Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1930, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy, with snow or rain tonight and -probably tomorrow: colder; minimum temperature about 26 degrees. Temper- atures—Highest, 49, at 4:15 p.m. yester- day; lowest, 33, at 5 a.m. today. Full report on page 14. Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 8,9 & 10-B = @b ¢ #p ening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Yesterday's Circulation, 114,313 No. 31,336. post _office, Entered as second class matte: ‘Washington, PC WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, - () Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. 0—THIRTY PAGES, PARLIAMENT CRISIS INFRANCE BLOCKS NAVALCOWPROMISE Talk of Tonnage Total Cut, If Tardieu Can Get Paris to Agree, Is Heard. AMERICANS TAKE SILENT ROLE AT CONFERENCE Attend Parley in Which Tardieu, Briand and Macdonald Seek to Settle Differences. Br the Associated Press. LONDON, February 15.—The Five- Power Naval Conference today is square up against what has been foreseen frem the first as one of its most diffi- cult problems—reconciliation of French naval demands with what the other powers think a reasonable French figure. The situation has been complicated | considerably by development of an in- | ternal political erisis in the French| Parliament, where important social leg- | islation is up for a vote. The govern- ment's position already is strained on | this account. Any retreating at London might easily prove embarrassing for Premier Tarcieu, who yvesterday went back to Paris to meet with his cabinet. Reports of Possible Cut. ‘There were reports in some quarters that in a conference yesterday with Col. Stimson and Premier Macdonaid, Premier Tardieu intimated that the French demands for a total tonnage of | Kt 00 could be reduced if France's| 2 ment could be talked into com-| promising. | While “beyond the Alps lies Italy,” is always to be considered, the problem | is regarded as essentially Anglo-French. Col. Stimson and his advisers sitting in vesterday in the conversation between Mr. Macdonald, Premier Tardieu and Aristide Briand were said to have played almost silent roles, although realizing that if the problem is not settleg prop- erly the fate of the conferenfe may hang in the balance. Power Fact Talk Heard. ‘There was some talk of a possible three-power treaty in the event that France and Italy should remain recalci- trant, but this was met generally by the statement that neither the American Senate nor the British Parliament would ratify any such agreement. A four-power agreement, if Italy should remain outside the fold, it was consid- ered, would have some more chance of success, since it-is not believed Italy would actually exert its right to build | up to the French navy. However, the French position in the Mediterranean is too irrevocably related to British requirements there to permit conclusion of any treaty not acquiesced in by the Paris government. Conference circles theoretically rested this week end, but as a matter of fact probably were more interested than at any week end since the conference | opening in_ the immediate problem | which they had at hand. ! The conference has nearly rounded | out its fourth week, showing these prin- | cipal results: A general agreement to “humanize” submarines and virtual ac- ceptance of a compromise plan for measuring “global” fleet tonnage and tonnage by categories. Tonnage Desires Stated. In addition, France has produced a | statement of its tonnage requirements and the United States, Great Britain and Japan have set forth their general naval desires and needs. Above all, some observers stressed, there has been a growth and development of the spirit of conciliation which marked the con- ference beginning, and there is now apparently sincere hope that some ac- ceptable accord will be reached before the middle of March. Premier Macdonald is entertaining { visiting newspaper men at tea at Chequers today. Col. Stimson is spend- ing the week end at Stanmore, enter- taining Senator Robinson and Secre- tary Adams and their wives. The Brit- ish Empire delegations will take lunch at Stanmore Sunday. Dwight W. Morrow, American Am- | bassador to Mexico, and member of the American delegation, went into confer- ence this morning with Dino Grandi, chief of the Italian delegation, at Mr. | Morrow’s Hotel It was of more than passing interest “hat Mr. Morrow was a party to all the | conversations the Americans previously have had with the French delegation. ‘The Ambassador was said to have a firm | | " (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) SOVIET TRADE BODY | IN NORWAY QUSTED| Moscow, in Discharging Entire Delegation, Denounces Deals ‘With Norwegian Exporters. BY BJORN BUNKHOLDT. s d Chi R + OSLO, Norway, February 15—A sec- ond scandal involving Soviet repre- séptatives has developed here. This time it centers around the commercial delegation, which today was discharged in & body by telegraph orders from Moscow because of “fraternization with bourgeois and failure to spread com- munism.” * The same ingenious woman diplomar, although in a different role, figures as s principal—Mme. Alexandra Kollon- tay, Soviet Minister to Norway. Important deals with Norwegian ex- | porters of fish and machinery were di- rectly responsible for stirring the wra'h of the powers in Moscow. Recently the - Soviet Commercial body entered into negotiations with the Norwegian ex- TS, but the transactions were ar- ranged chiefly by Mme. Kollontay. Now Yoscow denounces the whole affair. In the previous scandal concerning Russian representatives here, Alexan- der Makar, recently Minister to Mexico until his departure following a diplo- matic rupture, engineered an intrigue climaxed by the transfer of Mme. Kol- Jontay, then Soviet envoy to Norwa: to Mexico. But Mme. Kollontay, a a few months in Mexico, returned to Europe on her own initiative and rc- covered her Oslo post. ‘ Redio Programs on Page B-16 |TRAFFIC JAMS WHILE CONGRESS MEMBER AND CHAUFFEUR ROW Representative Busby and McCarl Driver- in ERemarks Draw Large Crowd to Scene in Front of White House. A heated and lengthy right-of-way dispute between Representative Jeff Busby of Mississippi and the colored chauffeur of Controller General Mc- | Carl's official limousine disrupted traf- fic and attracted a large audience in front of the White House today, the impasse being broken only by the ar- | rival of a traffic officer who suggested that both parties ght to be arrested for blocking traffic. i The chauffeur refused to give Repre- ! sentative Busby his name with the re- ! mark, “You'll know me when you see {me again.” but R. F. Martin, chief clerk f the generai accounting office, said | that McCarl's car was being driven this morning by Clarence Murray, one of the | controller’s official drivers. No pas- | senger was in the limousine. The controversy started when _the big limousine driven by the chauffeur. and the automobile which Representa- | tive Busby was driving, in company | with a friend, came within inches of colliding near the middle of the inter- | section of Pennsylvania avenue and ‘West Executive avenue. | Both cars came to a sudden stop after | Near-Crash. ’ S | | avenue in a southerly direction. ! short swerves, with the front bumper of the Representative’s car almost touching the right front fender of Mc- Carl's machine. | The Mississippian accused the chauf- | feur of cutting in front of him on the wrong side of the intersection. The former’s car was heading east, and the | chauffeur was crossing Pennsylvania The chauffeur, resenting the Repre- | sentative's remarks, did not move his car out of the latter’s way, and traffic became backed up in several directions. The argument continued with increas- ing wari for an_estimated 10 min- "~ (Contf on"Page 2, Column 3. JAPAN STILL SEEKS J0 PER CENT RATID Tokio Emphasizes Schedules | Given Reed Were Framed to | Reach Quota Exactly. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, February 15.—Although the | British press appears. to assume that Japan is prepared to give up her claim for 70 per cent of American naval tonnage, since that claim was not men- tioned in the Japanese memorandum published this week, it is emphasized here that Japan has no such inten- tion. On the contrary, it is explained, the schedules given in the Japanese memo- randum, and the note handed Senator Reed last Wednesday, are so framed as to give Japan exactly 70 per cent of American strength in total auxiliaries | and in large cruisers. It was learned today from an unim- peachable source that figures previously quoted in the two alternative schedules proposed to the American delegation were only “substantially correct.”” The actual figures are, for the first schedule: American, large cruisers, 180,000 tons; Japan, 126,000 tons. America, small cruisers, 146,000 tons; Japan, 81,700 tons. America, destroyers, 150,000 tons; Japan, 105,000 tons. America, sub- :nnrlnes. 81,000 tons; Japan, 77,900 | ons. In the second proposed schedule the figures were: America, large cruisers, 150,000 tons; Japan, 108,400 tons; America, small cruisers, 189,000 tons; Japan, 107,700 tons; America, destroy- ers, 150,000 tons; Japan, 105,000 tons; America, submarines, 81,000 tons; Japan, 77,900 tons. If America desires only 60,000 tons of submarines, Japan is willing that she should transfer 21,000 tons to her de- stroyer category, which then would be- come 171,000 tons. Japan, however, would retain 77,000 tons of submarines. SNOW FLURRY SERVES AS ADVANCE WARNING | Weather Bureau Forecasts Another | Storm Starting Wednesday or Thursday. A flurry of snow shortly before noon | today served as an advance warning of | another period of snow which the| Weather Bureau forecasts for next| week. ‘The snow is scheduled to extend over | the entire section of North and Middle | Atlantic States Wednesday or Thurs- | day and may be followed by another fall at the end of the week. Fluctuating temperatures, with Wed- nesday as the coldest day also were forecast. Mostly fair weather with tem- peratures below normal is scheduled for the South early next week followed by | warmer spells. HUSBAND GETS 5 YEARS. Vincent Reigle Sentenced for Ham- mer Attack on Wife and Soldier. Vincent Reigle, secently convicted of assaults with a hammer on his wife, Madaline Reigle, and Sergt. Thomas Garfield of Fort Myer was sentenced today by Justice Peyton Gordon to serve five years in the penitentiary. The court fixed the penalty. for each assault at five years, but allowed the sentences to run concurrently. Reigle found his wife and the soldier in an automobile in front of his home, 2411 Twenty-second street northeast, August 29 last, and attacked both of them. Sergt. Garfield was in a hospital | year and that he and his personnel BYRD AND WILKINS PLAN RETURN TRIP Antarctic Expeditions Have Completed Intensive Study of Region. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 15.— After subjecting the Antarctic region to the most intensive study it ever has re- ceived, one expedition was headed for home today, another was preparing to leave. Indications that the expedition head- ed by Admiral Richard E. Byrd was breaking camp at Little America were given in a radio conversation last night between the expedition’s radio operator and the operator at the research station of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- | nology at South Dartmouth, Mass. After the nightly exchange of mes- sages, the operator at Little America said, “This is the last time we will talk to you from Little, America.” He added that the entire arty was sleep- ing in tents and that the temperature was 10 degrees below zero. ‘Wilkins Party Leaves Island. The New York American, sponsor of | the Antactic expedition, headed by Sir Hubert Wilkins, said today that 8ir| Hubert has completed his work for the; had left Deception Island, his base, for N?onuvldeu n‘r’x the steamship Henrik Ibsen. Capt. Wilkins' return to his base was made in the whaler Willlam Scoresby after a terrific battle with mountainous seas. He had been in the Antarctic ice three weeks, during two of which he had been lost to radio communication. Both Groups Conduct Research. Capt. Wilkins sailed last September to continue a%study of conditions in that region started the previous year. ‘The Byrd expedition reached the Ant- arctic in December, 1928. Rear Ad-/ miral Byrd and the various scientists | with the expedition carried on extensive | research work, while Byrd made a| flight over the South Pole. TAFT RESTING QUIETLY, BULLETIN DECLARES| Physicians Report No Material| Change in Condition of Ex-Chief Justice. | By the Associated Press. willilam Howard Taft was said byi his physicians to be resting quietly | today and it was reported that there | had been no material change in his | condition. A bulletin at noon from the White House read: “There is no material change in the condition of the former Chief Justice. He is resting quietly.” It was signed by Dr. Thomas A. Claytor and Dr. Francis R. Hagner. During the day Speaker Longworth presented to the House a communica- tion from Mrs. Taft thanking the House for the resolution adopted expressing | | regret over the ill health of her | | husband. | U S ey | AUBURN JURY STILL OUT. | Deliberate 18 Hours in Riot Case| Without Verdict. AUBURN, N. Y, February 15 (#).— | The jury in the case of six convicts charged with the murder of Henry Sul- livan, a leader of the prison riot last December, had failed to reach a verdict for two months as the result of the assault. at 10 am. today after nearly 18 hours of deliberation. POLICEMEN TO DIRECT COUPLES |a complete liquor | and brought into play all manner of AWAY FROM ‘MARRYING JUSTICES’ Crown PointMayor to Station Officers Outside of License Bureau to End Monopoly. By the Associated Press. CROWN POINT, Ind., February 15.— Policemen to direct the matrimonial trafic from the Marriage License Bureau to the offices of the justices of the peace figure prominently in the latest plan evolved by Mayor Youkey to divide the business of the “marryin’ squires.” Mayor Youkey, reiterating last night his opinion that marriage is Crown Point’s “greatest industry,” sald he would station one or more traffic police- men outside the ; door. N\ Couples emerging from the office of the county clerk with their licenses to marry will be courteously and will be directed to a squire.” I§ is the mayor's contention that the original “squire,” Howard H. Kemp, has had a monopoly on the Crown Point murrhg: too long. He contends that Kemp an arrangement with the county clerk’s office for its aid in sending him couples that purchase marriage licenses. By using policemen, the mayor be- lieves he will be able to point out to ! the young couples that there are other “marryin’ squires” in town. ALLEGED BUYER WILL FACE TRIAL N NEW LIQUOR TEST Prosecutor Regards Against Clarendon, Va., Man as Model. WATCHED TRANSACTION Accused Couple Plead Not Guilty and Demand Trial by Jury. Prosecution of an alleged buyer in a liquor transaction, not only on the buying count, but also on a charge of liquor possession, for the first time in | the history of the national prohibition | act, was inaugurated in Police Court here today. What Assistant District Attorney David A. Hart regards as a model test case for the prosecution of an alleged buyer of liquor was turned up last night by two second precinct police- men and will be carried through for a ruling on whether a buyer can be prosecuted. There is a possibility that out of the case a ruling may eventually be had on the issue from the Supreme Court of the United States, though that, of course, would entail a Gov- ernment victory in the intermediate courts, starting with Police Court and consequent appeals by the defense. Hart has made a thorough investiga- tion of the evidence in the case of John Wayland of Clarendon, Va, who was arrested with Myrtle Schools, colored, of 32 P street after policemen of the sec- ond precinct are alleged to have watched transfer, including transfer of money and alleged corn whisky. Hart Believes He Has Case. Assistant District Attorney Hart this morning declared that after several weeks of search for such a case he be- lieves he now has one that he can con- scientiously prosecute through the courts under section 6 of the national prohibition act. ‘This section provides that it shall be unlawful to “manufacture, sell, pur- chase, transport or prescribe any liquor without first obtaining permission from the commission.” _Efforts_have been made throughout (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) PRESIDENT SEEKS LAST-INUTE PRIZE Hoover Makes Final Attempt | to Land Big Sailfish Before | Returning Home. BY RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Correspondent of The Star. LONG KEY, Fla, February 15— | President Hoover this morning again | was out in the Gulf stream of the At- | lantic, about 10 miles from shore, in a final effort to make a wofth-while | catch. Unless he fares better during| these last hours of his Florida outing | he is going back to Washington a sore- | ly disappointed angler. The President’s luck has been none | of the best. He has been disappointed, but by no means crestfallen or dis- gruntled. He has fished long and hard | patience and technique, but his score is about the poorest of any one in his party. Sailfish Are Standard. Sportsmen here consider nothing worthwhile but a sailfish. That deni- | zen appears to be the only thing by which an angler may establish himseli. The President has the satisfaction of having caught ane, on his first day out. | It weighed 45 pounds, but no fisher- | man of his skill and reputation would | boast of landing only one of these fighters in five days of steady fishing | in waters said to abound in them. Ten | sailfish have been caught by the mem- bers of the party, three by Mark Sulli- van, two by Dr.’ Vernon Kellogg, two by Justice Stone and one each by Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Stone. Hearing sailfish were plentiful in the vicinity of Sombrero Key, 25 miles| away, the President went there yester- | day, but this expedition turned out to | be nothing more than a pleasant ride. Mark Svllivan was the only one to land a sailfish, Hoover Catches 5-Pound Mackerel. The President’s contribution to yes- terday’s catch was a 5-pound Spanish mackerel, a group of kingfish and a bar- racuda of tender age. It was well after dark when the; party returned last night. ‘The President left today with no definite hour for his return. Box luncheons were taken in case he decid- ed to stay out until the last moment be- fore getting back in time to change clothes and board the train for Wash- ington, H The train bearing the presidential party will leave here soon after supper tonight and will arrive in Washington Monday morning in time to put the grrsh’lenl at his desk at his customary our. Three Children Die As Fire Razes Home; Three Are Rescued By the Associated Press. RACINE, Wis., February 15.— ‘Three children were burned to death and their parents and one other child were burned seriously in a fire caused by an overheated stove that destroyed the home early today. The dead are three sisters, Phyllis Christensen, 4; Bonnie, 2, and Edna, 10 months old. The parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Christensen, and a daugh- ter, Irene, 6, were saved by fire- men, but were burned so severely they were not expected to live. Case| Ul AN L7 IR 11, ) /, ' ¥ / ) ; MEMORIAL DAY, TOLL BRIDGE WORK 1S PUT UNDER WY BY GREATFALLS D ECorporation Relies on Char- ter Rights and Enabling Act Provisions. FREE BRIDGE PROVIDED IN SENATE AMENDMENT Construction Continues in Face of Proposed Revocation of Com- pany's Charter. Work preparatory to actual construc- tion on the toll bridge at Great Falls has been started, it announced to- day by the Great Falls Bridge Co., de- spite the action of the House in taching a rider to the Cramton P: purchase bill, providing for revocation {of the charter of the concern. In the Senate yesterday Senator | Glass introduced an amendment to the Cramton bill providing for a free bridge at the Falls, to be built by the Government. A House amendment also asks for this. Harry A. Seay, president of the bridge | corporation, in making the announce- RPORT PROPOSED SOUTH OF BRIDGE Commissioner Considers De- velopment of One or Combi- i nation of Present Fields. Treated | By the Associated Press. | SAN FRANCISCO, February 15— Development of an airport for the| victims of cancer, the malignant dis- | National Capital near the south end of | ease which kills 115,000 Americans every Highway Bridge by using the Washing- | year and for which there is no known | ton Airport, or Hoover Field, or a com- | cure, flocked to San Francisco hope- | bination of these two existing flying| fully and in increasing numbers today | flelds was considered as, one possibility | to receive the new treatment originated | by the Joint Congressional Airport Com- | by Dr. Walter B. Coffey and Dr. John mission today, but no action taken. | D. Humber. Senator Bingham of Connecticut,| Facilities of the Southern Pacific Hos- pital, to which Dr. Coffey and Dr. | chairman, said the commisson ad-| gymber are attached, were put at the Journed without arriving at any deci- | disposal of the sufferers, and arrange- HUNDREDS OF CANCER VICTIMS SEEK NEW TREATMENT ON COAST; San Francisco Hospital Placed at Disposal of Sufferers, While Some Are jment explained that the company was complying with the provisions of the {enabling act for construction of the | bridge, under which the company was | required to begin operations by March |4 of this year. The act provides that the bridge must be completed in two years. Seay pointed out that the firm has already spent a large amount of money. including engineering costs, and has a permit from the War Department grant- ing permission to construct the bridge The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, he sald, has approved | plans for the bridge. | At the time the company began busi- ness, Seay said, there was no thought of a George Washington Memorial ; Parkway, which 1s to include the Great Falls area with riversides drives down to Mount Vernon, Va., and Fort Wash- |ington, Md. The bridge company's president cited the fact that, despite | the pending legislative situation, the | company has rights under its charter. | Further, he said, the parkway in Mary- land and Virginia is conditioned on those States paying their respective | shares,.and if the Legislatures of those States do not acquiesce, there will not be any parkway. With a corps of assistants, Dr. Hum- | Accordingly. Seay sald, his company ber worked steadily with his hypo. going ahead with plans and has dermic needle. Patients too ill to move | signed a construction contract with from their cars were treated at the | Merritt, Chapman & Scott of New curbing. There were about twice as| York. The associated engineers in | this work, he added, are the Strauss at Curb. have been freed of the disease, although in no instance was a patient pronounced | absolutely cured. | Rich and poor patients, sharing the | common desire to rid themselves of cancerous growths, besieged the clinic yesterday, more than 100 of them re- celving injections of the new serum. They came in expensive limousines, rattling old automobiles, on foot and on stretchers. i | | | sion and probably will meet again next | | week. The chairman said he could not tell whether definite action would be taken on the local airport problem at the next meeting. Another development came in the air- port situation today when Licut. Walter Hinton, world-famous flyer and chair- man of the Chamber of Commerce aviation committee, in a statement, charged that Senator Bingham and other members of the commission were “throwing up a smoke screen to con- i ceal their real opposition to granting the wishes of a majority of District people for construction of a model air- port at Gravelly Point.” At the same time, Hinton called a meeting of his committee for nex Thursday at 4:30 pm. to renew the fight for the Gravelly Point site. Officials in Parley. Officials of the Washington Airport and of the Hoover Field were in con- ference with the airport commission in executive session this morning. Senator Bingham said the commission was told what the present occupants of these private fields would dispose of their in- terests for, if it should be deemed ad- visable to utilize one or both of these sites for the District’s airport. He said he could not disclose the details fur- | nished the commission. The Washington Airport and Hoover‘ Field are situated on opposite sides of the Government highway on the Vir- ginia side of the river, and considered together, would make possible a 250- acre airport, Senator Bingham said. Following today’s meeting, Chair- man Bingham expressed the belief that the public has not kept in mind all of | the evidence brought out at the hear- ings last year relating to Gravelly Point, which, he said, has caused the com- mission to hesitate about that site. Huge Filling Task. Senator Bingham said that while it was true that Gravelly Point could be developed without much cost by taking the normal dredging from the river to make the fill, he contended that at that rate it would require 40 years to make | the fill. He said that if Gravelly Point was to be filled quickly to get an air- port at an early date, the cost would be about $5,000,000 and that about five " (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) SEARCH FOR BODY OF BOY CONTINUES| Pair Who Accuse Each Other of Murder Are Grilled. By the Associated Press. WOOSTER, Ohio, February 15— Conviction that the two men who have accused each other in signed state- ments of killing Melvin Horst are shielding others, today caused authori- ties to redouble their efforts to find the 4-year-old boy's body. A renewal of the almost incessant hammering at the stories of Charles Hanna, 50, and Earl Conald, 42, brought prospects today that the pair might “break.” # Finding of the body, Prosecutor. Ma- rion Graven and his special assistant, Walter J. Mougey, said, is necessary definitely to clear up the mystery of what happened to Melvin after he van- ished from his Orrville home December 27, 1928 Both Conald, an old friend of the Horst family, and Hanna, a former neighbor of the Horsts, have signed statements saying the other killed the child while they were drinking in a garage. Plane Crash Kills T;wo. CHICO, Calif., February 15 (&), James Elfendahl, 21, pilot. and Percy Little, 25, are dead and Clifford Squires, 22, is seriously injured as the result of a ments were made to open other clinics in the hope that the new treatment would prove itself effective against the scourge which medical sclence so far has been unable to conquer. { Dr. Coffey and Dr. Humber, still in- sistent that their treatment has not | proved itself as a cure, have obtained results which indicate that the serum | they obtain from the cortex of the | adrenal glands of sheep is able to dis- | solve cancerous tissues. It has given relief in a high percentage of cases, and some of the patients appeared to many men as women. To Dr. Humber and Dr. Coffey this phase of the work is simply a continua- tion on a large scale of the experiments they have been conducting for long years in silence. They have invited all rsons whose cases are considered opeless to submit themselves for treatment. All patients must have letters from the physicians who have been treatin; them and complete records of their cases. It is the “hopeless” cases that Drs. Humber and Coffey desire most. THOUSANDS WALK " AS TROLLEYS STOP Queer Power House Accident Ties Up Traffic at Rush Hour. Thousands of Government employes | were forced to walk to work from stalled street cars early today when the most | serfous tie-up in recent years stopped every Capital Traction line in the city |and numerous Washington Railway & | Electric lines in the northwest section. The tie-up came at the peak of the morning rush and from 7:52 until 8:30 not a wheel turned on the Capital | Traction system. Most of the lines of the W. R. & E. were out of commis- ‘sion for about 10 minutes, due to in- tersecting systems where both com- panies use the same tracks. Strange Accident Blamed. A strange mechanical accident in the | Georgetown power plant of the Capital Traction Co. was blamed for the jam. | An “air pocket” formed in the water feed line leading to the boilers. This caused the steam to diminish and it was impossible to generate electricity until the feed line was cleared. Most of the several hundred cars halted were filled to capacity with passengers. ‘Taxicab drivers reaped a rich harvest, but the demand far exceeded the supply. Every available bus of both traction | companies was placed in operation, but | were unable to cope successfully with | the situation. Motorists Besieged. Motorists in every section were be- sieged with requests for “lifts.” Even S0, scores of persons were left standing more than half an hour at car stops | throughout the city. | “Numerous Government clerks walked | 7 (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) ‘HOSPTAL PAY RLL Dressed as Worker, Seizes Money After Struggle With Woman. | By the Associated Pre: rouber escaped from the cashier's office m Providence Hospital at West Grand Boulevard and Fourteenth street short- Iy after 7 a.m. today with a pay roll of | $5,000. A number of nurses, other hospital employes and several carpenters and painters who had been doing repair work in the hospital werc lined up be- fore the cashier's cage receiving their wages. The robber, who was dressed in workman'’s clothing, was in the line-up. ‘When he reached the cage, he seized a }box containing pay envelopes and after !a struggle with Sister Rosario, the | cashier, ran from the building. | though one of the sisters said she saw | a weapon in his poeket. INVITED TO DEDICATION. Coolidge Will Be Asked to Lead Gila Valley Ceremony. PHOENIX, Ariz., February 15 (#).— Former President Calvin Coolidge will | be asked to dedicate the recently cor pleted Coolidge Dam in the Gila Val- ley, named in his honor, when he passes through Arizona tomorrow en route to California. P. D. Overfield, chairman of the dedi- cation committee named two years ago, will extend the invitation to the former President, who declined to attend any dedicatory exercises as long as he was President. \“STUDY OF EVIL” DEPARTMENT ROBBER GETS $a,000 He| DETROIT, Mich, February 15.—A! The robber did not draw a gun, al-| Mrs. Corra Harris, Novelist, to Instruct “Classic” Course at Florida Institution. | Engineering Corporation of Chicago | and Meigs, Long & Beale of Phila- | delphia and Washington. ! Contractor Testing Ground. ‘The contractor is now engaged in | testing out the ground for the founda- tions of the bridge and is boring down to bedrock for the abutments on the !|qulma side, Seay said. The bridge, which will cost approxi- mately $1,800,000. will be of concrete and steel and will be supported by 13 piers. It will be 1,979 feet long, ex- clusive of approaches. Plans provide for illumination at night, up to the falls and down the gorge, and the light- | ing equipment on the bridge proper will be of the indirect variety, the lights being placed in the curb, so as to avoid glare and resultant accidents, Seay explained. The bridge proper will be 43 feet wide, with a 30-foot roadway, insuring an 8-foot walk on the Great Falls side and a 5-foot walk on the lower side. Seating benches will be provided, under the plans of the company. Seay pointed out that the company was given a charter in 1928, but the chief of Army Engineers contended that the construction would occupy Govern- ment land. It was then necessary to go back to Congress and get consent to occupy Government land, and this has been given, he pointed out. This delay, accompanied by the inauspicious finan- cial market, brought about postpone- X ment of construction until this time, the { president._asserted. Meanwhile, Representative Cramton, Republican, of Michigan, author of the now-famous park purchase bill, said yesterday that the bridge company | might go ahead and complete co! | struction before the Government ac- jquires the expanse for the parkway. | Amendment Would Bar Toll. | | 'The Schafer-La Guardia amendments to the Cramton bill, specifically provid- ing for “a free bridge across the {tomac River at or near Great Falls” jand prohibiting the toll bridge shall be built within the confines of the pro- ed parkway, are an assurance that a ?‘f)ese bridge will be built, Representative Cramton, author of the legislation, said. He pointed out that the bridge com- | pany, which previously got authority from Congress to erect a toll bridge there, might still go ahead and com- | plete the erection before the land to be occupied by the abutments is acquired by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. In that event the bridge would be built along plars approved by the Planning Commission and the Commission of Fine Arts and could be forthwith acquired by the Governnment. In this way the desired bridge authorized in the George Wash- ington Memorial Parkway legislation would be more promptly built and opened for traffc. In discussing the bridge question Representative Cramton says: “If - the privately owned bridge is (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) |INDIAN ACTOR SUES RIVAL FOR $150,000 By the Associated P LONG BEACH, Calif,, February 15.— Robert Redwing. Cherokee Indian motion picture actor, Thursday filed suit in Su- perior Court against Charles Mancravie, Indian, for $150,000 damages for alleged alienation of the affections of Rose Marie, film actress and Redwing' Indian wife. A companion suit, asking $100,000 for injuries suffered by By the Associated Press. WINTER PARK, February 15— Establishment of a department for the “study of evil” with Mrs. Corra Harris, the novelist, as instructor, has been an- nounced by Dr. Hamilton Holt, president of Rollins College. Mrs. Harris will deliver a series of lec~ tures to a group of advanced students. “The course,” Dr. Holt said, “will not take up the practice of evil, but rather the histosy and pl of it as com- pared to virtue and it ikely that the effects o;:xl!_ upon history and life will n airplane crash here last night. The |be discut plane sidesl) and fell 25 e pped feet to h “Evil uman one of the oldest classics of ure,” Mrs. Harris said in dis- Al cussing the study, “and it is.usually taught by people morally illiterate and mentally corrupt when it should be an important part of the education of youth, taught as a classic, carefully analyzed and defined with reference to rnpnnn' adolescent people for dealing ntelligently rather than emotionally or weakly with instincts not merely of the body. but of the mind. “The sophisticated youngsters,” she continued, “proves that he is unsophis- ticated by his insistence that he is sophisticated. A young man who is really wicked takes an entirely different attitude. He pretends to the best of his ability that he is innocent and to be found out is the last thing he wants to pen.” ‘ wife in an automobile accident, also filed against Mancravie. STORM WARNING ISSUED. Small Craft Cautioned From Texas to Florida. NEW ORLEANS, February 15 . ‘The United States Weather Bureau here today issued the following storm “Smal_cratt warnings “Small craft wa played 10:30 a.m., Port Artht to Carral