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y; lowest, report showers. 'h:r-rnhnu—-mtm 49 at 5 pm. yeste: 29 at 7 a.m. yesterda: Full page 7. y. No. NAVAL CONERENCE RESTSONDONAL TALK WITH TARDE French Premier Reaches Lon- don for Parley Today With British Leader. 1,304—No. 31,365. AIRCRAFT CARRIERS PROVIDE PROBLEM Question of Limitation of Craft Under 10,000 Tons Creates Sharp Divisions. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 15.—The fate of Entered as second class matte post office, Washington, D. C. Dispatches Indicate He Will Accept Post Left by McCoy. Senators Goff and Hatfield| and Attorney General Back Candidate. Haymond Maxwell, associate justic of the West Virginia Supreme Cour. has been offered the post of chie. justice of the District Supreme Court, to succeed Justice Walter I. McCoy, i. was indicated last night, following the disclosure that he had conferred with the President at the White House Fri- day afternoon. A dispatch to The Star last night from Charleston declared that Judge Maxwell was considering the appoint- ment and that it was regarded as fairly certain he would accept. Maxwell Declines to Comment. First intimation that Presiden! the London Naval Conference iS €ON- | yoouer had considered Judge Maxwell sidered to be hanging on the conversa- tion of Prime Minister Macdonald and Premier Tardieu at Chequers tomorrow. The Prench premier arrived from Pearis tonight and spent the evening with M. Briand, Prench foreign min- fster, and the other French delegates. Early tomorrow he and Briand will go to the country retrest of the British prime minister for one of the most fmportant meetings of European states- melr,lo since the World War. When they come back to London tomorrow night Tardieu and Briand will carry the knowledge whether the London Con- ference has completed its work or ‘whether there is any use in the five- wer delegations staying in London the hope that France and Italy ean liquidate their naval stalemate. Accomplishments to Date. Briefly, conference accomplishments ean be listed under four broad headings: 1. Complete American, British and Japanese ent regarding naval ratios and limitaf 2. A five-power battleship holiday for five years, or until a general dis- armament conference is called at Geneva in 1935-36. 3. Humanization of submarine war- fare. 4. Settlement of a ent basis ot important techn! problems such as the compromise between global and ‘category to theories. emorrow. will tell what hope there i of adding mo?-”lédhn naval rap- tua- g of the limitation of aircraft car- riers under 10,000 tons. It was learned tonight that a sharp division exists among the delegations on this subject, with members of each aligned in three different groups. The first group desires limitation of aircraft carriers with a tonnage of less lotments. The third wants built and building | pass. cruiser aircraft carriers taken from the tonnage, so that the full Washington allotment would be available for further aircraft carrier construction. Two Take United States Tonnage. If the smaller types of carriers were faken from the Washington allotments, some American experts contend the United States would be placed in @ disadvantageous position, since much of her carrier tonnage is taken up by the Saratoga and Lexington, and lt- tle would be left under the Wi ton allotments for the latest type ol 17,000 and 18,000 ton craft. The experts found a wide divergence of opinion among the technical ad- 'visers. Another point that must be settled #t the same time relates to seaplane carriers, for which the Washington treaty did not provide. GIRL REPORTER SENT TO JAIL FOR WITHHOLDING SOURCE OF STORY 'Author of Serial on Irene Schroeder, Tried for Murder, Held in Contempt of Court. B the Associated Press. . NEW CASTLE, Pa, March 15—A #irl reporter questioned concerning a #Life of Irene Schroeder” that is run- ming serially in newspapers, today was ‘committed to jail in contempt of court when she refused to reveal the source f information in the story after being ealled to the stand in the murder trial of the woman about whom she wrote Mrs. Schroeder is charged with slay- ing a highway patrolman after a store Boldup last December. 2. Fiidchrand. presiding sy the ti . L. lebrand, p af said the only thing the court could do was send her to jail until she was i to answer. Attorneys sald it ble for her to obtain d only re- was to the State Supreme Court. time after the girl reporter had for the post, which has been vacant since Justice McCoy resigned last Fall, was obtained yesterday from a dispatch | to The Star. The dispatch, also from Charleston, said that Judge Maxwell | Youth Held in Murder of W. A. gress on March 4 next. (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) U.S. SERVICE WAGE RAISE HELD LIKELY BYPARTYLEADERS New Act or Revision of Old One Will Be Pushed Next December. This is the last of a series of ar- ticles on the proposal, now pending before President Hoover and Con- gress to revise and increase the pay schedules of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service and Coast and G Sur- vey. BY DONALD A. CRAIG. A new joint service pay act for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service and Coast and Geodetic Survey, or a measure sub- stantially amending the present act, will probably be placed on tfie program of the House and Senate leaders for enact- ment before the end of the present If there is not time to consider and pass it at this session the plan of the leaders is to have a bill all ready when the short session begins next De- cember and to push it through before the expiration of the Seventy-first Con- ‘The leaders are that some “re- adjustments” and “probably some creases” in the pay schedules for offi- cers and enl! men should be made. Leaving Details to Committee. ‘They are leaving the details to be worked out by the special joint con- gressional pay committee, recently created by a joint resolution adopted by both branches of Congress and in- structed to make an investigation and refommmd-mm “by bill or Members of the joint mey committee say they want to com) their task as soon as possible and some of them hope they may be able to do so before the present session ends. Others believe the committee cannot complete its hearings and investigations and draft a new pay bill for presentation to both Houses, fore the beginning of the short and final session of the present ngress. “We know there are inequalities in the present pay act,” sals Leader Tilson to the repre: The Star, “and that the subject will need close study. Whatever the joint committee decides on we expect “If_we are not paying these men (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) MAGAZINE MAN SLAIN. Lorenzen in New York. NEW YORK, March 15 (#).—Wil- llam Albert Lorenzen, 43, manager of the Home Reading Group, magazine publishers and distributors, was stabbed to death today in his Broadway office. Police arrested Prancis Otto Schottman, 19, employed by the firm as a sub- scription canvasser, on a charge of killing Lorenzen. Employes said the stabbing occurred in the course of an argument between Schottman and his employer. been looked up, another opportunity was given her to answer, but she again declined. Attorneys for the defense went to the jail to put the question after an informal conference Wwith Judge Hildebrand and prosecution counsel. Following Miss Resch on the stand was Sheriff Charles Wright of Mari- copa County, Ariz., where Mrs. Shroeder and W. Glenn Dague, indicted with her in the slaying of the officer, were captured a couple of weeks after the shooting. A St. Louls, Mo, policeman, Wil- liam Kiessling, was another witness during the day. e identified Mrs. Schroeder and e who was brought into court for identification, as Enons who had engaged in n e with him in St. Louls lut.JI:“' ary. The sheriff charges Mrs. Schroeder and Dague were fleeing westward from New Castle at the e of the en- counter with K was fired on when The n wi he after to | tingui he WASHINGTON, HAYMOND MAXWELL OF WEST VA. OFFERED D. C. CHIEF JUSTICESHIP JUDGE HAYMOND MAXWELL. —Harris-Ewing Photo. SENATORS T0 HEAR WICKERSHAM TALK IN CLOSED SESSION Norris Indicates Enforcement Corruption Data Will Be Given Committee. Senator George W. Norris, Repub- lican of Nebrasks, chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, announced yesterday that the meeting of his com- mittee tomorrow to hear George W. ‘Wickersham, chairman of the Law En- forcement Commission, and Willlam D. Mitchell, Attorney General, will be be- hind closed doors because of the char- acter of information expected relating to enforcement officials and conditions. It is known that the Wickersham commission has for some time been investigating prohibition enforcement and has found evidences of a break- down in certain sections of the Nation, especially in larger cities. Whether the former Attorney General will be in a position to give the Senate commit- tee definite information of in the. enforcement unit is .3"“""” known, but this is indicated by Senator Norris. Senator Norris, with Senator Willilam Borah, Republican of Idaho, and Senator Smith W. Brookhart, ub- lican of Iowa have threatened to make public evidences of alleged dereliction of duty in the enforcement unit. This development is held in abeyance pend- ing the action of the 1ufl’(“cur: com- mittee on a resolution by Senator Norris for a sweeping investigation of en- forcement. Much Depends on Testimony. Much, it is believed, will depend upon the testimony of Mr. Wickersham and Attorney General Mitchell tomorrow as to whether the committee su resolution for a general investigation. is held probable that Mr. Wicker- sham may be able to convince the ultra- dry Senators that more is to be gained from the quiet probe now under way by his commission than in an open iy Star, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION -G, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1930—134 PAGES. SOVIET MODERATES DRASTIC FARM AND CHURCH PROGRAMS Ire of Peasants Forces Mos- cow to Be More Lenient in Religious Policy. SEVERE PUNISHMENT FOR OFFICIALS DECREED Less Zeal in Agricultural Collectiv- ization Crusade Is Ordered by Leaders. | By the Associated Press. | collectivization of farms, extermination of the' rich peasants and the closing of churches have led foreign observers in Moscow to believe that a new and more moderate era in Soviet Russia is at hand. The Soviet government now appears definitely to have turned toward a less drastic campaign in bringing about its ultimate goal of Socialism and observ- ers look upon this as almost as import- ant and decisive in its consequences as the economic, political and social pol- icies instituted last year. Particularly they attribute the gov- ernment’s more lenient attitude toward the churches to resistance on the part of the peasants. Less Severity Is Ordered. A peremptory order issued last night by the central committee of the Com- munist party, which is the organ of supreme power in the Soviet Union, decrees severe punishment for over- zealous village officials who close churches without overwhelming sup- port or -ban the markets which handle products of peasants. Already the tension among the non. proletarian elements has eased. In ad dition, peasants, street vendors and small traders who vanished after the government's previous drive against private trade, are back in the streets with their slender wares. Many officials have been dismissed or are being tried for too stern measures in_ collectivizing the farms, warring on religion and exterminating the Kulak: (rich peasants), but some are protest ing strenuously. In the Vyazemsky district, Soviet of- ficials say that Joseph Stalin’s recent order prohibits force in recruiting peasants for the collective farms could not be carried out because the peasants, if they found that membership in such farms was based only on voluntary con- sent, would immediately abandon the projects. Some of the newspapers also say that the Kulaks themselves helped in mak- ing it hard for poor and middle class peasants in order to discredit the col- lective farm movement, even going so far as to bribe officials to take violent ‘measures. Many Abandoned Farms. It 1s no secret that many peasants did abandon the collective farms after finding their was no compulsion to remain. In some districts, it is revealed, the peasants were told by authorities that “he who refuses to join the collective farm is an enemy of the Soviet state, while he who does join it is a friend.” That, it is said, caused whole villages to join the movement, but when the new members saw their cows, chickens and other property confiscated for a common fund, they abandoned the project. ‘Newspapers are aiding in the search for cases where too much zeal was (Continued on Page 2, Column 5. b | GERMANS OPPOSE ORDER TO DESTROY AIRPORT Treaty Violation Regarding Ar- K\\;:stlzluon attended by large pub- city. Senator Borah has given notice that he will insist upon a stenographic record of the Wickersham-Mitchell testimony, and some of this, he holds, should be made public. A majority of the judici- ary committee is known to oppose the public investigation demanded by Sen- ators Norris, Borah and Brookhart. If, the appearance of the two dis- ished witnesses, the committee still opposes the probe, it is likel dry Senators will carry theK’ fight to the floor of the Senate, disclosing all their evidence and opening up a debate which many believe cannot be re- strained to one phase of prohibition, but must run the whole gamut of the con- troversial issue. Senator Borah opened his battle against the enforcement unit, under the (Continued on Page 3, Column 4,) TODAY’S STAR PART ©ONE—36 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page B—4. PART TWO—12 PAGES, Editorial _Section—Editorials and Edi- torial Peatures. At Community Centers—Page 5, Y. W. C. A. Notes—Page 5. Girl Scouts—Page 7. W. C. T. U. Activitles—Page 6, Army and Navy News—Page 8. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page 10. District National Guard—Page 10. PART THREE—16 PAGES, y. and Socie! PART FOUR-14 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, Screen and Music. In the Motor World—Pages 5 and 6. Praternities—Page 7. Aviation Activities—Pages 8 and 9. News of the Clubs—Page 10. Veterans of Great War—Page 11. Serial ?'Ol'y. “The Wrist Mark"— Page 12. Radio News—Pages 12 and 13. PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Sports Section. PART SIX—12 PAGES. Financial and Classified Advertising. Organized Reserves—Page 5. District of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 5. D. A. R. Activities—Page 12. PART SEVEN—24 PAGES. Magazin, # Review of New Books—] 18. Notes of Art and Artists—] 19. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 22. GRAPHIC SECTION—S8 PAGES. world Events in Pictures. Color Section—8 PAGES, Moon Mullins; Mutt and Jeff; Regllar rellelrl: lg.n;nfl Mrs.; l-m:l ?phln Annie; ; _Somebody’s Stenog; High Lights of History. that the | 870 maments Understood to Have Been Charged by France. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 15—The German foreign office today protested to France | an order by the French military com- | mander in the Palatinete for the de- struction by April 15 of all buildings on the Lachen Speyerdorf aviation unds, near Neustadt. It is understood French military men held that the existence of this airport violated the treaty provisions regarding German armaments. The place has 20 hangars, a big re- pair shop and many other facilities. The foreign office pointed out in its note that the port was ideal for further development of PFranco-German com- mercial air traffic and it expressed the hope that the French order for de- struction would be withdrawn. MOSCOW, March 15.—Sweeping new | | orders against an excess of zeal in the | * THE PRESIDENCY IS JUST ONE PROBLEM AFTER ANOTHER. LUMBER AND OIL FACEDBY SENATE {Watson Predicts Tariff Bill Will Go to Conference by Thursday. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ‘With votes on lumber and ofl knock- ing at the door, the Senate this week swings into the final round of its long fight over the tariff bill. Prediction was made last night by Senator Wat- son, Republican leader, that the bill would be passed and sent to conference by Thursday night. ‘The effort to place a duty on hides, with compensatory and protective duties on leather and boots and shoes, appears to have lost so far as the Senate is concerned. The House lifted these items from the free list, how- ever, and placed duties on them. If the Senate keeps them all on the free list as it now appears probable, the matter will have to be ironed out in conference. During the last week, the old Senate coalition, composed of Republican pro- gressives and Democrats which con- trolled the fate of the tariff bill for so many months, was hit hard, failing prevent increases in the sugar duty and to prevent levying a duty on ce- ment. It will struggle to defeat duties proposed on lumber and oil and in- creases advanced for a number of items in the bill. The lumber duty may pre- vail, its' friends insist, but the duty on ofl seems to have less support. I th lumber and ofl duties should be writ- ten into the bill, the charge of a “trade” of votes involving supporters of duties on sugar, cement, oil and lumber will be raised more loudly than ever. Debenture. ‘The reverses suffered by the coalition have given rise to the prediction that when the tariff bill comes out of con- ference it will be minus the debenture clause and that it will carry the flexible provisions of the existing tariff law, with perhaps some slight modification giving Congress a check on the Presi- dent in the matter of changing the tariff duties. The President, it has been said, is unalterably opposed to the Senate amendments doing away with the flexible provisions of the law ald of the farmers. Oddie amendment levying duties on hides, boots and shoes and leather failed. The supporters of a duty on hides and supporters of the duties on boots, shoes and leather have found it impossible to get together, and the indjcations are that in the end all of these commodities will remain on the free list in the bill as it passes the Senate. Nevertheless, efforts to adjust these differences are still under way over the week end, and some Senators are (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) FRANCIS EIGHTH FEVER VICTIM: PARROT MALADY PROBE HALTED Famous Research Worker Recently Recovered From Other lliness. Surgeon General Cumming Closes Laboratory and Orders Fumigation. Discovery yesterday of the eighth case of parrot fever among workers of the Hygienic Laboratory of "the United States Public Health Service caused Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming to order the institution closed for fumi- gation aver the week end and further research on the mysterious disease in- definitely suspended. Dr. Edward PFrancis, public health surgeon, famous as the discoverer of tularaemia, or rabbit fever, who only recently recovered from an attack of Malta, or undulant fever, on which he was the victim of parrot to the laboratory’s list yester day. His was the fourth case reported in several days among workers not engaged in the parrot fever research, which was undertaken several weeks ago when a number of cases appeared at Annapolis gfl in other parts ol'.lyfl'l:“}!el;lud States. . prompt that, even When the members of the staff now il have recovered sufficiently to return to work, further research gn parrot fever » __DR. EDWARD FRANCIS. would be postponed until a separate obuilding can be provided. Those reported ill yesterday were: Dr. H. E. Hasseltine, public health surgeon sand expert on Malta, or un- fever, who was not working rrots. Ernest L. Millar, laboratory worker. Fred Blackwell, colored, janitor of the Hygienic Laboratory. New Cases Not Serious. the new victims is danger- mxfll;mm‘,#n is believed at the Naval Hospital, where they are confined. Mrs (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) and setting up the debenture plan for | Efforts made yesterday by Senator | Walsh of Massachusetts to modify the | had parked at the curb near the Reikes | Boy Barricaded In Attic Is Seized After Police Call By the Associated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 15.—Angered because his mother reprimanded him, Jack Cautley, 12, armed himself with a shot- gun and barricaded himself in the attic of his home here today. Police with shotguns and tear bombs were rushed to the house. The boy was finally captured without bloodshed and placed in the detention home. TOBACCONIST SHOT - BY YOUNG BANDITS Pair Wait Hours in Car Near Capitol to Stage Hold-Up. Two youthful bandits, after patiently waiting for hours in a stolen automobile to | Parked, within 50 feet of the scene of |a contemplated holdup, last night robbed Max Reikes, tobacconist and | confectioner, at his shop in the base- | ment of the Congressional Apartments, | First and East Capitol streets, shot and seriously wounded the man and escaped on foot before an alarm could | be sounded. Reikes was taken to Casualty Hospi- tal, where staff physicians found he was suffering from a bullet wound in the left arm and chest, the bullet lodg- |ing within 4 inches of the heart | His condition was reported as unde- termined late last night. Man Beaten and Robbed. Meanwhile, John oads, 42, of 2451 Eighteenth street, fSund lying in the roadway of Georgia avenue, near the police he had been beaten and robbed ing to a Maryland roadhouse. The two youths who staged the hold- up at the Congressional Apartments shop about 5 o'clock yesterday after- noon and had remained at or near the scene until near the closing time of the place, at 10:30, police were told. Several residents of the section, who had noticed the pair during the evening, were able to give headquarters and ninth precinct police a description of the bandits. ‘The crime was committed just a block from the Capitol and as the two fled after Reikes had been shot, one raced through the Capitol grounds as the | (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) THUGS KILL OFFICER: ESCAPE POLICE NET New York Policeman Gives Life in Foiling Pay Roll Robbery Attempt. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 15.—Six thugs escaped through a police net today after they had shot and killed a police- man in an unsuccessful effort to seize a $7,200 pay roll of a Brooklyn shoe factory. The policeman, Walter de Castillia, had accompanied David Weinstein, president of the shoe company, to the bank to obtain the firm’s pay roll and after returning to the factory retired behind a partition while Weinstein and two girl clerks counted out the money. Four men entered, leveled guns at ‘Weinstein and demanded that he turn over the pay roll. Castillia stepped from behind the partition, gun in hand. But he never got a chance to use the weapon. Three of the bandits immediately opened fire and Castillia dropped to the floor, four slugs in his body. The men turned and fled, leaving the money behind. They forced an ele- vator operator to take them down from the sixth floor of the Loft Building. The operator became confused and let them out on the second floor. Meanwhile clerks had shouted from the windows to pedestrians to sound an and police reserves were called. No one had seen the bandits leave the building and 30 patrolmen, armed with riot guns, guarded all exits while de- tectives made a systematic search of the nine-story bullding. No trace of the men could be found. District line, seriously injured, told | by four men with whom he was go- | “REDS" IN SCHOOLS |Federation Asks Board Probe Conditions—Protests Airport Bill. | The Board of Education was called upon to make a painstaking investigat- | tion of reported Communist activities in the public schools of the District by the Federation of Citizens’ Associations ! at its meeting in the District Building last night. The federation also, after voicing strong protest to the establishment of the airport, as in Senator Hiram Bingham’s bill, authorized Dele- gate Charles I. St le to the bill before the legis having it under consideration, The federation would have the Board of Education, if it finds that it has the authority, “take the necessary action to stamp out the dissemination of Com- munist propaganda among the school children of the District of Columbia; or, if it finds that it does not have the au- thority, that the board make suitable | , recommendations to the proper auf - ities for the effectual elimination of teachings and disseminations of munist propaganda and literature in the public schools of the District.” Much Comment Elicited. ‘The_raising of the Communist ques- on brought forth considerable com- ment from various delegates to the CITIZENS TOFIGHT | oppose tive committees | A “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and to UP) Means Associated Press. FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS | TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE HAITIAN PROBLEM BELIEVED SOLVED BY HOOVER GROUP Borno and Foes Agree to Se- lection of Eugene Roy as Temporary President. COMMISSION ARRANGES FOR HOMEWARD JOURNEY Chief Executive Advises He Will Recognize Government and Approve Elections. By the Associated Press. PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Mirch 15. —After only two weeks of work in Haiti, but armed with wide administrative powers conferred upon them by radio from Washington, the Hoover investi- gation commission tonight believed they had settled the long-standing Haitian political problem, and ultimately the question of American occupation. President Louis Borno, who has been recalcitrant toward the commission’s plan for holding legislative elections and setting up a provisional govern- ment, suddenly agreed to the plans to- ay. The commissioners immediately cap- ped his acceptance by announcing in a formal statement that all sides had agreed on the selection of Eugene Roy to be temporary president until legisla tive elections can be held later this yeai ‘They now believe that their work is yver and are arranging to leave Haiti tomorrow for home aboard the U. 8. 8. Rochester, which brought them to Haiti on February 28. Borno Approves Roy. ‘The choice of M. Roy has been proved by President , by B:; John H. Russell, American higl commissioner, and, of course, by.the op- position groups who wnsmild:nt Hoover also gave his appro the council on April 14. He will take office, however, until May 15, when President Borno's term expires. President Hoover informed the com- missioners that he would government elected this year proved the holding of legislative elec- as Mr. desired to call federation, all of whom were vigorous | f. in their condemnation of the movement. | Delegate Stengle announced that he | wanted the teachers included in the | investigation. “If any of them are black at heart,” he declared, “it is a public | duty to get rid of them.” | Delegate Harry N. Stull told the fed- eration that the Communist movement here is a serious threat to the Govern- ment of the United States and one which cannot be cast aside lightly. “I think it is a matter of grave im- % (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) DAVIS T0 ANNOUNCE SENATE CANDIDACY | Secretary Says Statement Will Be Given Before Departure From Pittsburgh Tomorrow. | By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, March 15—Secre- | tary of Labor James J. Davis made | known tonight that he would announce his candidacy for the United States Senate before leaving Pittsburgh Mon- | day. The announcement was expected | to be made Sunday afternoon. The Secretary arrived here this mnorning from the eastern part of the State and went to offices he maintains | here to draft his announcement. There was such a steady stream of callers, however, that he made little headway. During the afternoon and evening the Secretary conferred with a num- | ber of Allegheny County Republican | for the candidate for the s whose name will then be submitted to the council of state, which will vote on April 14, 4 ved by beth sides in due course he then succeed to the presidency at the expiration of President Borno's term, having pledged himself to call elections for the legislative chambers at the earliest possible date. “Ye will present his to the chambers when they convene. The latter will then proceed to elect a Presi- dent for the regular term. Hoover Sanctions Program. “The program also has the sanction and the approval of President Hoover | and of the State Department in Wash- | gt n, “The commission feels that this is a happy solution of the problem and wishes to express its thanks to Presi- dent Borno and the officers of the government on one side, and to the representatives and delegates of the federated groups on the other, for their leaders. (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) RIDES SEA IN |Excited Children Comprise By the Associated Press. BOSTON, March 15.—Resurrected like the Phoenix of old, the 132-year-old frigate Constitution, three years ago a pathetic, decaying hulk, tonight rode the sea again, her sleek black hull stanch and true. Much of her refitting still is to be done. Many a day will pass before her towering masts raise their heads against the sky, and many another day before ger gleaming sails billow in salty reeze. Ironsides is afloat 5 ‘The ceremony of refloating after three years of rebuilding was the simplest. At the head of the great concrete box that forms the dry dock stood Lieut. John A. Lrd, grizzled master builder of such steel glants as the superdreadnaughts New York and Arizona, to whose crafts- manship the renewed Constitution is monument. With him were Rear Ad- miral Philip Andrews and Capt. C. M. Simmers of the naval t of re- cot tion. ‘T excited forms of children com d greater part of the crowd of ,000 about the dry dock—and m‘ 80, for they represented ymu 3 ¢ But this glorious fact stands out—Old 5 floating. 1y :;1:: after President Washin RESURRECTED OLD IRONSIDES BOSTON HARBOR Greater Part of Crowd at Simple Refloating Ceremony. which has poured so many millions o! its pennies into the $400,000 that al- ready has been spent in renewing the veteran warship. Martial music that has often stirred battles. The brave old ship was built only mile away from the scene of her re- keel was lald down ed the bill auth-rizing construction.