas and Santa Claus, none of the mountain children talked with yesterday ever had heard of the patron saint of the nursery. Some said they had heard of Christmas, but when asked what the day meant to them re- plied that it was “fest Christmas.” Apparently there was no idea of the meaning of the festival. Parents know about Christmas because of Christmas trees which used to be held for them by G. Freeman Pollock, proprietor of Skyland. But apparently they are not passing on the tradition The same language difficulty which was experienced by visiting psycholo- gists a month #go in trying to apply standard mental tests to the children was encountered vesterday in trying to determine just what is in the minds of the children. For example, a child who replied that Christmas was “jest Christmas” was asked if she had ever heard of Christ. “Ye-aa." “Who was He?" “It's the Lo-ard.” “What is the Lord?" “It's jest the Lo-ard.” God Not Understood. A little later a child explained that God was “a thing to keep the hands warm,” although the word was repeated to _her several times. But, it was explained, this may not mean very much siace the children may have a better concept of Christmas and its associations, which they cannot put into words. Dr. Sherman is especially interested in the heredity-environment aspect of the mountain situation after analyzing the results of the mental tests which he applied on his last visit, He was im- pressed with the fact that both children and adults seemed to remember little incidents connected with the previous visit, which . speaks well for their ability to learn, once outside contacts and stimulations are provided for them. IMeantime the Nicholson Mountain 8chool, which has been in session only !'a military air force by cending two fly- Gets Award || “second Bismarck,” died at 6:50 am. HERBERT PU' | PUTHAM RECEIVES ROOSEVELT MEDAL Young and Wister Also Win! Trophy—Tribute Is Paid Ex-President. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 28.—Navy day, usually celebratcl on October 27, the anniversary of the birth of Theodore Roosevelt, was observed today on ships at sea and in port. Ships in port’ kept open house, with the public invited to visit and inspect the country’s fighting craft. The fleet of lighter-than-air craft at Lakehurst, N. J., was ordered out, including the Los Angeles and the new all-metal dirigible, to cruise over Atlantic coast cities, Bestowal of the Theodore Roosevelt medal for distinguished service upon Owen D. Young, author of the repara- | tions plan; Robert Putnam, librarian of Congress, and Owen Wister, novelist, marked the observance of the seventy- first anniversary of Roosevelt's birthday yesterday. Radio Carries Hughes' Speech. A speech of_tribute to Roosevelt by Charles Evans Hughes was broadcast by radio. At,Oyster Bay exerclses marking the day included a flight by nine airplanes flying in V formation, led by Clarence D. Chamberlin, transatlaatic pilot, over Roosevelt's grave. Flowers were dropped by the fiyers. The planes took off from Roosevelt Field, N. Y., which was named for Col. Rooseveli’s son Quentin, who was kilied in France. Presentation of the Roosevelt medals was made at & dinner at Roosevelt House, on East Twentieth street, Col. Roosevelt's birthplace. Mr. Hughes, in his tribute to Roose- velt, said: “Great as his service was, he greatest service, that of shaping the ideals of our youth, is yet to come.” Tablet Is Put in Pew. A bronze tablet bearing the inscrip- tion “The pew of Theodore Rooseveit, twenty-sixth President of the United States, for 30 vears, from July 1, 1888, until his death, January 6, 1919, now endowed in his_memory,” was unveiled in Christ Episcopal Church, Oyster Bay. ‘The tablet was unveiled by Archibaid Roosevelt. Kermit Roosvelt, Col. Roose~ velt’s widow, Mrs. Richard Derby, for- merly Ethel Roosevelt, and Dr. Derby attended the ceremony. Completes 30th Year of Service. Herbert Putnam, recipient of one of the Roosevelt medals for 1929, recently completed his 30th year as librarian of Congress, coming here from the Boston Public Library. A lawyer by profession, with degrees from Harvard and Columbia, Mr. Put- nam has devoted the best part of his life to the administration and develop- ment of great libraries. During his administration the Library of Congress has advanced from “a pro- vincial collection,” as it was described in the medal citation, to what is prob- ably the largest collection of books un- der one roof in the world, with spe- clalized departments which bring to ‘Washington scholars from all countries, He has made the library a center of Am;ricfln scholarship and research work. Mr. Putnam has devoted special at- tention to making the Library of Con- gress & national library, the depository of complete data on the history and life of the United States. Its manu- script collection alone is of intestimable value. During the past few years, sev- eral chairs have been established for specialized departments by grants from individuals and foundations. U. S. TO AID REPUBLIC. The Army Air Corps will assist the | Republic of San Salvador to establish | | ing instructors there. Flight instruc- | tion s to be given in three two-place Waco planes recently purchased from the American manufacturers by the government of San Salvador. The War Department has ordered Maj. Gen, Malin Craig, commandcr of the Panama Canal Department, to as- sign two qualified Air Corps pilots from Panama to San Salvador as instructors for a period of about one month, Autos Gain in Iceland. Ponies, Iceland's leading form of transportation, are being supplanted by the American automobile. Sizer, a mountain school supervisor, whose work attracted national atten- tion. Stimulated by this, the county assigned & man teacher to keep the school open this Winter. Grew Tired of It. “But he got tired of it after a few day: sald Bailey Nicholson, moun taineer and former preacher, who owns the school building. “I guess it ain't no use trying to have schoolin’ up here.” Mr. Nicholson is the most pro- gressive of the people in this area, was away to a religious school in his youth, and has made earnest efforts to raise | the standard of living of his neighbors. At the same time he gave a bit of | typical mountain psychology when asked |1t there was no school within reason- | able distance to which the children might go. He replied that the nearest was 3 miles away and that children | could not be expected to walk 6 miles & day. | s surely would have caused a smile from children of sturdy ploneers in other sections of the country. But these are not children of sturdy pioneers. The preacher’s log barn was burned down last week. The fire, which started late at night, came near spreading to the schoolhouse. He is sure the fire was set, and thinks the vandalism may have had some connection with his efforts to have the school kept open. Meanwhile the teacher had gone to Dark Hollow, another nearby mountain community which long has been with- ' by SECOND BISMARCK, - VON BUELOW, DIES | Former German Chancellor, | 80, Once “Broke Pride of Wilhelm.” | By the Associated Press. | ROME, October 28.—Prince Bernhard ‘von Buelow, former chancellor of the German empire, once called Germany's today at the villa left him by his wife, the former Italian Princess Maria Bec- cadella di Bologna, with whom eloped in 1886. He was 80 years old. The prince had been ill for several days, although it was not until he con- racted a heavy cold last week that his | condition was regarded as serious. He had been weakened with grief at his wife’s death last January. Prince von Buelow was a former Am- bassador to Italy and held other dip- lomatic posts in Europe. In 1900 he was made chancellor, and subsequently was put often to appearances before the Reichstag in defense of the Emperor. He_was said, after an_interview by the Emperor with the London Daily Telegraph, in October, 1908, to have roken Wilhelm's pride, demanding and receiving from him a promise to cur- tail the royal tongue, He retired from the chancellorship in 1909. War Appeal Recalled. When the war started, in 1914, Von Buelow issued an appeal to all Ger- mans to “defend” the fatherland. A few days later his brother was killed in the fighting before Liege, Belgium. In December of that year Von Buelow went to Rome as German Ambassador, a post he had filled years before. With- in a month he was reported to have spent $400,000 in a pro-German pub- licity campaign to keep Italy out of the war and was charged with attempt- ing to overthrow the Salandra ministry. Upon Italy’s declaration of war on Austria in May, 1915, Von Buelow left Rome with his staff and returned to Berlin. For the next two years or more his name was mentioned in connection with various peace overtures by the central_powers. Just before the col- lapse of Germany Von Buelow was ad- vocated for & return to the chancellor- ship by the Conservatives and Centris but was stoutly opposed by the Social- ists. In November, 1918, the former Emperor_having fled to Holland, Von Buelow issued an appeal to the people to recall the fugitive. The revolution which followed made the once famous premier a refugee himself. Von Buelow's residence in Switzer- land was beclouded in 1919 at the trial | in Zurich of 28 alleged pro-German | Toyalist revolutionists and _dynamite | plotters when he was accused in court | of being the “brains” of the conspiracy to restore the Hohenzollern monarchy. One of the alleged archplotters was Von Buelow’s private secretary. When | the former chancellor was accused by Dr. Enderli, a Swiss Socialist deputy, of complicity in the conspiracy the prince sued him for libel and the Swiss grand council returned a finding in favor of | the man who made the charges. Short- | ly afterward it was announced that | Von Beulow would be appointed per- manent Ambassador to Italy by the German government. Plans had been made for his arrival in Rome when it was published there that his presence was undesirable, whereupon he re- mained in Switzerland. Antagonized War Chancellor. Prince von Buelow was a bitter critic | of Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, the war | chancellor. He denied that the decla- ration of war was “inevitable.” In sketching his own career as chancellor he told how he was able to avold war and said that Von ann-Hollweg “Jacked political art. During the grive weeks before the conflict,” he wrote, “serfous psychologi- cal, diplomatic_and political ‘mistakes were made by Germany's political lead- ers, which were ul\jusfi_lly attributed to the people.” In the early stages of the war Von Buelow made several efforts to bring about peace when it was seen the central powers could not win. ‘When he was sent to Rome in 1914 | by the former Emperor he succeeded in delaying for months Italy's declaration of war on Austria. Called to Switzer- Jand, ostensibly by the illness of his wife, he paid frequent visits to a mon- astery in. the Canton of Grigloni, where a number of Jesuits of German | origin were stationed. It was later re-( vealed that the object of Von Buelow's trips were to instruct the monks to act in concert in petitioning the Pope to take steps to bring about peace. Von Buelow visited other monasteries for this purpose. 1t 'V:lls while he was first Ambassador to Rome in 1897 that the former Em- peror ordered his appointment as sec- retary of state for foreign affairs. In this post he became chiefly responsible for the policy of German colonial ex- pansion. In 1899, upon telephoning to Berlin his success in concluding a treaty with Spain whereby Germany acquired the Caroline Islands, Von Bue- low recelved over the wire the reply that the Emperor had made him a count. On the resignation of Prince Hohenlohe, in 1900, Von Buelow suc- ceeded him as chancellor. In 1805, when he had caused the downfall of the French foreign minister, Theophile Delcasse, by checking France from further en- croachments in Morocco, the then Em- peror rewarded him with the title of prince “as a token of my gratitude for your services to my dynasty and em- pire.” One of the best remembered in- cidents of Prince von Buelow's power behind the throne, previously referrd to, was his triumph in 1908 in curbing the impulsive utterances of William IL It was precipitated when the London Telegraph published an interview in which the former Emperor was credited, among other indiscreet things, with having said that a majority of the Ger-. man people were hostile to Great Britain. 30 PRIESTS AT MASS HELD FOR MRS. CARROLL Funeral Services Today for Cath- olic Minister's Mother, Who Died Suddenly Friday. Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret E. Carroll, 79 years old, who died from | heart attack while entering St. Paul's| Catholic Church Friday night, were held this morning at 10 o'clock at the church, Fifteenth and V_streets, with her son, Rev. William E. Carroll, pastor | of the Church of Assumption officiating. Requiem mass was celebrated witn more than 30 Washington priests in at- tendance. Right Rev. John M. Mc- Namara, auxiliary bishop of the Catholic archdiocese _of Baltimorc; Right_Rev. Albert E. Smith, editor of the Baltimore Catholic Review, and Rev, A. Fontaine, of St. Paul's Catholic Church, also were present. Interment was in Mount Olivet Cemetery. The pallbears were Andrew I. Hickey, Maurice M. Moore, John Connell, Frank San Fellipo, Francis Wahler and Harry E. Rogers. | 1 | 1 Heads D. C. Group of Bar Asso- ciation. Maj. Julius I. Peyser, Washington lawyer, was elected vice president for the District of Columbia of the Amer- ican Bar Association, holding conven- out & school. This near President for a few months in the last 20 years, is cl again. It forms a part of the county school system of Madison County, Va. It was kept for two months this Summer by m‘flfllm Hoover's camp. When the children go to the new school which the President is having built they will have been polished up a little, tion last week in Memphis, Tenn. Charles D. Hamel, James Creig Pea- cock, South Trimble, jr., and Benjamin :{islunden were elected to the coun- LY he | I pam Commiittee Clerk JAMES RING. CAPPER APPOINTS COMMITTEE CLERK James Ring, Local News- paper Man, Is Named to Post. James Ring, local newspaper man, to- day was appointed clerk to the Senate | District committee by Chairman Cap- per, and will begin his new duties No- vember 1. He succeeds Oscar H. Brink- man, who has resigned to open a law office. The new assistant to the committee is & native Washingtonian, having been born here November 21, 1901, the son of Timothy M. and Mary A. Ring. He at- tended St. Dominic's School and Gon- zaga College High School. After a year of service in the Treas- ury Department, he became interested in newspaper work and obtained a posi- tion in the Washington bureau of the Baltimore Sun, later joining the staffs of the Washington Times and Wash- ington Herald. In 1921 he became sec- retary of the Consolidated Publishing Co. and took part in publishing a “Who's Who in the Nation's Capital” that year. The following year he re- turned to the news staff of the Times. In recent years he has been assigned to the Capitol. 'HIGH COURT TO GET WURZBACH CHARGE U. S. Supreme Tribunal Will Re- view Accusation Against Ex-Texas Lawmaker. By the Associated Press. Proceedings brought by the Govern- ment against former Representative Harry M. Wurzbach, Republican, Texas, charging he had used unlawful contri- butions from Federal office holders in his campaign for re-election, wer today held to be entitled to a Supreme Court review, The court announced that the Gov- ernment had presented a case within its jurisdiction and that the case would be Teviewed on its merits, ‘Wurzbach, residing at Seguin, Tex., had represented the fourteenth dis- trict in Congress as a Republican for four teams and was a candidate for re- election to the present Congress. He contested the election of his Demo- cratic opponent. He was indicted and charged with having recelved as a Representative in Congress _ political contributions from certain Federal officeholders. The in- ‘dictment was set aside by the trial court on the ground that the contribu- tions were to be used for primary elec- tion purposes and that the statnte un- der which he had been indicted was not intended to cover such contributions. The trial court also held that if the statute did cover primary elections it probably was unconstitutional. BOMBS USED IN STRIKE. New Orleans Street Car and Two Non-Union Homes Hit. NEW ORLEANS, October 28 (#).— Street car strike violence broke out again today with the bombing of a street car and two homes, which police said were occupied by non-union motor- men and conductors. Both the houses were badly damaged, but the occupants were unhurt. AT FUNERAL OF oo NEGROLIFE STUDY SESSIONS OPENED | {Educational, Welfare | % | Religious Leaders of Many Sections Here. and| | 'TOBER 28, 1929. Attended by prominent educational, ! welfare and religious leaders from | | many sections, the annual convention | of the Association for-the Study of | | Negro Life and History opened yester- | day afternoon with a public mass ! meeting at Lincoln Temple Congrega- | tional Church, Eleventh and R streets. Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, president |of Howard University, made the ad- | dress of welcome. “Acquainting the Negro Child With His Forebears” was the subject of an address by Mrs. H. R. Butler of Atlanta, Ga,, president of | Congress. Mrs. | |the Parent-Teacher Charlotte Hawkins Brown of the Palmer Memorial Institute, Sedalla, IN. C., spoke on “The Value of the Written Record.” The presiding of- | | ficer was Miss Jane E. Hunter of the | Phyllis Wheatley Association of Cleve- land, Ohio. A tea for the delegates was given by the college alumnae of Washington last night at their clubhouse, 1901 Eighteenth street. Miss Eliza . Ship- pen is president of the organization. Dinner This Evening. ‘There being no morning session to- day, the delegates will be the guests at a get-acquinted dinner at the White- law Hotel at 5:30 o'clock this evening. | This dinner will be given by business and professional men of the city. Dr. J. Hayden Johnson, a, member cf the Board of Education, will be toast- master, There will be addresses by Dr, B. P Hurst and Mrs. Julla W. Hamilton of Washington, with responses from Dr. John M. Gandy, president of Virginia State College, Petersburg, Va., |and F. M. Wood, supervisor of the Bal- timore public schools. A pageant, “When Truth Gets a Hearing,” will be presented at the Arm- strong High School, First and O streets, at 8 o'clock by the students of the Ni (mnlfl.l Training School for Women and Girls. ‘Tomorrow Registration Day. The sessions of the convention will be held at the Garnet-Patterson School, Vermont avenue and V street. Tomor- Tow is registration day. A round table discussion of Negro history in the pro- gram of the Young Peoples’ Literary | and Religious Socleties will be held at 11 o'clock. The convention will close | Thursday with a tour of historical | ptaces in and near Washington. John R. Hawkins is president of the assoclation, which has done much in the past to the spread of Negro culture and_ the stimulation of public interest in Negro history. The local committees |in charge of the convention are headed | by Dr. J. Hayden Johnson, chairman of the general committee; Alfred H. Johnson, chairman of the music com- | mittee; M. Grant Lucas, chairman of publicity, and Dr. B. P. Hurst, chairman of the reception committee. BOMBING 1S LINKED TO MYSTERIOUS FIRE| | Chicago Police Search for Former Companions of $575,000 Stamp Robber. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 28.—A dynamite | bomb which exploded early today in the doorwayof a South Side house mov- | ing concern started police searching for | former companions of Edward Lutowski, who was convicted in 1916 for stealing $575,000 in stamps from the United States Internal Revenue Department in St. Paul. ‘The house moving concern, police said, was owned by Lutowski, known here as Edward Leonard, until his death | on October 3. The bomb was believed to have been a sequel to a mysterious fire which attacked the one-story frame building occupied by Leonard as resi- dence and office on the day Leonard died. The bomb did slight damage. Since Lutowskl's death, the house moving business has been conducted by his nephew, whose name police could not learn. After Lutowsk{ died, Government offi- clals obtained a court order to search | his living quarters and office for about 1$40,000 in revenue stamps still un- recovered from the St. Paul robbery. ‘The search was fruitless. Police asserted that Leonard, under the name Lutowski, had served three | Fears in the Leavenworth, Kans., Federal Penitentiary for the St. Paul robbery, in which he also got $3,000 in cash. In 1898, they said, he served a term in the Marquette, Mich.,, County Jail for robbery, MRS. GOODHUE ~—P. & A. Photo. | average five days & week? Mme. Marie Curie, co-discoverer dedi N. Y., Saturda n this country. Hall after the dedication ceremonies. NOTED WOMAN VISITOR DEDICATES HALL of radium and world-famous scientist, cated the Hepburn Hall of Chemistry at St. Lawrence University, Canton, The renowned scientist’s address was her first public utterance Photo shows Mme. Curie with Owen D. Young leaving Hepburn —Associated Press Photo. BOARD POSTPONES TRIAL OF DOYLE Week’s Delay - Granted to Give Counsel More Time to Map Defense. (Continued From First Page) tion could be vastly improved if th United States attorney’s office weie ! aroused and efficient. “It is & vicious circle of 1ogic and one which harms society when the United States attorney's office blames the de- | lay of justice to court conditions; and tthe courts in turn criticize the evidence presented by the police and throw it out on technicality, and then the Police De- partment feels' the hopelessness of ini- tiative under such conditions.” Refers to Allen and Doyle. “Are Allen and Doyle correct,” he | asked, “in stating that the stockbroker Moffatt had twice been indicted, but never tried, although a year had elapsed since indictment? Could this be so if the United States attorney's office is aroused and efficlent?”” Dr. Plerce then observed, “Failure to enforce the law does more to impair the reputation, the good order, the discipline and morale of the police force than all the Doyles and Allens in America ever could be accused of doing.” He referred to Policeman Allen, whose investigation led to the indictment of Robert A. McPherson, jr., for the mur- der of his wife, and Capt. Doyle of the eighth police precinct, to which Allen was assigned. Both have been suspend- ed and await hearing before a police trial board on charges growing ‘out of the case. Referring to the Rothstein murder case and recalling that the police com- missioner of New York was “compelled to resign” when he failed to find the murderer of the gambler, Dr. Pierce said “how differently we proceed in ‘Washington. “A young woman meets a violent death on Scptember 13,” he continued, referring to the McPherson case. “The heads of our Detective Bureau announce it to be a suicide. Largely upon their testimony, as presented by one of them, and without hearing other witnesses, excepting three doctors, a coroner’s jury of six men, acting in manner which the grand jury pronounced to be “marely a matter of form,” found the death suicidal. Possibly it was. Jury Findings Cited. “But the grand jury was led to inves- tigate the event, and the grand jury pronounced it murder and returned an indictment. The grand jury found that the heads of the Detective Bureau (In- spector William S. Shelby of the De- tective Bureau and Lieut. Edward J. Kelly of the homicide squad) showed ineffectiveness, destroyed evidence, failed to interview important witnesses, | while under oath attempted to mislead the grand jury, told other witnesses what_ they shouid testify and what to forget; and in view of these findings the grand Jury requested the superintendent of police and District Commissioners to suspend these two officers from their duties pending investigation. “The answer of these authorities is to transfer these officers with pay and without trial, but to suspend without pay and with trial Officer Allen and Capt. Doyle. I have never seen Allen or Doyle to my knowledge,” Dr. Plerce said. “I hold no brief for them, though I wish them well.” Two other cases were cited by the pastor. Three colored persons arrested on murder charges before Thanksgiving last year, -he said, were not indicted until January 29 last and were not tried until last week, “nearly a year after the crime.” Why this delay if the United States attorney’s office had been aroused and efficlent?” he asked. Suggests Self-Government. Dr. Plerce addressed himself in pa ticular to court procedure. “Is it true.” he asked, “that courts do not open until 10 ake an hour off for luncheon se at 3 or sometimes 4 o'clock? rue that courts function on an Is it true that judges take a three-month vaca- tion?~ Is it true that courts often ad- journ because judges are indisposed or enjoy poor health?” Suggesting that the Chief Justice of the United States or the Department of Justice has authority to ‘assign judges to_ relieve court congestion, Dr. Plerce asked, “Would not aroused and efficient officials make thit request He asked his congregation to consider whether “this situation” would arise if the citizens of the District elected the Commissioners and were self-governing. “We might be in & worse situation,” he said, “but at least it would be different. Our problems then would be of a self- governing- people.” o Compiling Book of Nobility. ROME (#).—The government s com- piling a new “Golden Book” of Italian ility. In order to make it authentic, ordered each claimant to a title to forward documents attesting his and Is it t | Ex-President and Mrs. Coolidge and Mr. and Mrs. John Coolidge leaving the . claim, with a copy of the family- coat- ards Congregational Church at Northampton, Mass., after funeral services of-arms, to the heral miss Yo Mrs, Lemira Goodhue, mother of Mrs. Coolldge. | B b T the province in' which he PACIFIC PARLEY OPENS IN JAPAN (Full Delegations From Seven Nations, Including U. S., Attend Sessions. By the Associated Press. KIOTO, Japan, October 28—Dele- ates representing the principal coun- ries bordering on or vitally interested im the Pacific Ocean met in the audi- torium of the Hinode Shimbun (“Sun- | rise Newspaper”) here this morning for }the opening session of the third bien- nial conference of the Institute of Pa- cific Relations. A message from Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi welcomed the conference to Japan, “where the two streams of cul- ture, Oriental and Occidental, meet and mingle” for their -12-day session of re- search and debate on outstanding ques- tions of the day in the Pacific area. Messages from .other heads of state were also read. For the Japanese Council of the In~ stitute, hosts of the conference, an | opening address was made by Dr. Inazo | Nitobe, former undersecretary general of the League of Nations, chairman of the Japanes€ group. Gov. Sagami of Kioto prefecture and Mayor Toki of the city of Kioto welcomed the dele- gates from abroad to the ancient capi- tal of Japan. For the visitors a re- sponse was made by Baron Hailsham, lord chaneellor of England in the late Baldwin government and chairman of the British delegation here. Institute’s Work Reported. The session was closed with a report of the work of the institute in the last two years and an outline of the work of the present conference by J. Merle Davis of Honolulu, general secretary. Later meetings of the conference are to be held in the Miyako Hotel, on the outskirts of Kioto, taking the form of round table discussions participated in by delegates and larger open meetings in the evenings. Three days have been allotted to discussion of Manchuria. | China's foreign relations and -the ma- chine age in the Pacific area also will be discussed. The Institute of Pacific Relations is an entirely unofficial organization and none of the delegates- has any present connection with his home government, although several of them have formerly occupied high official positions. It votes no resolutions and makes no direct rep- resentations to governments, but its dis- cussions are believed by the promoters | to have a strong indirect effect on the Pacific policies of more than one chan- cellery. ‘The present conference 1s held in Ki- oto under the auspices of the Japan Council of the Institute, of which Dr. Nitobe is chairman. To finance this meeting the Japan council ‘raised a fund of 100,000 yen (about $50,000) en~ | tirely from’ private, non-governmental sources. Seven natlons, including three British dominions, were represented by full del- | egations at the opening meeting-—Japan, the United States, Great Britain, China, | Canada, Australla and New Zealand. There were subdelegations from Hawaii |and the Fhilippines, while observers were present from France, Mexico, the | League of Nations, the international labor office and Soviet Russia. About | 180 delegates have convened in Kioto | for the conference, the largest groups | being those from Japan (47), the United | States (43) and China (27). ' Including | | members of delegates’ families and sec- | retaries, there are abouf 300 visitors from abroad here for the conference. SAILING MONOTONOUS, SEAFARING MAN RETIRES Points to Order of Tramps in Ar- guing That Sailors Must Create Excitement. NEW YORK (N.ANA.)—A man of the sea, descended from a line of sea- farers, is disembarking for good and all because he say8 that oceanic progress, with all its security and mechanical’ perfection, has made sailing too monoto- nou He points to the late Bert Dunlop, chief electrician on the Berengaria, and the growth of a strange organization that he founded as evidence that the sailor has to resort to fangy for diver- slon and excitement. ‘The Ancient and Honorable Order of Tramps was started Mr. Dunlop. Men on ships were initiated in the presence of an empty tomato can, a stick and a bandana handkerchief, and it cost $10. They joined regardiess, and the idea took so well that the organi- zation was incorporated and nas spread to tg:mr ships. “Promotion good will and good fellowship,” is the slogan, and there are said to be clubhouses in London and Liverpol. 'Mzn‘lberl wear a gold button. HODVER TOBEHOST T0 MADANE CURI [Noted French Scientist Will Be White House Guest " While in Capital. Mme. Curie, noted French scientist, co-discoverer of radium, who, on | Wednesday afternoon at the National | Academy of Science in this city is to be presented with a gram of radium as a gift from American women, will be a house guest at the White House dur- ing her short stay in Washington. Mme. Curie is scheduled to arrive in | Washington late tomorrow afternoon, in company with Mrs. iam Brown Meloney, magazine editor of New York One of the President’s White House as sociates will be at the station and es cort the two visitors to the White House. ‘The dinner at the White House to- morrow night will be a family affair, orly two or three intimate friends of the President and Mrs. Hoover having been invited to join the company. Word has been received at the White House that Mme. Curie has been ill since arriving in -this country about two weeks ago, but it is not thought that her condition will necessitate a posi- ponement of the ceremony to be held in her honor here Wednesday after- rooh. President Hoover will attend the presentation ceremony and will make a brief addres: Dr. William H. Welen ulfd Johns Hopkins University will pro- side. It is understood that Mme. Curie w‘lll_ "retum to New York Wednesday night. ¥ [LANGDON 1S LINKED WITH HAND ESCAPE _IN HEADLEY REPORT (Continued From First Page.) silence ‘to Marinazzi and James, by placing his forefinger to his lips. Hand then passed through the cellroom doors, the report said, walking through the corridor the entire length of the build- ing, passing through the front office, stopping long enough at the door to warn Marinazzi and then passed out of view. In connection with Langdon’s ad- mission that he had discussed Hands prison sentence with him, Inspector Headley reported that Pvt. Truesdell, driver at the fifth precinct, stated that he was in the cellroom at the time of the conversation for the purpose of giving Hand a drink of water, Trues- dell, according to the report, declared he heard Langdon talking with Hand and paid little if any attention, but that he did hear Langdon remark | that Hand would require a space be- tween the bars “so big.” “Truesdell looked toward Langdon,” the report continued, “and saw him indicating with his hands the size of a space on the cell door to permit Hand to get out.” Inspector Headley said he had ?&z yet seen Langdon to ask him about is. Inspector Headley included in his additional report, reports from Capt: Burke, of the first precinct, and Detec- tives Alligood and Connors and Private Mullins, relative to their connection with any business they may have had with the Hand case. “Detective Sergt. Connors,” Headley’s report declared, “appears to have little if anything to do with the Hand case or the ecar. Connors did not converse with Hand nor did he see him. “According to Private Mullins, he t‘:n;: s?;ifl,"fiuflmd car, that it was ormation coming to him from Detective Sergt. Alligood. Mullins called at No. 5 station aboué 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon, October 13, and asked Pvt. C. Stewart, who was acting station clerk, to permit him to see Hand. Detective- Sergt. Cullinane, who was on office duty, had telephoned Pyt. Stewart to permit Mullins to see Hand. “Mullins conferred with Hand and & bargain was made. Mullins left to get some one to finance the sale. He called on Mr. Simmons of the Simmons Motor Co., 1537 Fourteenth street northwest, who agreed to finance the deal. Sims mons accompanied Mullins to No. 5 pre= cinct, the same day, Octcber 13, 1929, when they applied to the station clerk, Stewart, a he refused to allow Mr. Simmons to visit Hand in the cell. “When Mullins telephoned Lieut. Em=. brey for permission to see Hand, Licut. Embrey gave his permission with thé understanding that he would not dis- cuss poiice business. Loses Interest in Auto. “Simmons and Mullins went to Hand’s cell, who decided not to carry out his bargain with Mullins, stating he had made a deal with Alligood and Capt. Burke of No. 1 precinet, and stated that if Mullins could settle the matter with Capt. Burke, he, Hand, would close the deal. Mullins then withdrew and de- cided to lose interest in the automobile. “Inspector Stoll and I visited Mr. Simmons at his business address, when he corroborated Mullins, except that Simmons said that he had bargained to ‘buy the car from Mullins for $800; that Mullins was to make $300 bythis agreement; and the sale of this car was conditioned that Pvt. Mullins was to arrange to take Hand out of the station house for the purpose of per- mitting Hand to telegraph the money obtained for the automobile to a lady in Toledo. Mr. Simmons reiterated this statement and that there was no mistake about this statement. I in- terrogated Mullins on this and he re- plied that Hand did say that he did want to be permitted to leave the sta- tion and go. to the telegraph office to send the money to his relatives. Mul- Hps replied that he would ask this | pefmission, believing at the time this | privitege would not be granted.” 3 . _Visitors Listed. Inspector Hoadley's Teport also con- tained a list of persons, who visited Hand while he was a prisoner at the fifth ‘precinct statiohand pointed out that in each case a polioeman was pres- ent during the conversatiop. He listed these persons as follows: * Attorneys Whelan and O'Connel, Ralph_Stabler, Mr. Simmons of Simmons & Co., John Crouch, a barber, who cut Hand's bair and shaved him, and Lieut. Fisher, a Pennsylvania railroad_policeman, who brought prisoners to the station house. In reference to the interest of Capt. Burke, Detective Alligood and Pvt. Mul- lins in the disposition of Hand tomobile, Inspector Headley said: lieve that the interest displayed on the part of Detective Sergt. Alligood and Private Mullins warrants an investiga- tion by the trial board.” Criticism Feared. It appears from the report of Capt. Burke that he made inquiry about Hand's car having in mind purchasing the car, but there came a time when Capt. Burke came to the conclusion that for him to purchase Hand's auto- mobile ‘would no doubt cause criticism against me and our department,’ and, therefore, withdrew from any further consideration of the matter. “Capt. Burke, exercising further care, as he stated, conferred with one of the corporation counsels as to the official disposition of Hand's car, having in mind that a claim might be filed by the Ohio State authorities.” Inspector Headley announced that he would continue his investigation of Hand’s escape and that the entire mat- ter “is still open.” e Big Cranberry E;p. 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