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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13. 1928. REVIEW IS HEARD [HOOVER SHIP PLAN | . OF NURSE'S DEATH: HELDM[R_A[}TIGAU | 1 ! Impression Has Devclopedi, That President Has Chal- ! lenged League. PUBLCTONECT PREACHER COLLEGE New Building to Be Open After Dedication Ceremo- nies at Mt. St. Alban. -FRANGE RESERVES FOOD SHIPOPINION Feeling That Hoover Proposal Would Work Against League Is Indicated. | 1 § E {Grand Jury Calls Witnesses Whose Stories Led to First Suicide Verdict. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. P Although congressional comment on the Hoover proposal to make food ships immune from attack in war time is universally - favorable, hardly any one | ! The structure on Mount Sain Alban | which will be dedicated tomorrow morn- ing at 11 o'clock for the College of Preachers of the Washington Cathe- dral will be open for public inspection during the afternoon following the ceremony. But after that visitors will be barred, it was announced today. Students of architecture are expected to be particularly interested in this build- BY LELAND STOWE. y Cable to The Star. PARIS, November 13.—At the mo- Iment the French reaction to President ' IHoover's plea for immunity for food ships in. time. of 'War may be described | Zas “deeply interested, but reserved.” The Imorning = newspapers, in accordance ' fwith the Prench habit of expressing feditorial opinions only 24 hours after TR ! | | | x | | | i | Mrs. McPherson apparently displayed | suicidal tendencies. During her resi- | { dence at the High View Mrs. McPher-| son is sald to have contemplated jump- | can be found on Capitol Hill who be- Ing from the roof of the apartment ' jjeves th: idea practical. ! ! bullding’ and on another occasion to Rather has the impression been de- | | have beaten her head against a wall in | veloped that President Hoover has chal- | i & state of hysteria. luvnml the whole structure of the League of Nations, whic! based upon Physician Is Witness. { the ‘sconomic boycott and blockade. Mr. | he event, have as yet made no com- Iment. As to the evening papers, only | $two, Le Journal des Debats and La SLiberte, committed themselves last night i Zon the President’s Armistice day mes- “sage. Nevertheless, from inquiries in official “quarters and from the comments of ‘these two newspapers, it appears: that ‘the French are inclined to regard Mr. Hoover’s proposal to render food ships | as inviolate as hospital ships both im- | practical and opposed to the post-war | treaties, It is indicated that the French feel that such action would nullify the | pover of the League covenant's pledges | institute an economic blockade | against an aggressor state. Clarity Is Praised. Le Journal des Debats says that Mr. Hoover's declaration is “of the first im- | portance” y his clarity in| emphasizsing the re-ejection of sanc- tions against an aggressor as distin- guishing the peace policy of the United States fm:umn of Es‘;:?mi Mr. Hoo- ver, says t| T, pates Europe's 5% seeing América aid Europe in des to prevent war. “Not only does Mr. Hoover maintain the traditional policy of the United States,” it continues, “but egain he de- sires to prevent the other powers from having Tecourse against eventual ag- gressors to the economic sanctions pro- vided in Article 16 of the League cove- nant, s economic sanctions are the most pacific, and mapt likely to compel & nation in bellicose mood to stop and reflect, Mr. Hoover's declaration, how- ever well intentioned, will not discour- | age the proponents of sanctions.” Writer Justifies League. The editorial writer asserts that the League's article 16 is fnll{l Justified, and that the breaking of all commercial, financial and economic _intercourse with an aggressor state is the most ef- fective method of preventing war. ‘“Sending food fo a state which vio- | lates the convenant is quite evidently eontrary to these s. It would enable it to prolong its resistance, it ‘would encou it to precipitate ac- tion to place before the world a fait accompli,” is his view. Debats concludes that since ti sl plan is purely a suggestion, it is difficult to see how the naval confer- ence should consider it. Jacques Bainville, writing in La Liberte, says of Mr. Hoover's idea: “It_is ehllnt‘ it is simple—perhaps too simple. Will there be no distinc- tion between attacked and aggressor? ‘Will the pacific means providedl by the covenant to foree a violator of the pact o his knees be abandoned? And how is to be prevented the fraud of military reprovisioning a food reprovisioning? “Therefore, when one seeks means of ing the old problems which have ations, one evokes the eventualities and re- animates . controversies " ITALY KEEPS ALOOF: Consideration of President Hoover's Plan to Await Request From America. By Csbie to The Star. ROME, November 13.—President Hoo- ver’s s jon in Monday's ?nch that fe ships should not be subjected to interference in war time was viewed in different circles here today with var':d degrees of interest. Official cir- cles were silent, avolding sny pro- nouncement which might be taken to mean approval or disapproval. ‘Any discussion of the question at the present time is considered premature and inadvisable. Only after official re- quest, either directly from America or at the January conference, could the | question be discussed on any formal basis, it was said. Seme Hold Plan Utepian. Prom reliable sources it is learned thet Italy is not opposed to the sug- gestion, but feels that the same agree- ment must be entered into by all the nations of Europe. Some circles con- sider the suggestion Utopian and point out that it was only because food sup- plies were hckm% in Germany and Austria that the World War came to an _end. ‘The only paper which comments upon President Hoover's speech is the Tevere, which considers the suggestion as a re- sult of Mr. Hoover's failure during Prime Minister MacDonald’s visit definitely to settle the question of the freedom of the seas. After a preamble, the Tevere says: « “President Hoover's failure regarding : freedom of the seas has induced him to 1aunch publicly the idea that food ships «should be respected in war time as was “the case with the hospital ships of the < Great War. This idea is contrary to the ! traditions of Great Britain. “Tmperialism” Is Hit. “She (Great Britain) has resisted vic- ! toriously every effort in the last three centuries to prevent a maritime block. which age British interests far more than any proj increase in naval col struction. It will serve best the i terests of the republic of Stars and Stripes, whose imperialism is based on the economics of mercantile freedom. She cannot stand seeing her sea traffic terferred with. The enemy will be} ble to close her poris so that no food eould go out from the greatest market of the world. In reality and at the pres- ént moment, there s a living and formidable antagonism between the two | wers of modern iuperialism, Great ritain and America.” : (Copyright, 192! COURT DENIES MOTION AGAINST C. F. JENKINS *ldin Corporation Loses Suit on Inventor Over Patent Right Contract. : Justice Stafford of the District Su- préme Court today denied motions of fhe Radio Service Corporation of New York for a received and injunction Against Charles Francis Jenkins, in- ‘é‘hwr of television and the Jenkins Laboratories, Ine, to which the in- Yehtor sold his patent rights. * The plaintiff company claimed that it ‘held a contract with Jenkins to buy his invention at the time when he to the Jenkins Laboratories, and asked that an injunction issue Jenkins to! prevent the use of the money and itgck obtained in the sale. : Attorneys Jullan C. Hammack and Adkins & Nnb::. |"hw;"';l‘%n Jlenkm! ile Attorne; . Fleharty ap- e for t{u Jex:mnl l-bon{urm. | | MRS. FRANCOIS BERGER MORAN. —Harris-Ewing Photo. MRS, MORAN DIES OF SHORT LLNESS Social Leader Prominent in Capital Life Succumbs ! in Home Here. Mrs. Francols Berger Moran, proml- | nent for years in the life of the Capital, | died this morning at 9 o'clock in her | residence, 2150 Wyoming avenue. She had been il for several weeks. ~Her daughters, Mrs. Horace Macfarland and Mis. Malcolm Stuart McCenibe, were at_her bedside. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock Friday, at St. John's Episcopal Church. Interment is fo fol- low in Rock Creek Cemetery boside the grave of her husband, Francois Berger | Moran. Mrs, Moran, formerly Jane Blackburn, was the daughter of the late Dr, and Mrs. Richard Scott Blackburn of Clarks 8he was born November at her parents estate in Married in Youth, 8he was married in her early twenties in Berryville, Va., and with her husband and their two daughters came to the Capital at the beginning of the Roose- velt administration. From the first she took an active part in the social life of the city, and their home at 2255 New Hampshire avenue, which they purchased a year after their arrival, :u the scene of many brilliant func- Mrs. Moran also Was an author of note, having more than six books to her Dr. Frank A. Hornaday, who was as- | sociated with Mrs. McPherson on a medical case shortly before her death, was one of the early witnesses today., It was supposad the physician told the grai jury that Mrs. McPherson's | statements in a letter to her parents, to the effect that he 'had treated her for bruises inflicted by her husband, were without foundation in fact. The letter had been regarded as high- | Iy significant when first brought to ,_but Dr. Hornaday's denial that| . McPherson had r come to him | for medical treatment cast another | light on the matter. Deputy Coroner Heard. Another physician examined today | was Dr. Joseph D. Rogers, deputy cor- oner, who presided over the first autopsy performed on the nurse's body. Dr. Rogers was one of three witnesses who testified before the coroner's jury, which declared that Mrs. McPherson ended her own life by drawing a pajama belt tightly around her neck and knotting it on the side. Dr. Rogers reported to the coroner’s jury that the nurse came to her desth from strangulation caused by the pa- jama belt. He found no other evidences of violence. Several weeks later, how- | ever, Mrs. McPherson’s body was ex- humed in China Grove, N. C, to check on a physician’s opinion that Mrs, Mc- Pherson might have suffered a fractured skull. The second autopsy failed to find any such evidences. On_leaving the grand jury chamber, Dr. Rogers said that he merely re-| peated previous testimony he has given | and added that his “ideas” about the case never had changed. The deputy coroner is reported to have held to the belief that Mrs. McPherson was a suicide. Detective Sergt. Dennis Cullinane, who worked on the police investigation of the tragedy under Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, former head of the homicide squad, followed the physicians into the jury room. The Detective Bureau came to the belief that Mrs. McPherson end- ed her own life after many friends and acquaintances of the girl had been questiondd. Allen Back Again. Robert J. Allen, former policeman, and arch advocate of the murder theory, | credit, Among them were “What Man Can Do With a Woman's Life “Twin Souls” and “Miss’ Washington of Virgini®." She wrote a number of children’s stories. 5 She was & member of St. John's Church, and belonged to several patri- otic organizations, including the Daugh- ters of the Americain Revolution and the Colonial Dames, She wds a mem- ber of the Chevy Chase Club, one of the original members of the Arts Club and one of the first.members of the appeared again today at the court- | house in the grease-stained dungarees of his-job as an employe of a flling station. Allen waited fruitlessly to be called “yesterday afternon and spent several hours (his morning continuing Among other witnesses summoned to testify today were Miss Eleanor Shep- pard, last person to talk with Mrs. Mc- Pherson before her death; Miss Martha Berty, another friend of the dead nurse; Mrs. Lillian Conway, telephone operator at the Park Lane, who overheard a Congressional Country Club. Active in ' Campaign. Mrs, Moran teok the last campaign,. giving Massachusetts avenue for the committee hud;‘: rters, . She ad a made speecl] for Gov. Smith and Leaded drives to raise funds to support the Democratic campaign. She was a great lover of music and art and during her life helped mai young musicians. She introduced Mac- farlane Brocett, a young tenor of Glasgow, Scotiand, in the Capital. She scarcely missed any concert or musicale during the Winter seasonm, often ;e-li{ in the receiving line at charity s. Mrs; Moran was active in affairs of the day until a month ago, when she 'was taken Il She was descended from two of Vir- ginia’s and Maryland's oldest families. Her mother was the sister of Gov. Francis Thomas of Maryland and one of her ancestors was Col. Thomas Black- burn of Gen. Washington’s staff. In .addition to her daughters, she is survived by three grandsons, John Mel- ton Hudgins, 2d, son of Mrs. Macfar- land; F. Moran McConihe and Malcolm Stuart McConihe, jr. .- —— {STOCK PRICES WILT IN FRESH SELLING; RALLY SHORT LIVED (Continued Prom Pirst Page.) American Cities Power & Light A, 30, off %; Allied Power & Light, 24%, off 73 American Superpower, 15%, off 215: Blue Ridge, 6Y4, off 33; Blue Ridge preferred, 2314, Off 3, and Central States 4 lectric, ‘16 37%. e ¥, of 1; Earl Radio, o Cities Service, 24 13, of 3g; Electric Bond and Share, , of 4% Electric Shareholdings, of 2; Fourth Natio: Investors, : Goldman_ Sachs, 35, off 1% General Theaters, 27, off 1; Leh. man Corporation, 66, off 4; Middle West Utilties, old, 2127}, off 17%; Mid- dle West Utilities, new, 21, off %: Stendard Oil of Indiana, 48%, off 1%,; Pennroad Corporation, 16%, oft 12; Shenandoah, &, off 1g; Shenan- doah, preferred, 14!, off Tg; Trans-| americw, 36, off 3%; Utilities Power and Light, 14}, off 112; United Light and Power A, 20, off }2; United Gas, 15, off 3. Exchange Probes Selling. The New York Stock Exchange today called upon all its members to file a daily statement of their position, giv- ing a list of stocks borrowed and from whom, list of stocks loaned and to| whom, account of intra-office bor- | rowings and a list of stocks they have falled to deliver. * The stock exchange has not sub- mitted such a general questionnaire to its members since April of 1917. While exchange officials would not comment upon the action, it was understood that it was prompted by a desire to learn how much short selling has been going on during this week’s perplexing decline | and to what extent marginal accounts have been impaired and liquidated, The: questionnaire will give officials of the | exchange a graphic picture of the state of members’ accounts. Seek Source of Selling. Except for a moderate rally last Thursday the stock market has closed lower eyery day for the last two weeks, Wall eet was still seeking vainly to- day for an snswer to two questions which have puzzled traders in the in- terval, namely, “whe is the selling coming from” and “how long will it last. On several occaslons it appeared that the worst was over, but fresh offerings invariably have appeared and prices have plunged into new low gmund. Recent weakness of such high-grade issues as U. S. Steel common, Ameri- can_ Can, yGeneral Electrie, New York Central and Union Pacific has led to & widespread belief that hfavy liquida- red e Radio Corporation was rerrennud Attorney A ert M. MeNell “According to an old Creole supersti- tion parsiey root has miraculous powers. \ tion was taking place of stocks which |M’DERMOTT DEATH ! the second. floor of the Ripley, convi tion between Miss Sheppard and Mrs. McPherson about 8 o'clock on the night of the tragedy: Mrs, Sue Thomp- clerk in the apartment bouse, Bob McPherson broke the his wife's death, and Maj. , one of the last s Mrs. McPherson her ity as nurse. rs. Thompson, on leaving the grand jury room, denfed reports that she| ever had sald McPherson told her he had felt the body of his wife to deter- mine if she were dead. Mrs. Thompson sald she wld the grand jury that to the best of her recollection McPherson made some remark about the body be- lnf cold: but she was sure he not mvaenmnay,m actually touc) the It was the testimony of Mrs. Thomp- son as to what McPherson sald an- nouncing discovery of the tragedy that originally gave rise .to reports that the husband had been inside the room" prior to notifying the apartment management of the gruesome find. 1 Wilmer C. /Ruff, manager of the apartment house, gained the impression from McPherson that he had been in- side the bedroom and therefore was quite surprised to find he had to shove the door of the bedroom open in order to peer inside. He found the bolly was lying against the door in such a posi- tion that he doubted that any one coulld have been inside the room previ- ously. caj Incoherent and Sobbing. Miss Sheppard called Mrs. McPherson on the telephone on the fatal night and was greeted with hysterical sobs,and an incoherent explanation from Mys. Mc- Pherson that she could not talk:at that time and would have to hang up at once. Mrs. Conway, deeply aroused by what she heard, rang the McPherson apart- ment back several times, but got no response. She said her curlosity was so aroused that she secured a pass key and went to the apartment, Receiving no acknowledgement of her knock, she entered the apartment, turn- ed on the living room light and saw a black evening dress in the middle of the floor. No =igns of life were visible or audible, so, thinking Mrs. McPherson had retired or gone out, she left the apartment. Miss Berry was one of Mrs. McPher- son’s closest friends. Miss Berry is said to have received from Mrs. McPherson a detalled account of her estrangement from McPherson. Mabel Chenareet, an- other telephone operator at the Park Lane, also was called this afternoon. IS HELD SUICIDE Poison Is Revealed in Autopsy by Dr. Rogers, Dr. Nevitt Reports. A certificate of ‘suicide was signed by Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt today in the death of Miss Marie McDermott, 41-year-old Government clerk, who was found dead in her apartment, on ac| 1424 R street, yesterday. In the certificate Dr. Nevitt stated | that death was caused by an “irritanc poison,” & fact revealed by an autopsy performed at the District Morgue last night by Dr. Joseph Rogers. Miss McDermott, an employe in the mineral division of the Interior De- rtment, left & note indicating that love affair was the cause of her act. Police located the man presumably referred to. but he denied he had been the girl's flance. He sald she had re- fused to marry him, Francis McDermott, a brother of the deceased, arrived here from Brooklyn, N. Y, today and conferred with mem- bers of the homicide squad. Search of | Miss McDermott's trunk disclosed two wills and pumerous papers. It appenrs the rs that she had several mnd &En in bank- institutions Jast month. They also had been used as collateral for bank loans, and that insurance companies, investment ts and other large finan- cial institutions were lightening up on their holdings of junior securities, :nh’i'ltd she owned numerous shares of stock In & number of concerns, |and tha | challenge of the League of Nations. Hoover takes the view that the Geneva ague travels the road of physical force | the United States will exert | ‘The clash comes because of the certainty that if the American Government endeavored to l)rokc! commsrce in food to the belligerent countries it would require physical force to deliver the food through the blockade of an opposing Navy. Mr. Hoover, of assuming that an interna- eement can be reached per- mitting food supplies to go to the non- combatants in & country at war. Already the discussion turns not so much on what would hnpgen in a future war, but what might have hap- pened in the World War if Mr. Hoover's proposal had been in effect. If Ger- many could have been assured of & food supply she might not nave en- gaged in submarine warfare against American vessels carrying food to Great Britain prior to the entry of the United States into the war. Anoiher hypo- thesis is that if Germany could have received food for her civillan population her army would have been well sustain- ed at the front and the war might have been prolonged beyond 1918. Plan Has Difficulties. Just how food that is intended for civilians would be kept from reaching an army is difficult to conjecture. The general bellef here is that very little will come of the proposal except to| strengthen the British view of the need of a navy to [)rolect a food supply in the absence of an international agree- ment. It is significant, however, that the President’s effort to introduce an hu- manitarian note in the rules of war re- celved widespread approval from both Democrats and Republicans in Con- gress who were quoted on the subject. Nevertheless, many of them foresaw a real diplomatic conflict in Mr. Hooverl': was the threat of an economic boycott which helped to solve & recent outbreak in Latin America. It is the implied threat contained in the League of Na- tions covenant which is keeping many of the smaller European nations from avenging alleged injustices by going to war. The famous debate on article 10 has never ended. While each nation is the judge of whether it will join in punishing & nation that violates the covenant of the League or the Kellogg- Briand treaties, there is no doubt that physical force is the fundamental method by which the League of Nations has hope to enforce peace. Mr, Hoover has opened up only & part of the whole subject. To be con- sistent now the Unifed States in its efforts to localize war or at least to re- duce its awfulness, will not only be re- quired to open its food graneries to civilian populations of belligerent coun- tries, but will find it difficult to permit . the export of arms and ammuniiton or money to belligerent governments. All efforts to get the United States to agree on treaties that would prohibit the ex- sort of arms and ammunition have hithe erto fafled: the American Government till reserves the right to furnish the sinews of war to belligerents. League Advocates No Ald. All such questions as what food shall be exported and whether munitions shall be provided belligerent countries really turn upon the question of whether a nation that violates its treaties or obli- moral force. y the knowledge of possible discomfort to civilian population has been the most powerful influence in restraining gov- ernments from going to war. All these questions are bound to be pursued as a sequel to the London naval conference with the possible re- sult that out of the whole discussion may come a compromise between the views of the Geneva League and those of President I;lo':ver. If out of it all comes any International agreement which can be universally adopted it will mean real progress toward international co-operation. ~ But the biggest hurdle to surmount is whether the world is to rely on moral force or is to apply p)l{llcnl force to prevent conflict as well as to punish those nations who g0 to war in violation of their obliga- tions under the Kellogg-Briand treaties. (Copyright, 1929.) CAR FARE BOOST DENIED CARRIERS BY UTILITIES BODY (Continued From First Page.) to it the net cost of additions and betterments to date. (The St. Louls and O'Fallon railway case, Tecently de- cided by the Supreme Court of the United States, was quoted as authority for this doctrine), The figure thus de- termined may be either too high or too low and does not afford a proper basis for rate making, nor enable the com- mission to have before it those ele- ments of value which the courts have repeatedly held must be taken into con- sideration. “‘As hereinbefore set forth, the fair value claimed by each street railway company was determined in just this manner, without current inventory or | showing of the physical condition of the properties, by adding the net cost of ad- ditions and betterments to a fair value. in one case nearly four years, in the other 10 years old.” After speaking on the errors in ac- counting and the wide differences in ac- counting methods employed by the two companies, the opinion held that no re- vamping of the accounts of the com- panles would make possibie the ascer- tainment of their true fair value today, and that there are not enough facts in | the record to make possible such a re- statement of investment. The record shows, the commission held, that if the companies would unite in a corporate merger there would ve economies amounting to as much as $1,000,000 per year. On the other hand, the combined net increase in revenues estimated by the companies amounts to $900,000 & year. Therefore, by the com- panies’ own showing it would probably pay them better to merge than to in- crease fares. Dealing with this point further, the opipion said: “The companies’ estimate ofi the net results of the increased charge upon the sticet car riders is based upop the assumption that this higher fare would result in no diminu- tion in the number of riders, or at least if such a decrease in patronage does show itself, that it will be temporary. It is pot to be denied, however, that increased charg for service are not always followed by increases in revenue. The companies may well be mistaken in their proguostications, as the record is studied, It becomes more and more ap- parent that much of the evidence deals with conjectures, estimates and pre- dictions as to what will happen in the future .{f certain.things are done.” A bid for tourist trade is made by Cuba in the 700-mile highway which! Her effects are in police b to court ordes, will traverse almost the entire len| of the picturesque island, e {ing for the lobby investigation by a | Senate, with a biting wit which fre- Scene at the eleventh precinct yesterday whe: n officials were making their ann: ual nds. Maj. Henry G. Pratt, Capt. Charles T. Peck, Inspector William H. Harrison and Inspector Louis J. Stoll. Inspector Thaddeus Bean, Maj. Donald A. Davison and Inspector E. W. Brown. —8Star Staff Photo. LOBBY, CARANAYS FORUM SUBIET Chairman of Senate Com-i mittee Will Discuss Probe Tomorrow Night. Lobbying in Washington will be the subject of an address which Senator T. H. Caraway 8f Arkansas, chairman of the Senate lobby investigating commit- tee, will deliver in the National Radio Forum, arranged by The Star and sponsored by the Columbia Broadcast- ing System, at 10:30 pm. tomorrow. ‘The Senate lobby investigation has recently held the spotlight in Washing- ton and throughout the country. Sen- ator Caraway was the author of the resolution adopted by the Senate call- subcommittee of the Senate judiciary committee. He was appointed chi | man of the investigating committee and has been the leader in the probe. Already the lobby investigating com- mittee has submitted, through Senator Caraway, two reports to the Senate, one of them dealing with the employment by Senator Bingham of Connecticut of Charles L. Eyanson, assistant to the president of the Connecticut Manufa turers' Association, to aid him in work on the tariff bill, and the other criti- cizing the activities of Willlam Burgess, former United States Tariff Commis- sioner, employed by American pottery interests. Senator Caraway is a Democrat. He was born in Missouri, attended school and college in Tennessee and began the practice of law in Arkansas soon after- wards. From 1908 to 1912 he served as prosecuting attorney for the second fudicial circuit of Arkansas and in 1912 he was elected to the House of Repre- sentatives. He served four terms in the House, from March 4, 1913, to March 3, 1921, In the Fall of 1920 he was elected to the Senate, and entered that body immediately after his term in the House expired. He was re-elected in 1926. Senator Caraway is regarded as one of the most vigorous debaters in the quently causes bursts of laughter in the Senate chamber. MOSES RETURNS O WASHINGTON Knows Nothing of Rumors He Is to Be Deposed as Sen- ate Campaign Leader. By the Assoclated Press. ‘The author of the now famous ex- pression, “Sons of Wild Jackasses,” Senator George Moses of New Hamp- shire, returned to the Capital today from a trip to Chicago and said he knew nothing of rumors that he was to be deposed as chairman of the Repub- lican senatorial campaign committee or as President pro tem of the Senate. The rumors to this effect started while Moses was en route to the Mid- western metropolls, after causing & stir in the ranks of the Republican inde- pendent group by his appelation. Recalling that he been chairman of the senatorial campaign committee in 1924, when the same group of Sena- tors now up for re-election were elected, Moses expressed surprise that his leadership tactics should now be ques- tioned. “Of course, I didn't go to Chicago in connection with the senatorial cam- paign,” he sald. “The Senators know that it is not the policy of this commit« tee to mix in the primary campaigns, 1 do nc intend to mix fn the primaries. We arc out to elect the Republicen senatori: 1 candidates.” CHARLES W. KING, JR., SUED FOR $250,000 Herman M. Bierley Accuses Him of | Alienating the Affections of His Wife. Charles W. King, jr., 1500 block of | Monroe street, was sued yesterday in | the District Supreme Court for $250,000 | damages by Herman M. Blerley, 1200 block of M street, for alleged alienation of the affections of Virdie A. Bierley, wife of the plaintiff. As the result of the alleged actions of King, the court | is told, Bierley's wife left him and took their children with her. Bierley tells the court that he was married in June, 1910, and lived hap- plly with his wife until October last when, he charges, King began to dis- | g:rn e him, complain against him and little him before his wife, so that | she was induced to leave him and to| accompany King, a married man, on | trips outside the District. King show- | ered gifts on Mrs. Bierley, it is stated. ‘The plaintiff, through Attorney Les- ter Wood, declares that, in addition to| the loss of his wife and children, he has been humiliated among his ac- quaintances and has suffered anguish of mind. | CHOATE’S WIDOW DIES. NEW YORK, November 13 (#).—Mrs. Caroline Sterling Choate, 82 years old, widow of Joseph HyChoate, former Am- bassador to England and noted lawyer, died of heart disease yesterday at her residence here, Mrs. Choate had been in poor health | ll!n(:'e last Spring. Mr. Choate died in 91 llirvlvln. are two sons, Joseph H. Choate of New York, and George Choate of Wellesley, Mass, and a daughter, | |S. D. Matthews and Edward F. {Dorothy Dix Tells Forum Speaker ENA' CARAWAY. ALLEN'S LAWYERS CONTINUE BATILE | Attorneys Prepare for New Fight to Get Him Rein- stated. fight to have the Police Trial Board dismissal of Robert J. Allen, suspended policeman, set aside, Allen’s attorneys today prepared to make another effort to have their client reinstated. Daniel E. Garges, secretary of .the Board of Comnrissioners, = yesterday wrote H. Ralph Burton and Tench T. Murfe, Allen’s lawyers, informing them they have 10 days from November 9 to submit any written statement desired in cemnection with their appeal of the ‘“Trial Board verdict. The Garges communication made no reference to & request from Burton and Marye that Allen be restored to duty because the trial board 'found Capt. Robert E. Doyle, who had supported the policeman, not guilty of insubordina- tion, and while Garges made no direet reference to this phase of the situation, it_was evident the Commissioners by their silence refused the request: m'nu request of Burton and Marye d: *It is impossible for Allen to be guilty ard Doyle innocent of the same charge oased upon the same letter. The slight- est consideration for public opinion, falrness or justice would reguire you, upen your own motion, to correct, so far as possible, a patent travesty. This en- tire proceeding with reference to Allen and yle has become little more than & sham, which you have the power to ‘end, if you have the disposition, and we venture to see that unless you do, this lepisode will remain a stain upon your ‘administration and the police annals.” Mayre announced that the next move by the attorneys for Allen probably would be the filing of a brief with the fommisioners, which would set forth his claims for reinstatement. ACQUITTAL OF DOYLE LAUDED BY CITIZENS Bloomingdale Association Approves | Action of Trial Board in Case of Police Captain. Indorsing the action of the Police Trial Board in acquitting Capt. Rob- ert E. Doyle of charges of insubordi- nation growing out of tne Allen case, the Bloomingdale Civic Association ap- plauded the return of the veteran eighth precinct commander to duty at its meeting in the Tabor Presbyterian Church Jast night. Mrs. n A. Cuney was elected president of the association for the new term, with E. T. Hawkins, first vice president; J. G. Logan, second vice president; S. D. Matthews, third vice president; Mrs. E. Matthews, recording secretary; Edward F. Harris, | corresponding secretary; E. W. Crump, {reasurer; Rev. F. A. Fairley, chaplain, and N. T. Waddington, sergeant-at- arms. E. T. Hawkins, Mrs. E. M. Matthews, Harris were named delegates to the Federation of Civic Associations. | Steel Fabricators She Has Problems! By (he Associated Press. | EDGEWATER PARK, Miss., Novem- | ber 13.—Mrs. E. M. Giimer, known to newspaper readers as “Dorothy Dix," | adviser on domestic tangles and affairs | of the heart, told the opening session of the convention of Steel Fabricators here that she had her problems just ke the steel men. She declared she was regarded by some as a “trouble manufacturer” by being the me of contention at family breakfast les by her conclusions on family affairs and that one “reader with buttons on his pockets” had threatened to get out an injunction to stop her writings if she ever again advocated giving wives allowances. At the conclusion of her address, the toastmaster said their guest would answer any question from the audience. A man in the rear arose and asked: “Why don’t more men bring their wives to these conventions “Don’'t you remember the storv ef the man who was asked why he didn't take his wife to Paris?” replied Dorothy Dix. “His answer was, ‘Would you ‘l.lll.ll Mabel CI of New York. Bur- will be at St bridge, Mass. 1 ld bring & ham sandwich to a banquet?’ " Having lost another round in_their | | announced today. CHURCH LEADERS STUDY PROBLEMS | Catholic, Jew and Protestant to Discuss Intolerance. By the Associated Pres: CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 13.— Catholic, Jew and Protestant sat down together at Harvard yesterday to dis- cuss the causes and effects of religious intolerance in the first seminar of its kind ever held in New England and one of the first in America. bbis, priests and Protestant clergymen, educational and business leaders were among the 490 persons who took part. | _The seminar was conducted by the Calvert Round Table of Boston, an or- ganization including equal representa- tion of the three religious groups, re- | cruited from business and professional |leaders. A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard, opened the session. fie traced briefly the history of religious enmities, and said: Urges Fervor Without Rancor. “Is mankind doomed forever to have its love linked with its hatred, its best with its worst propensities? * * * Our problem for the future is to arouse religious fervor without religious rancor. An attempt to prepare the way for a better state of that kind is the mark set by the Round Table and there can be none greater.” The seminar divided into three round tables—one, on vocational adjustment, presided over by George W. Coleman, esident of Babson Institute of Welles- ley; a second, on misrepresentation of religious practices and beliefs, con- ducted by Prof. Harrison 8. Elliott of Union Theological Seminary, New York, and the third, on community conflict nd co-operation, led by Prof. John J. Mahoney of Boston University. To promote absolutely free discussion the Press was not permitted to quote any of the speakers at the round tables directly, but among thbse who took part in an uu::mn&mln the table on misrepresen Teligious tices and beliefs were Rabbi Landman of New York, editor of the American Hebrew: Mgr. Michael J. Splaine of Boston, Father Ahern, Ralph Adams Cram, Boston architect, and several ministers, professors and busi- ness men. Each Presents Grievances. Each group presented its grievances. A El’lul complained of school text s which misrepresented Catholic history and dogma. A Protestant de- clared that Catholic doctrines which were objectionable to him were forced on his son in school. A kabbl said a Protestant minister had taught chil- dren in his church that the whole Jewish race was, and is, responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Conclusions reached yesterday were that the sources of difficulty were to be found ?anlpllly in inherited misrep- resentations transmitted by text books, in whispering campaigns, in the use of misrepresentations for political ends, and actual differences of opinion which aggravated misunderstandings. FORMULATE PLAN IN MISSION WORK Washington Province to Eliminate All Deficiencies in Ap- portionments. ey Plans to eliminate, all deficiencies in apportionments for ions, formulated at a meeting of & 1 committee of the province of of the Protestant Episcopal ®Church here, were ‘The committee decided to recommend “that while we as members of the synod of the province of Washington pledge ourselves to do our best toward meeting the :Fponlcnmenu of the national councll in our respective diocesss, and trust that the quota will be fully' met, yet we respectfully request that if there be a deficiency in any year that the necessary reductions be made in other departments than the department of missions, so that as far as possible the budget for the depart- ment of mis as adopted by the general convention be maintained.” ‘The province of Washington is com- prised of the dioceses of Bethlehem, Delaware, Easton, = Erie, Harrisburg, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Scuthern Virginia, Southwestern Vir- ginia, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia, Appointed at a recent convention in Harrisburg, Pa, the special committee is composed of Bishop G. W. Daven- port of the Easton diocese, Bishop Co- adjutor A. C. Thompson of the South- ern Virginia diocese, Bishop Gravett of the West Virginia diocese, Rev. Lewel- lyn N. Caley, Rev. Martin Aigner, Rev. Robert Bell, R. H. M. Wharton, H. W. Kingsbury, Hugh T. Nelson, Mrs. cellin C. Adams, Miss Louisa I. Da and Mrs. Harold N. Arrowsmith, BUSINESS MEN ELECT | IN COLUMBIA HEIGHTS B. A Leviton Named President. Legislation on Insurance Is Proposed. B. A. Levitan, 2010 Klingle road, was re-elected president of the Columbia Helghts Business Men's Association last night at 1419 Park road. Other officers elected are: Pirst vice president, Willlam P. Dismer; second vice president, Ralph Wallace; third vice president. Lillias Cropper; secre- Sit Together at Seminar | ing. The gift of the late Alexander Smith Cochran of Yonkers, N. Y.. the struc- ture will be devoted exclusively to the activities of the College of Preachers. It was designed by Frohman, Robb & Little of Boston and Washington and built by the George A. Fuller Co. Program Opens at 8 A.M. The day’s program tomorrow will be- gin at 8 o'clock in the morning with the first celebration of the holy com- munion in the chapel of St. Augustine, the College of Preachers’ chapel. The congregation will consist of members of the House of Bishops, relatives of Mr. Cochran, clergymen who have attended College of Preachers’ conferences and members of the staff of the cathedral ‘The most colorful phase of the serve ice will take place at 11 o'clock in the morning. Two processions, one con- sisting of bishops from the dioceses throughout the land in their robes of office, and the other of the Bishop and Dean ot Washington, the warden of the Coliege of Preachers, the Lord Bishop of Winchester, England; clerical members of the cathedral chapter and other clergymen in vestments, will march down the cathedral hillside to the main entrance of the College of Preaches, facing Woodley road. Bishop Will Officiate. R The dedication will begin there, fole lowing which the procession will eon+ tinue through the building, words of consecration being said in every ime portant unit. Bishop James E. Freeman will con- duct the entire service and will deliver the dedicatory address. There will also be addresses by the Right Rev. Philip M. Rhinelander, warden of the College of Preachers, and Bishop Frank Theo= dore Woods of Winchester, who will ex« :eng greetings from the Church of Eng+ and. EPISCOPAL EiSHOPS VOTE ON SUCCESSOR TO JOHN G. MURRAY (Continued Prom Pirst Page) - to be elected democratically to the office and automatically fills the post of president of the National Council, the executive and administrative head of the church. Nominaitons for the office of presiding bishop were made from the floor. After the failure of the first ballot, the slips of paper upon which the bishops wrote the names of their choice were de< stroyed. Rivaling the candidacy of Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop L whose suport is said and the country, was of a half dozen prominent leaders whose election was conceded as likely, Among these was Right Rev. Ermest M. Stires, Bishop 6f Long Island, By reason. of the proximity of his diocese to the national office of the church in New York. his supporters were drawn largely from those who lean to a bishop of a small diocese within easy access to the New York headquarters. He for- merly was rector of St. Thomas Church in New York and it was said his election would be the means of bringing con=~ :lde{nble financial support to misison work, o lon Others Believed in Race. Others prominently in the lead were said to be Right Rev. Hugh L. Burleson, Missionary Bishop of South Dakota; Right Rev. Thomas O. Darst, Bishop of East Carolina; Right Rev. Thomas F., Gailor, Bishop of Tennessee, and Right Rev. Phillip Cook, Bishop of Delaware. William T. Manning of New York, although a leader among Epis- copal clergymen in this country, has not. been seriously considered, it is said, due to the need of his direction in the construction of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, with which he is at present engaged. The candidacy of Bishop Preeman, who was one of the leaders in the last election. is sald to be strengthened by the feeling within the church that its national headquarters should be moved | from New York to Washington, where the church's head could be in closer touch with various national agencies connected with missionary work. This :Ang:ncy to mn.wv! to Washington is sald o RTOw Kmon), iscopalians of the West and South, b Bishop Preeman, besides being the builder of the Cathedral in Washington, has many other qualifications. He is noted as one of the foremost Episco- palian preachers and a leader in the evangelistic movement. He has been Bishop of Washington for six years, during which national attention has been focused on his work here. The office of preslding bishop carries with it a salary of $18,000 a year and traveling expenses. ‘The successor to the late Bishp Mur- ray will be eligible for re-election at lh; next triannual general convention. etween 80 and 100 bishops from all sections of the country gathered at the cathedral at 9:30 o'clock for to day’s proceedings. This was the first time that a ses- sion of the House of Bishops has ever been held in Washington Cathedral. The dignified, serene setting of Bethle- hem Chapel, behind whose altar lies the body of the late Henry Yates Sat- terlee, first Bishop of Washington and projector of the cathedral, was in ef- fective keeping with the solemnity of the occasion. Holy Communion Service. ‘The election was preceded by a service of holy communion, at which the cele- brant was Right Rev. Charles Palmer« ston Anderson, Bishop of Chicago, as- sisted by Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, and Right Rev, Hugh Latimer Burleson, missionary bishop of South Dakota, 'Bishop Bure leson was assistant to Bishop Murray and served in the same capacity to Bishop William Leonard of Ohio, senior bishop of the council, who called the conference. No ceremony was attached to this brief and simple service. Only the bishops before the altar were e{othtl in_their vestments. Immediately after the service the election was held with all the solemnity befitting the occasion. Grouped Before Altar. ‘The 90 or more bishops participating were grouped in oaken arm chairs be- fore the altar in Bethlehem 3 that stands on the spot where Roosevelt, 23 years ago, laid the cor- ner stone of the Cathedral. The election was simple to the ex- treme. With the doors of the chapel closed and only the participating bishops present, nominations were made for the office of presiding bishop from the floor, following which slips of tary, H. C. Phillips; treasurer, Eugene L. Hord. ). ‘The assoclation ted a resolution introduced by Mr. Dismer 'ng legislation for establishment of resident insurance agents, so that no one but registered resident agents could write ‘That ended the questioning. insurance heye. \ papers were distributed Which Bishops thdicated thelr cholce. After each indecisive ballot, the votes were to be destroyed and the balloting continued until the bishop placed in nomination ived the necessar, cons stitutional majority of 68 votes,