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WEATHER. (U, 8. Weather Bureau Forscast.) dy tonight and tomorrow followed tomorrow; colder ‘Highest, 43, Clou by rain Temperatures—I today; lowest, 36,'at Full Teport on page 9. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 Entered post office, No. 31,286. Wa secor tomorrow. , at noon 10 p.m. a3 nd shingtos ¢h 9 WASHINGTO! WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. as fast “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes the papers are printed. e ———— ——1. Yesterday’s Circulation, 109,572 y D20, FRIDAY; DECEMBI?}% 27, 1929—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. () Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. NELLOGE PACTHT BYFRENCH ONEVE - OF NAVAL PARLEY Peace Move “Insufficient” to Guarantee Security, Says Foreign Office. MEETING’S WORK SUBJECT TO MANDATES OF LEAGUE Designation of Strength by Mathe- Resignation Accepted CHIVA WILLSSUE | BAN ON FOREIGN | COURTS JANUARY Emergency Meeting Decides to Promulgate Official Mandate. matical Ratios Struck Stinging Blow. By the Assoclated Press. PARIS, December 27.—A foreign of- fice memorandum published today sets forth the French position relative to the forthcoming London Naval Conference. Certain tenets which have character- ized the American attitude toward the conference are discarded by the Quai D'Orsay, which advancesgeertain other propositions as the basis for proceeding toward the projected five-power agree- ment. Principal among the points advanced are: 1—That the work of the London con- ference is to be within and subservient DR. JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN. AMBASSADOR QUITS POST IN GERMANY State Department Notifies Dr. Schurman Resignation Has Been Accepted. to that of the League of Nations. 2—That France regards the Kellogg pact as insufficient guarantee of national security to form a basis for a disarma- ment agreement. Such an agreement, however, could be based on the covenant of the League of Nations. National Needs Main Factor. 3—That the principle of designation of naval strength by means of mathe- matical ratios such as were evolved at the Washington Naval Conference is unsatisfactory. Instead national needs must dictate naval strengths; the memorandum mentions considerable needs of the French “Empire.” 4—Unavoidable co-relation of land and sea strength, and the necessity of considering the former in any projected reduction of the latter. 5—Desirability of a Mediterranean act of non-aggression participated in Ey natiors not invited to the London conference, such as Spain. . French official quarters attached con- Siderable importance to the memoran- dum. The text was issued in both French and exact English translation. Hold Kellogg Pact Insufficient. Points which are considered here to be in opposition to the American and, is merely preliminary to a Nations agreement, that the pact is insufficient national guaran as a basis for an agreement and: that the principles of naval ratios cénnot govern. ‘The memorandum says that the Kel- logg-Briand anti-war pact relies on the force of public opinion and this is not it guarantee of public national security. In the Chamber of Deputies Aristide Briand and Premier Tardieu were voted confidence yesterday on their “peace” policies by a poll of 303 to 266, the specific question being whether they were to be authorized to continue the Teparations settlement work at the sec- ond Hague conference, meeting Janu- ary 3. r‘}:ll is easier to whip ‘nations into fighting frenzy by heroic battle cries and the trumpets of turmoil than to ‘make them listen to the words of peace,” M. Briand cried fervently. “The policy of peace is drab and un- emotional. But in spite of all bitter at- tacks and the weight of ridicule, I will remain at my post to preach this policy. If need be, I will go through my coun- try like 2 pilgrim telling my people that peace is the best policy, and I hope that my feeble means may find con- vincing arguments to end wars forever.’ ‘TOKIO, December 27 (#).—The cabi- net today decided to name Matsuzo Naggai, Japanese Ambassador to Bel- gium, as the fourth delegate to the Lon- don naval conference. A fifth delegate may be named from among the Ambas- sadors to European capitals later. It was definitely decided that Ambassa- cor Debuchi, at Washington, will not be sent to London. STIMSON AWAITS TEXT. ‘Withholds Official Comment on French Attitude Toward Kellogg Pact. Ambassador Claudel of France in- formed Secretary Stimson today that he would communicate to the Anerican Government as soon as it arrived from Paris the Prench memorandum on the attitude of that government toward the . forthcoming Naval Conference. Only two brief summaries of the French memorandum, one sent by the American_embassy in London and the other by the American embasey in Paris, have been received at the State ment, and Secretary Stimson declin 10 comment on reports of the attitude of the Paris government pending the arrival in Washington of the complete text through the French embassy. The attitude of the French as al- ready reported was not received with any surprise by American officials. The attitude which the memorandum said the French would maintain at the con- ference with regard to the linking of that parley’s work with the League of Nations was cited as the policy which the French government has long held. The expression, however, regarding the Kellogg pact was received with some surprise in view of the fact that Foreign Minister Briand of France col- laborated with Frank B. Kellogg, for- mer Secretary of State, in shaping the treaty. It has been known for some time that President Hoover and Secretary Stim- scn look upon the treaty as a vital con- sideration to come before the confer- ence when the reduction of armaments is gone over, since all of the powers parties to the parley were original sig- natories of the y. rt- 60 COMMUNISTS HELD. | NEW YORK, December 27 (#).—Sixty Communists, 28 of them women, were arrested today when, as part of a group of 150 radicals, they gathered in front of a loft building in West Twenty- resignation of Jacob Gould n of Ithaca, N. Y., had been Ambassador t By the Associated Press. BERLIN, December 27.—Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, American Ambassa- dor to Germany, has received word from the State Department that his resignation as Ambassador has been ac- cepted. Ambassador Schurman told the Asso- ciated Press that he had been expecting his resignation to go through for some time and in anticipation his family had left Berlin in September and resumed their residence in New York. ‘The Ambassador felt it to be his duty, however, to remain at his post until he was relieved. He will leave Berlin as soon as he can get ready, arriving in New York the end of January. “I cannot T-k too highly of the cordiality of the German government and people, who have facjlitated my work here in every manner possible,” he said. *“T shall always look back upon service in Germany with the great- satisfaction.” e RESIGNATION NO SURPRISE. Official Circles Understood Schurman ‘Would Be Allowed to Quit. ent in Berlin that the Schurman accepted as 0 Germany was not re- it the virtual conclusion of the American-German negotiations for an direct pay- n of costs for the *ACTION NOT UNEXPECTED; I SOME OPPOSITION SEEN Indications Are U. S. Would Not Look Unkindly Upon Modi- fication of Treaties. By the Associated Press. NANKING, China, December 27.— ‘The Central Political Council in emer- gency meeting today decided to issue an official mandate January 1 declar- ing abolition of extraterritorfality in China. The mandate will be divided into two parts. The first will declare that for- eigners living in China shall in the future be subject to the laws of the Central government and local author- ities. The second will declare immediate promulgation of a code governing law suits and involving Chinese and for- eigners. Extraterritoriality is the term ap- plied to the privilege enjoyed by per- sons and properties of many foreigners in China to be tried in courts of their own nationality. Status of Several Changed. There have in all been 21 countries enjoying extraterritoriality in China under treaties, although the status of several of these countries has been changed by developments of the past two years. Germany, Bolivia, Persia and Chile, and more recently Soviet Russia and Mexico, have renounced their privileges of consular jurisdiction. Great Britain renounced the privileges in one district of China, and there have been indica- tions the United States would look not unkindly upon Chinese efforts to modify the existing treaties granting extr: - ritoriality. i . i Treaties to Be Abrogated. During 1928 the Nationalist govern- ment announced that treaties which had lapsed or were about to lapse would be abrogated and new treaties nego- tiated on a basis of “equality.” Today’s action had been expected. There have been indications some of the nations concerned ma; qu_gu arrangement, treaty rights were in most cases geined during the period of foreign Ppenetration in China from 1850 to 1900, although many are of more recent date, AMERICAN POLICY FIRM. Readiness to Enter Negotiations on Ex- territoriality Stands. ‘The American Government will stand on its previously announced policy re- ment to We maintenance of American Army of Occupation on the Rhine and claims of American citizens growing out of the Wotld War. The Ambassador had (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) oot BOY AND MOTHER GO TO JAIL TOGETHER Arrested on Different Charges Aft- er Father Had Been Given Term in Penitentiary. By the Associated Press. OKMULGEE, Okla., December 27.— An entire family of three, including a 12-year-old boy, was in jall today, each member on a different charge. ‘The boy, Orville Eyler, was arrested for shooting Ester Cole, 9, after he had quarreled with the little girl. The shot was from an air rifle and the resultant wound was not dangerous. : Deputy sheriffs who went to his home were denied admittance by his mother. The deputies said they peeked in & win- dow and saw Mrs. Eyler breaking bot- tles. They forced an entrance and, they said, confiscated two bottles of whisky. So they took mother and son to jail Lee Henry, husband of the woman, was sentenced recently to two years in the penitentiary for stealing chickens. He was an attorney, and the conviction led to his disbarment. No formal charges have been filed against the boy or Mrs. Eyler. Lindberghs Take Holiday. VALLEY STREAM, N. Y., December 27 () —Col. and Mrs. Charies A. Lind- bergh took off from the Curtiss-Wright Field at 11:15 a.m. today for Columbus, Oh;o, where they will spend the week end. garding _extraterritoriality rights in China, which expressed its readiness to enter into negotiations to devise a meth- od of gradual relinquishment of these privileges. Secretary’ Stimson’s attention was called today to dispatches from Nan- king saying the Central Political Coun- cil had decided to abolish the extra- territorial rights in China on January 1. Under these rights foreigners are permitted to have trials in that country under the jurisdiction of their own na- tionals. A note to China on August 10 ex- pressed the readiness of the American Government to participate in tions to find a method for gradual re- unguhhmem of extraterritorial rights. expression, however, was stated to provide that the relinquishment should | p proceed at the same time as steps were taken by the Chinese in the enactment and effective enforcement of laws i on modern concepts of juris- prudence.” . - The conversations which went on be- tween Minister Wu of China and offi< clals of. the State Department on the subject were emphasized by officials rot to have taken the form of negotiations. Unofficial indications have reached Washington from China that steps to- ward abolition of the privileges would be taken by the Chinese January 1, but (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) CARDINAL GASPARRI, 77, EXPECTED TO QUIT SOON Pope Indicates Acceptance of Res- ignation as Secretary at Early Date. By the Assoclated Pr ROME, December 27.-—Acceptance by Pope Pius of the resignation of Cardinal Gasparri from his post as sec- retary of state of the Holy See is ex- pected shortly. The cardinal, who is 77 years old, has been considering retiring from his dlg,uu as secretary of state for some e. MOTORIST SMILE At last we have the motorist who was fearless enough to do the thing that almost every motorist has’ longed to do. Ralph Meade of Collt , Tenn., blew his horn nt. "u]{e" driver a:ho was proceeding at a slow pace down U street yesterday afternoon, directly in front of him and in a way that made it impossible for any one desiring to go some place to pass. Meade“‘toot- ed” again, but the second sounding of the signal had no apparent effect. Reaching, into the rear of his car, the gentleman from the South selected a | choice brick, and, reaching far out of the front window of his machine, hurled Sixth street to picket a shoe company on_the tenth floor. Police reserves broke up the demon- stration and made the arrests when the picketers blocked the street and sang comm ic ‘songs. The prisoners were charged with disorderly conduct. . Radio Programs—Page 12 it straight and true at the car in front. The missed the offending driver by inches and crashed through the windshield of his automobile. Ruby Downs, a policeman, chanced to be at hand and saw the incident. Admitting that he secretly admired the assaulter, his sense of duty proved stronger than his sentiment and he rushed down the street, sounding his police whistle. Both 4 . FOR TOSSING BRICK AT ‘ROAD HOG’ Policeman Secretly Admires Tennessean, but Locks Him Up for Assault. . | booked on an assai S IN HIS CELL cars stopped and Meade was escorted to the. eighth precinct, where he was ult charge. Meade did not have the $10 collateral which the desk sergeant demanded for his freedom. But he went to his cell smilingly. He was a man well satisfled with himself. He had done good work and he knew it. He had “passed” a “road-hog.” Police later inspected the Tennessee- an's small touring car and found many other bricks similar to the one had picked up on U street as “evidence.” Their conclusion was that “Meade had secured enough bricks to last him as y not acquiesce in of OUSTER OF MELLON 1S NORRIS' PLAN FOR DRY ENFORCEMENT Nebraskan Joins Borah in Condemnation of Present Personnel of Service. SECRETARY IS BLAMED FOR PRESENT FAILURES Senator Jones Urges Commission to Make Early Report on Prohibition. By the Assoclated Press. The resignation of Secretary Mellon was demanded as the first step in a “clean up” of prohibition enforcement today by Senator Norris of Nebraska, & Republican dry, who joined with Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, in condemning the personnel of the en- forcement service. % ‘The Nebraskan blamed “politics” in the enforcement service for what he described as the “failure” of enforce- ment. When asked where he would start in reorganizing he replied qui “With Andrew W. Mellon.” “I don't say the law 1s not enforced everywhere,” said Norris, who is chair- man of the judiciary committee, “but I do_say it is not generally enforced, and I think there is evidence that the politicians are meddling too much. don’t think Andrew Mellon, who is the chief enforcement officer, is in pathy with the law. I don't demand prohibition cranks, “In fact, I don’t want any cranks in the service, but I want an adminis- tration of that law which is free from political influence.” The prohibition storm continued to rumble in the Capital today. Senator Jones, Republican, Washington, calling upon the Law Enforcement Commission to urge an early report by it. However, the Republican dry leader failed to find Chairman Wickersham and a majority of his commission on hand and he made an appointment for a return call early next week. Opposition to a plan announced by the Treasury to reduce the number of ports of entry from Canada was in- dicated by Representative Pittenger, Re- publican, Minnesota. Senator Borah of Idaho, another ardent dry, took the current prohibi- tion dispute to the Executive Mansion yesterday and discussed it thoroughly over the luncheon table with President Hoover, t was said was not re- stan expressed by Norris that the ills { enforcement lie in the personnel to which it is intrusted. ‘Undersecretary Mills of the Treasury has passed back to Congress the re- sponsibility for lmgmvtng enforcement conditions along the border. His de- partment is ready, he said, to_submit yhm for a unified border patrol and a imited number of Canadian ports of entry as soon as Congress approves President Hoover's recommendation for a joint committee to study enforce- ment questions. . House Action Awaited. The Senate adoptéd a resolution to establish such a ‘committee just be- fore recessing for the holidays and a similar House measure is awaiting action by the rules committee. Senator Sheppard, Democrat, Texas, a co-author of the eighteenth amend- ment, entered the lists with an asser- tion that enforcement is a success as measured by the standard of a majority of people obeying the law and a ma- Jority of cases against offenders result- ing in convictions. He said he believed President Hoover is doing everything within his power to improve enforcement, that he is in in- timate touch with the men directly re- sponsible and that these agencies are entitled to public confidence and sup- ort. Senator Harris, Democrat, Georgla, who precipitated the present discussion by demanding a preliminary report on prohibition from the Hoover Law En- forcement Commission, has asserted that increased funds will solve the problem and make possible the employment of more capable enforcement officers. Curran Issues Statement. ‘While the Senatorial disputants over enforcement were having their say, Henry H. Curran, president of the asso- ciation against the prohibition amend- ment, issued a formal statement con- cerning the developments. It read: “I see by the papers that Borah says the only trouble with prohibition is that the snoopers do not snoop efficiently, but Mitchell says the trouble is with Congress, while Doran says the trouble is with the American people. “Did it never occur to any of them that perhaps the trouble lies in the law itself? “Perhaps they have read their Tolan- the well enough to make up a trip and do this little chorus for us: ““The law is the true embod: Of everyt! that's excellent. It has no kind of fault or flaw And I, my lords, embody the law.’” PROPAGANDA SOURCE SOUGHT BY MEXICANS Seditious Matter Discovered Among Troops Stationed in Capital Garrison. By the Assoctated Press. MEXICO CITY, December 27.—The newspaper Excelsior sald today that the circulation of seditious propaganda among troops in the Mexico Oity gar- rison had been discovered and that the government, was taking steps to sup- Press it and arrest those responsible. The paper added that former Gen. Federico Barrera, recently arrested and charged with plotting against the gov- ernment, was deported to Laredo by a regular train yesterday accompanied by military guard. THREE DIE IN FIRE. henpl:ased through the city on his way north.” The man found friends this morning and posted the desired collateral. He bade the “bluecoats” house a hearty adieu. Still smiling, he hopped into his car and was on his way. He failed to show up at Police Court this morning, 8o his friends’ went into the public coffers. at the station | fle money 2 FARRELL, Pa., December 27 (#).—A mother and’two of her children died today by suffocation in a fire that dam- aged their home here. Their bodies were found in a bathroom, where they had d while other members of the house: hold were escq, ping. The dead are: Mrs. a daughter, Mari e, 4, and a son, Paul, TWo other children, Sarah,. 6, and John, 3, were injured seriously. . d \ e i, e q NO SENATE FOR CALVIN. ORTIZ RUBIO PUTS <= WREATH,ON TOMB Mexican President-Elect and Party Greeted by Salute of 21 Guns. Pascual Ortiz Rubio, President-elect of Mexico, surrounded by a colorful entourage of gaily uniformed diplomats from his own country, members of his family and American Army and State Department officials, spent a busy day in the Capital today, visiting Mount Vernon, paying homage to America's war dead at Arlington National Ceme- tery, lunching with Secretary of State Stimson at the latter's home, at Wood- ley, and paying his Tespects to Vice President Curtis. The future chief executive and his party started out at 9 o'clock this morning, and by lunch time they had seen & goodly portion of the town and the surrounding country. It was a brief but impressive cere- mony that attended his visit to Arling- ton upon his return from Mount Ver- noon this morning. Arriving by way of Fort Myer, he was greeted by the booming of cannon in a 21-gun salute. The party left the procession of White House automobiles, which were put at their disposal by President Hoover, and entered the Arlington Cemetery amphi- theater. Band Strikes Up Anthem. As the Mexican party came out on the east steps of the amphitheater the United States Army Band, drawn up before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, played the Mexican national anthem. Then the Mexican leader placed upon the tomb a giant wreath made é{p of scores of purple orchids. He and Senora Ortiz Rublo posed tor several minutes for a battery of camera men. As the party left by way of Fort Myer another 21-gun salute was fired. Similar homage was paid by Senor Ortiz Rublo at the tomb of George ‘Washington at Mount Vernon. ‘The visitor was particularly impressed with the beauty of Mount Vernon. He lingered long on his visit there; and delayed the ceremony at Arlington for some time. As _he left the old house overlooking the Potomac, where Washington spent the last years of his life, he voiced his admiration of the place itself and of the man whose personality he found written upon it. Praises Washington’s Memory. “The simplicity of the life of George ‘Washington is attested by all the as- pects of his life, which really was the cradle of all democracies. The respec and veneration with which the Ameri- can people keep the memory of Wash- ington alive testify as to his permanent greatness,” he . He nally superintended the plac- ing of a wreath upon the tomb where the Father of His Country and Mrs. ‘Washington lie side by side. From Arlington the procession re- turned to the Mexican embassy, there to dress in ation for the luncheon with S and Mrs. Stimson at ‘Woodley. This afterncon Senor Ortiz Rublo planned a call upon Vice President Curtis at his office in the Senate Office Bull . _Vice President Curtis was to return the call later in the afternoon at_the Mexican embassy. ‘Tonight at 8 o'clock President Hoover will be host to the distinguished visitor and his party at a State dinner at the White House. A visit to Annapolis, with luncheon at the Naval Academy, will occupy the greater portion of the party's time to- morrow. Following an exchange of courtesies between the President-elect of Mexico and President Hoover, shortly after the (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) — e CALIFOfiNIAN SENTENCED FOR BRANDING HIS WIFE Faces 90 Days’ Term on Charge of Searing Her With Electric Iron on Christmas Day. By the Assoclated Press. SAN LEANDI charge of having branded his wife on the chin and chest ted from the Silva home on Christmas day brought neighbors, who in turn called the police. Mrs. Silva said her hus- band had been drinking, tore an elec- tric iron from her hand and branded er. In court yesterday, where he faced a battery charge, Silva denied his wife's accusations and sald he was ‘only playing.” He insisted that the iron slipped in his hand, searing Mrs. Silva. She was severely burned. | ! Husband Bids Diamonds With Thirteen Hearts By the Associated Press. BOSWORTH, Mo, December 27.—In the niche of the hall of fame occupied by Roy Riegels and Fred Merkle place Wes Staf- ford, hardware dealer. Stafford drew a perfect bridge hand in hearts—and bid diamonds. His hand was “all red,” so Staf- ford, the dealer, bid one diamond without inspecting his cards close- ly, “just to get the game started. The other three players passed. When Stafford looked again at his hand he found 13 hearts. He laid the unplayed hand on the table. Comment of Mrs. Stafford, his partner, is not of record. PRESIDENT SHIFTS WORKING QUARTERS Temporary Offices in State, War, Navy Building—Cabi- net in Lincoln Room. President Hoover has again shifted his temporary working quarters and this afternoon is handling the affairs of the Government on the second floor of the State, War and Navy Building. Earlier in the day the cabinet gath- ered in the study in the White House where Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation and sat around the table used by President Adams and his cab- inet. Four members of the cabinet were seated in chairs used by President Lincoln’s cabinet during the days of the Civil War. At one end of the room next to the fireplace was the old desk on which Lincoln signed the proclamation which ended slavery in the United States. Over the mantle above the fireplace was a steel engraving depicting Lin- coln and members of his cabinet. It is one of the famous pictures having to do with the Lincoln administration. Long Record Broken. ‘Today’s cabinet meeting was the first held in the main building of the White House in a quarter of a century. The destroyed executive offices were built early in the administration of President Roosevelt. In the State, War and Navy Build- ing the President himself is using the room which was for so many years the private office of the heads of the Navy Department and which, during the past few years, has been the office of Gen. John J. Pershing, first while he was general in the Army and since as head of the Battle Monuments Commission. The room in some respects is more at- tractive and convenient than the one the Presidents have been using in the ill-fated executive office of the White House. At least it is far more colorful and ornate and there are many more objects of personal interest in the room. ‘The President should not feel that he is in a strange setting, inasmuch as the 1 windows look right out upon the White + House and the surrounding ds. | _ The entire east corridor of the State, ‘War and Navy Build.lng has been turned over to the President for the use of his executive activities. ‘The quarters which have been obtained are very ac- ceptable and it is the opinion of those who have been making the arrange- ments that the President and his asso- ciates will not be in the least incon- venienced. In fact, it is believed that these temporary quarters will, in many respects, be more convenient than the ones in the west wing of the White louse. _Since it was decided to move EDUCATED POLICE SEEN FOR FUTURE {Sociologists Told Training Will Equal That of Law- yers and Doctors. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. The days of the sturdy, substantial “cop” probably are numbered. In his place will come the professional man with a training “at least equiva- lent to the professions of law and medicine.” Such was the implication of the ad- dress of Prof. A. G. Berry of the Uni- versity of Wisconsin at the opening | meeting of the American Soclety at the Willard today. | Caught in the extremely complex so- ICOURT WITHHOLDS FINAL DECISION ON BOARD'S AUTHORITY Judge ‘Schuldt Refuses to Pass on Verbal Request to Make Jurors Talk. SHELBY AND KELLY TRIAL TO REOPEN ON MONDAY Joseph H. Batt Joins Three Others ‘Who Declined to Answer Call to Testify. The basis for what threatens to be- come a stiff legal test of the authority of the Police ‘I'tial Board to compel a witness to testify was laid this after- noon when Police Judge Gus A. Schuldt refused to pass on a verbal request of the corporation counsel's office that two members of the July grand jury be in- structed to testify before the board un- til the court has been presented with a fmimndl petition outlining legal issues in- volved. The court reached this decision after a legal skirmish percipitated in Police Court this afternoon, when Prosecutors Fowler and Lynch in the Shelby-Kelly trial sought vainly to have Judge Schuldt airect Samuel P. Agnew and Baxter M. Davidson, members of the grand jury which criticized Inspector Shelby and Lieut. Kelly, to give testimony at the trial of the officers. In the case of Joseph H. Batt, an- other grand jury member who falled to_appear when summoned to_testify today in the police trial, Judge Schuldt granted a request of the corporation counsel that Batt be compelled to ap- pear before the trial board on Decem- ber 30. Batt, the court was informed, appeared when first summoned and was excused until this morning. When his name was called there was no an- swer, #nd Lynch advised the court m he learned Batt had gone out of Attorneys Object. Agnew and Davidson appeared in court today with their attorneys, Harry T. \Xhellnn ;r;d Robert I. Miller, re- spectively. th attorneys vigos objected to any action by the com the merits of the case at issue until the trial board and the corporation counsel’s office’ have presented to the court a formal citation against their clients. Judge Schuldt was inclined at first to adopt the suggestion of the corpora- tlon counsel’s office that he order Agnew and Davidson to testify, without judging the issues until they have refused to obey the court's order. Incensed at Attack. The cases of Agnew and Davidson dif- fer from that of Chance in that the cial phenomena of & new age with new sclentific concepts of crime and pun- ishment, Prof. Berry said, the police- | man should be a specialist. This is developing from police schools and de- partments of a few universities, but, the speaker said, there is a great diversity of theories and subjects taught and the process can be considered only at its beginning. New Methods Bring Changes. The nearly 20,000,000 motor vehicles in use in the United States alone with the multiplicity of traffic laws needed to regulate them, he said, are an im- portant factor in the need for a new type of policeman since all demand dealing with the individual citizen. Other changes have been brought about by new methods of crime detection with the microscope, the chemical test tube, and other .exact processes demandin; scientific knowledge. Most important of all, he pointed out, are the contributions of "the social sclences which have overthrown many of the old concepts of the causes of human behavior and in this respect the lawyer as well as the policeman finds himself becoming out of date. The social science are showing more and more, he said, that anti-social behavior is the direct result of previous experi- ence and that every case is & separate problem demanding the professional services of an expert. As knowledge of these findings of the social sclences becomes more general, he sald, respect for law by citizens as “something God-given” has given way to the conception that “laws are tools of social experiment,” created and sub- Ject to change by the people who create them. Police practice, he said, generally has treated each crime in the same way, (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) PARENTS FIND VICTIM OF AUTO IS SON, 2 Accident at Dallas Occurs While Couple Is in Store, Stranger Bringing in Mangled Form. By the Assoclated Press. D, , Tex, December 27.—The Christmas toys of- 2-year-old Cecil Collins, jr., were put away today. Yesterday while his parents were vis- iting a kinsman’s small grocery, & man entered, holding in his arms the form ! of a child. “He was struck by an auto,” said tie man. “Get help.” Mr. and Mrs. Collins looked at the child. It was their son. | He died in a hospital. (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) A woman was said to have driven the death car, and is sought by police. By the Associated Press. EVANSTON, Ill, December 27. — Rarely has C. Miles MacDonald been 80 embarrassed as yesterday when strange nolses emitted from his auto- mobile, MacDonald prides himself in his mo- tor car. Its silence, its smoothness; ah, what a vehicle! But yesterday, right downtown, he stepped on the starter and was dismayed at the resultant racket. It was as though gadgets, fly- Wheels, pistons and whatnots were tear- ing each other's hair out; it was as though the engine had decided to dis- this ' “ENGINEER” NEARLY BREAKS UP MOTOR DEPARTMENT OF AUTO Pilot Found Something All Wrong, but Never Knew Until He Lifted Hood. associate itself from the car and was running around inside the hood, pound- ing violently on all sides as if to say, “Let me out of this joint!” Mr. MacDonald disembarked. He be- came the center of interest to a grouj of persons who should have been mind- g l‘nh‘lrl S Z“““fgfi' misgivings, he Gingerly, and Wi lifted the hood. Out po] a rat. How the rat got into the engine first two refused to answer ‘an; tlons whatsoever, while Chance ed re-g:? until be became incensed at a verbal attack made upon him by Assist- ant United States Atto: Walter Shea. The former foreman ed to 80 on with his testim action of the it ting Shea to characterize Chance as “a mental misfit, drunk with authority” in P BT 1 ot 's case differs that of either of the trio mentioned, for' Batt did not even appear before the board. At his home Ngelt was sald he was out of town for Christmas holidays. was on hand in the witness room for Sver: and apparently was renge o tans 3 ntly was re e the stand at that time. Let Case Drop. ‘The board's action in Batt's case was similar to that taken against Mr. and Mrs. Roy Heavrin of the Park Lane :&-nmenu. who were arrested and en before the board under an order issued by the Police Court after they had failed to answer subpoenas sent by the board. The Heavrin couple re- fused to testify when they appeared before the board, but no further effort was made to compel them to take the stand. The %roucuuon explained that they let the Heavrin case drop because it did not consider their testimony so important as that sought from the members of the grand jury. The trial board was in session scarcely more than 10 minutes this morning at the sixth precinct station house. The name of Batt was called and when no answer was received Prosecutor Lynch arose and told the board he understood Batt had been present in the witness Toom for several days, but had said he mdf to leave the city. “We didn't excuse him from appear- ing,” Lynch said, “and therefore we must ask that the board take action such as has been taken in the case of other witnesses, to cite him to the Police Court and compel him to testify.” Orders Action Taken, Chairman L. E. Atkins thereupon is- sued instructions that steps be taken by the n;g:flntendent of police to cite Batt to court without delay. The :nrd then adjourned untl 10 am. londay. Batt is sald to have been a member of a committee of the grand jury ap- fomud'w draw up the report criticiz- ing the police in connection with the inquiry into the death of Virginia Mc- Pherson. He was to have been the last prosecution witness, with the exception of Assistant United States Attorney Willlam H, Collins, who has been ill. “I understand that the prosecution 1s not going to call Mr. Collins,” De- ((.:onunued on Page 2, Column 2.) — MERCURY SHOOTS UP AFTER LOW RECORDS Arkansas, Texas, Kansas and Okla- homa Temperatures Run From Zero to Around 70. BY the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, December 27.—Rush- ing from one extreme to another, the weather gods of the lower Middle West have replaced the blizzard conditions of last week with record high tempera- tures for this season. ‘Throughout the southern half of the Central States the mercury hung well up in the 50s yesterday, and in Ar- klpiemna, D | kansas, Texas, Kansas sue, <} visited 'only a few days ago by zero tem- %r;.:uru, the readings were as high as St. Joseph, Mo., with 56 degrees, saw a record of at least 19 years shattered for that date. Weather Bureau records chamber is not clear. MacDonald lkes to believe the rat deliberately chose his machine as being the best in town. In the cold light of sclence, however, 1s not so good. g :l‘elr: unavailable for years preceding Maximums in Kansas City and St. Louis were 56, Wichita and Oklahoma City, 62, and Fort Forth, 70, 4