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A— COVLE SEORES LS OF SOFTCOAL HERE Representative Blames Hood of Bureau of Mines in urging Anthracite. (Continued From Pirst Page.) line. ‘There is also no doubt in my mind that this same commission would just as effectively ~eayired that Mr. Hood, of smoky proclivties, cease his emanations from Government owned and operated chimneys. iack of Supply. “Mr. Hood has at times alleged that there was not available a uniform and steady supply of anthracite, and has accordingly recommended changes to oil and the more smoky bituminous coal. That these allegations are. in the main, without foundation, I think nobody will deny. There have oc- casionally in the past been times of scarcity when reserves were low and fears ran high, and yet this has hap- pened n the case of practically every commodity at one time or another in the economnic history of the country.” Beauty of Former City. *“As T knew Washington, the city, in earlier, quiet days, which Mark Sullivan depicts in his delightful book, ‘Our Times,” Goyle said. “it was pre- eminently a city which all the world admired for its beautiful tree-bordered treets and avenues and the fair blue sky of heaven, which was never obscured by smoke. Today. the mechanical im- provements that one might nate have en extended miles in every direction HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, {MABEL NORMAND DIES SMILING, Tuberculosis Kills Star Who Made Millions Laugh by Her Antics. Actress’ Fade After Being Involved in Taylor Murder. By th: Associated Press. ONROVIA, Calif., February 24.— Mabel Normand is dead. The elfin film comedienne, who took her final cue from the Great Di- rector early yesterday morning, went into the fade-out as she entered the prologue—smiling. Her private secretary and closest friend, Mrs. Julia Benson, who was with her until the last, told how the girl who has made millions laugh faced the end of the picture in those quiet hours before dawn. “A few minutes before the end came,” Mrs. Benson said, “Mabel reached over, took my hand and asked me to pray with her. I did as she requested, and as I leaned over and whispered into her ear, she smiled and closed her eyes as if to go to sleep. A momant later the end came.” Transfusions Fail. ‘The passing of Miss Normand, whose colorful 35 years were as full of tragedy and unhappiness as her pictures were full of gayety and laughter, was not wholly unexpected. She became {1l in December, 1928, with an ailment which developed into tuberculosis. Blood transfusions recently gave her temporary strength, but soon there- after she began to sink. * * * unfortunately, along with the trees and streams of another day has Miss Normand’s husband, Lew Cody, film actor, to whom she was married in gone aiso that pure, clear airof another | November, 1926, was told of her death day, that so entirely. distinguished | by Norman Kerry at the conclusion of ‘Washingtonn from any industrial city |2 birthday party in.Cody’s honor at which we of Pennsylvania know. “What is the cost of dirty,- smoky the Kerry home. Funeral arrangements have been ten- alr as compared with_the pure, clean | tatively set for Friday morning at the air of fhe original hills and valleys? | Church of the Good Shepherd, with An attempt to count the cost of an: burial in Calvary Cemetery. Definite item that is said to be a part of civil- | arrangements, however, await the arri- ization's progress is.almost an impos-val of Miss Normand's mother, Mrs. sibility, but to count.the waste that is Mary Normand; a brother, Claude Nor- inyolved is not so entirely impossible, | mand, jr., and a sister, Gladys Nor- and after all. if any item be costly, our question shoul be, not how much, but is it worth the cost? has been put into the air of Washing- ton - worth the cost? If not, why not discontinue it? - “In beginning to count its cost, we find it recognized that every black- smudge from burning fuel put into the air 1s in itself a sign of wasted heat through imperfect combustion. We find that the cost but begins at this point, and after that particle of smoke drifts on to help obscure the sky, it lands in my lungs, or on your coat collar, or on the housewife’s muslin curtains, or through the window to the damask chairs be- yond, or into the corners and nooks of marble frieze and pillar, smudging and blackening beauties that of a right * ought to be Washington's heritage, * * * Anthracite Privately Used. “The people of the District of Co- Jumbia, whose pride in this city is very real and always present, those house- holders very largely use anthracite and do not add at all to the smoke nuisance. It is a fact that in burning anthra- cite, it is practically impossible for any one to make smoke. In burning bitu- minous, even of the best grades, it re- quires considerable care and attention and a very real intelligence to prevent some smoke escaping from the chim- . mey. In burning oil, not even the most intelligent and continuous care can Jprevent a very considerable amount of smoke escaping from the chimney. “Why should it happen that in the District of Columbia it should be the operators of certain hotels, apartments and office buildings and the Federal nt buildings who are the most ‘and flagrant offenders against decency, and in fact against all lJaws made by the Congress on this subject of Smoke. * * * “‘Secretary Wilbur of the Interior De- partment, whose sound economic argu- ment in favor of wise conservation has appealed to all people, has indicated as an economic crime the use of fuel ofl for the generation of steam. If-this be a true label, then those responsible for its installation in the State, War and Navy Building are certainly guilty of the crime. Fuel ofl should be used in its most effective manner, and that cer- tainly is not for burning it to generate steam from its heat * ¢ *, Ordinance Against Home. “For many years in the District of Columbia there has been an opdinance on the statute books prohibiting any house holder from causing black smoke to be emitted from his chiminey. The biggest householder of all in the Dis- trict, fhe Federal Government itself, is the worst offender of all against that statute. We see in this statute a ca of what happens by nullification. Nul- lification, after all, means the thtowing off of all restraints and the excesses. the orgies of smoke which: have followed the throwing off of all restraint through nuilification’ of the smoke ordinance are dafly a horrible example-for the people of the District of Columbia. “Here in Washington, and in the Middle Atlantic and the New England States, we lie, from a traffic point of view, in an area which has been more blessed through the close proximity of a wonderful fuel than has any other area of the world's surface perhaps. In Eastern Pennsylvania, in a very small area, due to a strange geologichl happening of an earlier age, we find those rich deposits of anthracite, whose presence was noted in the little red geography of your school days. Out of the ground in that area has come in the last hundred years a flow of the most perfect household fuel that ex- ists on this planet. “Nowhere else has there been any such industrial - development for the benefit of mankind, and nowhere else is there found in this land an anthra- cite coal of anything like its wonderful quality.” Representative Brumm of Pottsville interrupted Coyle to announce that he had recently changed_apartments be- cause of the ‘smoke prevailing in the district where he resided. “This nuis- mvcdp Brumm said, “ought to he reme- died.” Coyle said that <n the anthracite flelds of Pzxusyivania there existed “a .ra of good will and understand- g” 2s a result of the efforts of Presi- dent Hoover when he was Secretary of Commerce and that a steady flow of anthracite coal could be produced to supply the District of Columbia. ‘The Perpsylvanian said that the pres- ent century probably would see the ex- haustion of the natural oil and gas re- sources and urged that *he use of an- thracite would delay thay time. Use of bituminous coal or prepared sizes of bituminous which might be classed as semi-bituminous coal, by the Government in Washington is strictly a matter of economy, according to offi- cials of the Bureau of Mines. Dr. Hood had little to say on the attack leveled against him by Representative ~Coyle, Geclaring that it involves a matter of bureau policy and one whish to. change would involse expenditure of ~many Bundreds of thousands of dollars. He i8 the chief of the technological branch of the bureau. As an instance of what a change to use of anthracite coal would mean, Dr. Hood quoted prices of anthracite and bituminous, coal at the mines. = Anthracite, which is produced only in Pennsylvania, costs about $8.50 at the mines, he said, while bituminous costs about $2.25 at the mines. To these costs must be added to the freight rate of $2.G6 to the District of Columbi Is the smoke that | O! mand, from Staten Island, N. Y. w%‘l come by airplane from Columbus, 0. Her father, Claude Normand, sr., died a few days ago in Staten Island. Involved in Taylor Murder. A murder, a shooting and an aliena- tion of affections suit brought the first shadows into Miss Normand's life. February 2; 1922, disclosed the mur- shadow. of the event cast itself over Fame Began to| CLOSING TRAGIC CAREER AT 35 MABEL NORMAND. the life of Mabel Normand as the curve of her screen success veered sharply downward. She had called at Taylor's home to borrow a book. A few hours later the director's body was found. Miss Nor- mand was the last person to see Tay- lor alive, and it is yet to be learned who killed him. In 1923 Courtland S. Dines, a young Denver millionaire, and Miss Normand were at A party at the home of Edna Purviance, screen actress, when Miss Normand's chauffeur came there on an errand. ~ While there the chauffeur shot and wounded Dines. The motive was never satisfactorily explained, al- though the driver was acquitted. Events Cost Her Spirit. About a year later Miss Normand was brought into the divorce complaint of Mrs. Georgia W. Church against Nor- man W. Church. Miss Normand re- taliated with a complaint charging libel, and asked half a million dollars dam- ages. The divorce complaint later was withdrawn. . This serfes of unfortunate events so hurt and humiliated Miss Normand that she lost much of her verve and sparkle. / Still, Hollywood's great and near-great gathered at her home, as always, to listen to her wit and laughter, Miss Normand was born in Boston November 10, 1894, and her family moved to Staten Island when she was uite young. She was the tomboy of the neighborhood and one of her youth- ful playmates was Louis Coti, now Lew Cody, to whom she was married at 3 o'clock one morning after a gay party. Miss Normand at 14 for ar- tists and modeled clothes. In 1910 she started in motion pictures at the Vita- the |graph Studio, in New York, acting a small role as & diving girl. BYRD NEARS EDGE OF ROSS SEA PACK Sea Is Calm Following Rough Voyage of First Two Days From- Barrier. By RUSSEL OWEN. By Radio to The Star and the New York Times. ON BOARD THE BARK CITY OF NEW YORK, IN ROSS SEA, February 24—The City of New York, carrying Admiral Byrd and the members of his expedition, is making five to six knots the Ross Sea toward the ice pack, which should be reached tomor- row. The ship's position at noon today (we skipped a day when crossing the 180th meridian) is about latitude 72.30 degrees south, longitude 178 degrees east. The sea is calm and there is a light favorable wind. For three days the ship held one of the most seasick expeditions that ever put‘to sea. Only four or five were im- mune. There was a lolloping head sea the first two days after leaving the Barrier thl{ made the City of New York quite lively, at least it seemed so to those who had not been on ship for a year. But, fortunately, the gale which drove the ship so far to the west on its southern passage had blown itself out, and the passage so far has been surprisingly comfortable. It is quite warm today also, only 28 degrees above zero, Fahrenheit, and the re- maining ice on the ship is melting. Inasmuch ‘'as the ship's position at noon of the previous day was latitude 74.50 degrees south, longitude 178 de- grees east, she has moved northward about 120 miles further, making her ;:;mt! 384 miles northwest of Discovery et. Copyright, 1930, by the New York Times Co. and_the St Louis Post-Dispatch. All rights for publication reserved throughout the world. SENATORS TO SCAN RECORD OF THACHER Nomination of Sqlicitor Gemeral Referred to Judiciary Sub- Committee. By the Assoclated Press. ‘The nomination of Judge Thomas D. Thacher of New York to be solicitor general was referred to a subcommittee today by the Senate judiciary commit- tee for investigation of his relations to public utilities. Chairman Norris named a subcom- mittee, including Senators Waterman, Colorado; and ‘Stetwer, Oregon, Repub- licans, and Overman, Democrat, North Carolina, to consider the Thacher nomination. Senator Norris himself is particularly interested in Thacher's qualifications, prove a recommendation to change the heat producing plants of the Govern- ment buildings in Washington to per- mit use of anthracite, when they now are equipped to use bituminous, semi- bituminous coal or fuel oil. “And I doubt whether if this expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars were approved, the bureau would permit the continuing expenditure of more thousands of doflars which would represent the difference between the cost of bituminous and anthracite coal,” one official sald. “Inasmuch as dollar economy is the byword, it is up to us to save where we can. The sav- ings achieved by use of bituminous coal amount to considerable money over that which would have to be spent for an- thracite.” - Nearly a million tons of coal is burned by the Government in the vari- ous public structures here. Most of it is handled through the Government Fuel Yard, a purchasing and distribut- ing organization, of which George 8. Pope is the head. The National Commission of Fine Arts many times has protested against destruction to public bullding and works of art by smoke and acid which results from use of what it deems im- proper fuels, ‘The Mines Bureau claims that only a very few public buildiny which would make bituminous cost equipped change in heating equipment wi de little less than $5 a ton, while anthra- | nearly two decades ago coincident with eite would cost a little moré than $11|the increase in the price of anthracite ton. L] L. oal. Officials of the Bureau of Mines doubt fn public buildings in Most of the bituminous coal used ‘Washington is whether the Budget Bureau would ap- said to come from West Virginia. A Al right foot of Orv CHILDREN ATTEND SCHOOL OPENING IN DARK HOLLOW (Continued From Pirst Page.) rive. Grandmother Burraker walked nearly two miles to the school building, despite her 71 years. The children ranged in age from 6 to 16 years, and all of them were en- thusiastic over beginning school. Nine-year-old George was the most talkative. He said he liked the radio that Mr. Hoovs)g has installed here, particularly Amos ‘n’ Andy. He sald the funniest thing he had heard over it was a mule heehawing. He likes the music, too, particularly “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny. The principal families represented were the Burrakers, the Weaklys and the Hurts, ‘The boys dressed in overalls, and all the little girls wore their best. Ray Burraker had on a neat gray suit with a bow tie. His shoes were neatly shined. He was free with in- formation and very affable on all but one subject. To the question whether he liked his teacher, he replied, “That is none of your business.” ‘The children at first were a little timid in the face of the many camera men on hand. Upon the first approach of strangers they ran to the school house to seek the protection of Miss Christine Vest, the teacher. Soon realiz- ing the strangers were friendly, they began to approach in twos and threes. Girl Given First Compact. Little Virginia Burraker was given a compact by one of the girl reporters. Only 5 years old, with long, curly hair, she immediately began to show a de- cidedly feminine interest in its contents. Probably the quaintest dressed little girl was Celia Burraker, 11 years old, the only one of the feminine contingent to wear a hat. It was of orangy color with morning glories around it. She trudged nearly 2 miles, bringing a smaller brother. Miss Vest’s school room was taste- fully arranged with a fresh vase of jonquils on the desk and books about I the room. these were “Red Riding Hood"” “Beauty and the Beast.” There is a big open fireplace in the room as well as a heater. There also are blackboards and other equipment that would do credit to a school any- where, Miss Vest said she did not intend to do much with the children today on account of the natural excitement caused by so many strangers. She hopes soon to be able to study them and map out & course of instruction. ‘The majority of them have never been to. school and only a few have had instruction at home. She is expecting more pupils later, She also hopes to have a Sunday school class. ‘The hours of school will be governed largely by sun time and as the days get longer school will open earlier. For the next few weeks the opening time will be at 8:45 and school will continue until about 3:30 in the afternoon. There will be an hour for lunch and two Tecesses, Most of the children will bring their lunches, as they have considerable dis- tances to go and all of them walk to school. ong and Brings Volley Ball. Miss Vest has brought a volley ball and a basket ball along for sport dur- . Later on she expects to add other paraphernalia. Miss Vest is a graduate of Berea College, in Kentucky. 30 HURT AS 4 TRAINS FIGURE IN FOG CRASH | Several Hundred Workers on Way to Plant of Western Electric, Baltimore, Escape. By the Assoctated Press. BALTIMORE, February 24.—A col- lision involving four two-car trolley trains of the United Railways, carrying several hundred workers to the Point Breeze plant of the Western Electric Co., injured more than 30 persons to- day, some of them seriously. When the first train stopped for pas- sengers three trains following it in a fog collided, telescoping the trailer of the third and front car of the fourth train. The most serlously injured were n: these_cars, Louis Helm, passenger, had both legs amputated; Samuel Ruby, motorman of the last train, lost ,ome leg, as did Thomas Carney, passenger, and the le Faulkner, another passenger, was amputated. - Walter Dawes, who died recently, was town clerk of Rye, England, for 42 years TRAIN KILLS WOMAN SITTING IN' AUTO Mrs. Florence Ames Shinn’s Car Struck at Railroad Crossing. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. WOODSIDE, Md., February 24.— While awaiting help in removing a stalled automobile in which she had been riding, Mrs. Florence Ames Shinn, 55 years of age, 200 Shepherd street, Chevy Chase, Md., was instantly killed early yesterday when the machine was struck by a Baltimore & Ohio train at the Fenwick lane grade crossing here. T. C. Stockdale of Clarendon. Va., had been driving the car, and had gone to a nearby house to summon help. The body was removed to Pumph- rey’s undertaking establishment, in Rockville, pending investigation. Inquest Unnecessary. State's Attorney Robert Peter, jir., after listening to the report of the investigation given by Montgomery County Policeman Charles T. Barnes of the northern district precinct, de- cided that it was an unavoidable accident, and deemed an inquest un- necessary. The body of Mrs. Shinn, according to the police investigation, was found 188 feet from the point where the car had been resting, and the wreckage of the car was carried for a distance of 400 feet, having been dragged along on the front of the engine, tearing up railroad ties as it went, until the train was brought to a standstill. A heavy fog hung over the section early Sun- day morning. The train, a deadhead, making only 35 miles an_ hour, as this section of track is a slow-speed area owing to the construction of the new viaduct to carry the east-west highway under the raiiroad tracks. The train was in charge of Conductor L. J. Boody, 1202 North Decker street, B timore, Md., and the engineer was A. L. Waltz, 1615 Covington street, Balti- more, according to the police. Met at Friend's Home. Stockdale, the police said he informed them, left an apartment in the 4400 block of Fourteenth street shortly after midnight to go to Chevy Chase to take Mrs. Shinn home. He said he met her at his friend’s house. He proceeded out Georgia avenue and became lost. Upon reaching Silver Spring he asked a filling station employe how to get to Chevy Chase, and the latter directed him to a road some distance up, but he turned into Fenwick lane, a short distance from the station, belleving that was the direction given. He crossed the railroad tracks at Fenwick lane, which is a pri- vate crossing, the road leading to an estate the entrance to which is on the west side of the railroad right of way. ‘When he got into the yard of the home, he said, he found it was a blind road. Turning around he retraced his way, and in the heavy fog got off the road where it crosses the tracks. The cross- ing is just wide enough for one vehicle. The right wheels went down alongside the outer rail and the drive shaft rest- ed on the rail. After trying to extricate the car himself, he told the police, and realizing that it was futile, as he could not get traction, he decided to summon help, telling Mrs. Shinn, he said, to stay out. of the car. He went to a nearby residence and awakened William Hol- mead, on Fenwick lane, and the latter dressed and got his automobile and went to the crossing. Just as they ar- rived the train was pming. Sergt. Guy Jones, in charge of the northern district police station, took charge at the scene of the wreck, and conducted an_ investigation together with Corpl. D. L. Snyder and Patrolman Barnes. It was the opinion of the police that after Stockdale left the scene to summon aid, that Mrs. S8hinn sat down to rest on the right running board of the car, which was on the opposite side from which the traln came on the south-bound track. Her body was badly mangled. She was pronounced dead by Dr. G. A. Scully of Silver Spring. Mrs. Shinn, who formerly lived In Washington and only recently moved to Chevy Chase, was a widow, according to a son, Clark R. Shinn, of Chevy Chase, who, together with Ralph A. Shinn, another son, survive her. The latter is a traveling salesman for a mxtm firm, and is in North Caro- 8. SOVIET TO ‘BORROW’ WORKERS' SALARIES Subscription of Month's Pay to In- dustrialization Loan Urged in Factories. By Cable to The 8t 1 ¢ ST st nt Ghjereo Datiy MOSCOW, U. 8. 8. R., February 24.— Soviet resources for building e in< dustries and collectivizing agriculture without foreign capital are safeguarded by & new decree that probably is with- out precedent. The Soviet Union places such strin- gent restrictions upon trading in or borrowing upon internal loans for a total of 1,702,700,000 rubles (aboht $851,350,000) that it is virtually certain that this enormous sum will be available for socialistic building without the bur- den of repurchase for years to come. Moreover, propagant already has been launched in the factories for addi- tional worker subscriptions to the loan, so the Soviet Union soon probably will have an excess of 2,000,000,000 rublds ($1,000,000,000) for capital building. Most citizens owe four more monthly instalments on the last loan, but already factory meetings ‘are reported to be urging subscriptions of a month's salary to the new loan. ‘The newest decree merges the three industrialization loans of 1927, 1928 and 1929, and the agricultural improvement loan of 1928 into one new loan known as the “five years in four.” " THREE DIE AS AIRPLANE SIDE-SLIPS INTO WATER Experimental Flight Over Bis- cayne Bay With Prospective Purchaser Ends in Tragedy. By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Fla., February 24.—Three men are dead as the result of the crash of a Miami-made airplane on an ex- perimental flight, The plane, a flying boat, side-slipped at a 200-foot altitude and fell into Bis- cayne Bay as it was being demonstrated yesterday to a prospective purchaser. The dead are: Merritt 8. Carlton, Miami Bes jeweler and former resident of Water- m, N. Y.; Frank J. Somers, chief engineer of the bullder company, and ‘Thomas B. Ward, pllot. The latter two were residents of Miami. Official investigation was underway today. ¥ DUCHESS FATALLY HURT. Succumbs With Pilot in Hospital After Plane ¥all. NAPLES, February 24 (#).—The Duchess Flammetta Carafa D'Andra, with the pilot, Castaldo, died today in a hospital here after a crash in the plane RO-5 at C 0 Airdrome. a height of about They were flyin u?n'tm when ".n plane went into & p! o in t oo D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 13sd. WRECKAGE STREWN ALONG TRACKS IN FATAL ACCIDENT Va., where it was thrown to the side of ‘Woodside, Md., yesterday. The engine Lower right: Mrs. Florence Ames instantly killed. BY HAROLD BURTON. Associated Press Staff Writer. KENOSHA, Wis, February 24—A tragedy in the darkness and mud of a railroad ditch had its last act today in the wards of two Kenosha hospitals, where more than 50 persons sought to forget in sleep the horror of last night's Hreck on the North.Shore interurban ne. Most of them were too dazed by the accident to tell in detail what happened. From a few, however, came a story of how they had been plunged from con- versation or reading into pandemonium. Bodies blocked the way to freedom for some passengers. Others were hemmed by the twisted mass of chairs and fixtures. Through the groaning of in- Jjured and the shouting of rescuers, the sirens of ambulances could be heard as l.h: police and the hospitals swung into action. Eight feet above the wreckage of the interurban cars the track was twisted into a zig-zag pattern. The freight train of a parallel track had been de- ralled also, and from two of its cars was a trickle of a flour mingling with th:":md and dyeing the ground a dirty white. Red flares and automobile headlights picked out the arms or legs of passen- fi“ who had been twisted or caught ito the wreckage. Upper: One section of the demolished auto of T. C. Stockdale, Clarendon, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks at of the automobile was torn out of the car, and may be seen alongside the tracks. Lower: Another part of the debris which was left 100 feet farther down the track, consisting mostly of the interior of the coupe. Shinn of Chevy Chase, Md., who was | WRECK HORRORS ARE RELATED BY SURVIVORS IN HOSPITALS Chicagoan Describes Vain Struggles to Free Fiancee, Trapped Under Inter- urban Coach, Where She Died. Lee Paxton, Chicago, was riding with his flancee, Miss Betty Shema, Chicago. The train, he sald, was traveling about into the ditch, and when he looked for Miss Shema she was gone. e rescue parties arrived, with the flares, he said: “I looked about and saw her in the mud. Her foot was sticking up. She had been thrown through the wii- dow and part of the car rested on her. “I tried to pull her free,” he sald, “but I could not. Then they came and took me away.” Later he learned she had died. One survivor, Lewis Kresinski, Chi- el&o who was riding in the third car, said: ‘There was & dreadful crash. People were thrown from their seats. Some started to scream and others groaned. Our car was turned over on its side, an{ we were able to s{et out of the door. Mrs. Albert Skocznski, another pas« senger in the third coach, said the woman seated in front of her fainted and was carried out by several men. “Passengers in the other cars told me they saw people killed, lying about on the floor of the car,” she said. She was one of the few of the 328 passengers to escape without a bruise. HUGHES DONS ROBE AS CHIEF JUSTICE AFTER INDUCTION (Continued From First Page.) returned, and his countenance seemed to have lost much of the austerity of earlier years. But his broad shoulders still had the carrjage of youth, and his manner the quickness and spontancity of many who are his juniors. Mr. Hughes put on the official long black robes of the Court before the first oath was administered. Justice Holmes, the ranking justice, who will be 89 next month, officiated while the other members of the Court formed a silent circle about. This was the oath: “I, Charles Evans Hughes, do sol- emnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any men- tal reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully dis- charge the duties of the office which am_about to enter. So help me God.” No Bible was used in any phase of the induction into office, Chief Justice Hughes, when conduct- ed to his seat shook hands with Jus- tice Holmes on his right, and bowed to the justices on that side of the bench. e n turned to his left, shook hands with Justice Van Devanterand bowed to _the others. Then he bowed to the bar and spec- tators, the entire company was seated, and the court proceeded to the an- nouncement of opinions. Some cases brought before the court for argument may see Mr. Hughes' son, Charles Evans Hughes, jr., pleading the 'h | Government side as Solicitor General cases argued by his son. The latter has resigned and a successor, Judge ‘Thatcher of New York, has been named, but not confirmed, and young Hughes will probably continue the duties of of- fice until his successor takes the oath. ‘The new Chief Justice also will de- cline to take part in an important and controversial case to be brought before the court on: March 12, that of the Great Lakes States to stop diversion of water from Lake Michigan by the Chi- sanitary district. r. Hughes acted as special master in the. case, and the action of the court will be on a re) rt he made, to which both sides has 'd exdeptions, of the United States: Mr. Hughes is ‘exn:u( to decline to participate in TSI ‘The Roasevelt Memorial Association of New York claims to have a member- ship of 1,000,000, . ¢ BORDER PATROLMAN KILLS RUM RUNNER U. S. Officer Is Beaten About the Head in Desperate Fight With Mexican. By the Associated Pro EL PASO, Tex., February 24.—The second rum running fracas within two weeks here ended in the death yester- day of a Mexican in a hand-to-hand fight with a United States border patrol guard. The guard was badly beaten about the head by the Mexican, who had waded across the Rio Grande with a sack of bottled liquor and encountered the officer as he stepped on American soil. ‘The fight took place a short distance from the intérnational bridge connect- ing El Paso and Juarez. The patrol- man, who had watched the movements of the Mexican from dense undergrowth along the river bank, commanded the smuggler to halt. ‘The Mexican whipped out a pistol, but his shot went wild when the officer kicked him on the wrist. {JONES ABLE TO LEAVE LONDON WEDNESDAY Admiral Is Ordered Home From Naval Conference Because of Health. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 24—Rear Ad- miral Hilary P. Jones, naval expert with the American delegation, who has been ordered home because of ill-health, will be able to leave on the Berengaria ‘Wednesday- There had been some doubt as to whether his condition would permit his being moved at this time, but after a consultation between Dr- M. E. Higgins, naval physician and Dr. J. J. Conybare, -m]:lfn, 1t was decided the admiral Adm{r:l Jones will be accompanied by Mrs. Jones, Miss Anne Worrell, who has been his stenographer for many years, and Sergt. John Mason of the Marine Corps, as orderly. Prime Minister Macdonald this morn=- miunnd-zmmmm-mwm- Q about him. 60 miles an hour when suddenly there | was a crash—the car whirled dizzily Star Staft Photos. [11 KILLED, 100 HURT WHEN AUTO DERAILS 5-CAR TRAIN IN MUD (Continued From First Page.) Goggin, 4727 Malden avenue, Chicago; Miss Betty Shema, 7614 Essex avenue, Chicago; Miss Evelyn Metzger, 1619 Wilson avenue, Chicago; Ruth¥Reibe, 25, Milwaukee; Alexa Steinhorst, 29, teacher, Kenosha Schools. ‘There were 59 men, women and chil- dren under treatment at two Kenosha hospitals early today. Their injuries included broken arms, legs and ribs, skull fractures, internal injuries and bruises. The' condition of at least 10 was pronounced critical. At least 50 other passengers of the train were treated at the hospitals and then released. A steady rain hampered work of wrecking crews, but by 10 o'clock the two rear coaches of the wrecked pas- senger train had been hoisted out of the muddy ditch. A more difficult task lay ahead in raising the other three coaches and workers said it still was possible they would find additional vic- tims beneath the wreckage. It was the first time in 10 years that a passenger on the North Shore line had met death in an accident, the com- pany said. The line has been awarded national recognition both for speed and safety in recent years. The Buday automobile was traveling on route 43, northbound, when the pas- senger train bore down along the straightaway stretch. The train struck the car squarely, just as the 16-car freight train was approaching from the south. The machine was momentarily wedged between the two trains before the passenger train left the ralls. Several freight cars were deralled, but they remained upright. Darkness Adds to Horror. First reports that the freight caught fire were incorrect. Actually the horror of the scene was the greater because of the darkness, the scores of injured frantically crying for help and fumbling their way out of the debris. Automobiles passing _on the well- traveled highway were first to give aid. The injured were placed in the ma- chines and taken to the Kenosha and St. Catherine’s hospitals. Several minutes later ambulances, doctors and nurses were at work. Several of the dead were burled in the debris of the first car, and it was necessary to burn through the steel coach to remove their bodies. Heavier Load Than Usual. The train was carrying an unusually heavy load, due to the fact that many Chicagoans were returning from the double holiday in Wisconsin. The miracle, as witnesses called it, of the five passenger cars remain! upright in the ditch was credited wit having prevented a much heavier loss of life. rallel the railroad WAR OVER RELIG VISIONED BY $08 Protests Against Alleged R sian Persecution Cause Furor in Moscpw. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, February 24.-Efforts of various religious agencies \to prevent persecution of religious elements in Soviet Russia today were made the basis by the Soviet press and politiclans for a loud cry of war. Appearing coinci- dentally with celebration of ‘the twelfth anniversary of the founding of the red army, the pro-religioh movement aroused a considerable furof. Communist papers and (Jeaders pealed to the country to appeared to entertain ge; the Soviet’s European nejghbors intend, in concert, to inaugurs either eco- nomic measures agains§ their govern- ment or a direct militafy attack. Charge Organized @pposition, “All the forces of refction through- out the world are mobiljed against the Soviet Union, which is @ing full speed ahead toward Soclalism{” Izvestia de- clared editorially, Pope, the | Archbishop of Canterbuly, the French police, the English die- , Soclalists and Fascists, foreign qhunterfeiters of Soviet money, and the| German bour- geoisie have united intojone holy union to launch new bandit attacks upon our country. “But the rulers of capitalistic Eu- rope forget they are dancing the ‘Can- can’ on a barrel of powder. We will remain firm and calm, watching this dance of dying cap'talism. In our country all workers and peasants are convinced of the final results of the struggle between Bolshevism and capi- talism.” More Churel Despite the campaign abroad against the Soviet governmept, Soviet !u{l’lnrl- ties in different part$ of the union have closed & number of gdditional churches, synagogues and m es. These, it was ddclared, were shut :&ofl Dpetition of th¢ workers and peas- Tass dispatches réported that Soviet officials closed th: pocl'n‘ll’cl'le!, three le and one Polish , capital of the rovince of Kazakstan, while in Kara- . | bribery case last gudnkhkent the authorities closed 13 mosques. Ecclesiastical objects removed from the latter, including rich rugs and mosaics, were sold and the money con- verted into American tractors for the nexngg;::ctlve farmis, T Tass dispatch said that Tyler, Central Rusg‘t:. the Soviet Dfl}E olals decided to close a local synagogue and to convert it ihto a club “upon the insistent demand of laboring Jews.” DOHENY TRIAL PLANS MOVING WITH UNUSUAL JURY,; PRECAUTIONS (Continued | tnm Pirst ) g\‘a& Imm by the District Supreme At the office| of Prank J. Hogan, Doheny's co , it was stated toda; that the defens¢ is ready to go ah with the trial. | The Government has nou’ht no_ continuance of the case, Assistant District Attorney Arthur W. Fihelly declared today in the absence from the city of Pomerene and Roberts, | the special counsel charged with pros- ecutions in the oil lease cases. Doheny wept when Fall, pected with him in the West many Years ago, was found guilty in the October. He wept for friend he has known for many. years, nd it will be upon’ this friendshi) is indicated, that the oil man will a great deal of the defense in his com- ing_trial. Doheny claims the $100,000 involved in the case upon which Fall was con- victed, was a loan to an old friend and had nothing to do with the naval oil | reserve leases which he secured while Fall was Secretary of the Interior. This friendship of two young prospectors of the old West is expected to form a large gumon of the evidence presented the istrict Supreme Court in Doheny’s defense. To back up the claim that the note was a loan outside any of the oll transactions, he has a certificate for & third interest in Fall anch in New Mexico, and a transaction in which Fall's 1and was sold at auction to.satisty 8 debt owed by Fall to Doheny. The ranch brought $132,461.81 in_this sale, and it was bought up by Doheny to protect his interests. “Man With Midas Touch.” Edward L. Doheny has been described as a man with a Midas touch. At 15 he set out to make his fortung in the West. His first stake came from the purchase of wild horses and breaking them, sell- ing them for much more than he paid and using the experience he thus gained to become a jockey. He became well I{maw)rlx o‘n n:‘ :Veecern né:e tracks be- ore he turned to prospecting. | He struck gold in' Arizona_shortly after he started prospecting. Silver in New Mexico was his next find. Then he started importing fluxing frons into the United States from Mexico, always making big money, always looking for new fields for profit, but seldom holding on to the profits in those days. Twenty years of lucky prospecting for ‘matals had made Doheny a rich man many times, but almost as many times he had mms poor again through business S, " His best find came in Los Angeles. He struck ofl, and upon those first be- ginnings in the ofl industry been built the vast Doheny fortune. It is reckoned among the biggest single fore tunes in the United States. R Last of Scandal Prineipali” This is the last of the principils in the ofl scandals which have run ‘their course of civil litigation and criminal prosecution through the past six years, at times rocking the country’ with startling developments. He is the: only member of the trio about whom the oll scandals have centered who so far has gone unpunished. Sinclair has gone to jall and served his sentences, totaling nine months in all, and Fall stands convicted, though free, await- ing decision on his appeal. A lot of the evidence which helped convict Fall in ibery case will not be admissable in thé Doheny case. For this reason many believe Deheny h’:ll nh::tur defense for his trial than 1 3 ‘Through his wi attorney, dely Hom, Doheny will hm Tesource at command to ve the charge of the Government. . BAND CONCERT. By the United State Marine Band, ‘Two highways rightofway and within & few minutes following the wreck, the light of scores of headlights were zpom the wreckage. C. W. Hall of Chicago, motorman of the passenger train, saved his life jumping. He is in a hospital with bof legs broken. The front of the car from which he jumped was demolished. —— 35 Garment Workers Arrested. BOSTON, February 24 (#).—Thirty- five striking garment workers on picket duty here today were arres for blocking lestrian traffic _on Knee- land street in front of a t yhere ",h strike hukbeen in prog: r an & week. The arrests ma without this evening at the auditorium, Marin Barracks. Ta) B leads Arthur 8. Witcomb, second leader. March, “Fairest of the Fair”... Overture, R0sstan and Ludmilla’ Dance in anclent style, “La Cinquantaine” Grand scenes from “Ii Valse Lente, “La Lettre de IMIIA; “Angel's Serenade” .. Fani i Marines' hymn, “The Halla of Monte- zuma.’ “The Star Spangled Banner.” Argentina exported 7,300,000 tons wm:'tmhnm s ”