Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1930, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. S, Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers tonight and possibly temperature lder tomorrow. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 66, at noon to- day; lowest, 43, at 7 a.m. today. Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y.Markets,Pages 13,14 & 15 row morning; lowest about 48 degrees; col tomor- tonight @h No. 31,366. post office, Entered as second class matter ‘Washinj . C: $45,284,317 SUM INCLUDED) WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1930—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. IN DISTRICT 1931 BUDGET; OFFICIALS ARE ATTACKED Fund Increased $3,796,702 Over 1930 BILL INCLUDES GIFT FROM U. S. $3,000,000 More for Center Also Favored The House appropriations com- mittee today reported the largest District appropriation bill ever recommended, totaling $45,284,317, for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The bill represents an increase of $3,796,702 over the current ap- propriations and a reduction of $217,711 from the estimates sub- mitted by the Budget Bureau. The permanent annual and indefinite appropriations total $2,482500, making a total of $47,766,817 which would be available under the bill. Continuation of the $9,000,000 lump-sum contribution by the United States Government is provided. The hearings, which were made public with the report, show that District officials were subjected to severe criticism at the hands of the subcommittee on appropri- ations which conducted the ses- sions and that scarcely any of them escaped grilling. Earliest possible construction of the new Municipal Center is provided for in the bill, which carries a second $3,000,000 for acquisition of the four- square site on the north side of Penn- sylvania avenue between Third and Sixth streets and a working appropria- ion of $65,000 for a special force of 14 daraftsmen, experts on monumental work, and $9,000 for a model of the proposed group. Tax Rate Not Cut. “The. - provides the tax rate now m*ecn on m&h ‘carhmfr- ble property shall not be decreased for the fiscal year 1931, but increases ap- tely 40 per‘ ;:ent ‘water rates and service from $7.03 to $9.85 of 40 per cent for business places not re- quired to install meters under existing regulations. +All salary step-ups for District em- ployes under the Welch act were re- fused by the committee, although the District Commissioners had asked $100,~ 000 for this purpose, The public school budget of $13,651,- 630 shows a net increase of $1,666,930, of which $1,248,700 is an increase for school buildings. A new assistant corporation counsel, g at a salary of $6,500, who will specialize in public utilities matters, is provided | Lieut., Mina V: for. Provides Investigations. The committe put into the approps tion bill two new provisions for import- ant investigations, one to “study the power needs of the District with a view to establishing a municipally owned and operated service” and the other to in- vestigate the title to lands and rights at Great Falls. For the former study an appropria- tion of $25,000 is recommended. air- man Simmons said toda) that this is to determine if a considerable saving can be effected in the cost of light, heat and power for the new municipal cen- ter, the school system, the courts and other important units of the municipal administration. A general plant to supply service to the business residences of the District is not con- templated. The District owns a plant at Plains with & considerable sav- ing and the subcommittee thought it ‘worth while to have a study made to see if an important savin~ might be ef- cted for the entire District govern- pt, which now pays about $900,000 a a3 for such service. 3%n appropriation of $10,000 is made for the corporation counsel’s office “to investigate the title of the Cheaspeake & Ohio Canal Co. to certain lands, prop- erties and rights appurtenant thereto, and the said company’s authority to oc- cupy and use said lands, properties and rights, including the authority to bring suits, in the name of the United States or the District of Columbia as may v necessary for the purpose of de- tel the same, employment of a special assistant to the corporation counsel, traveling, clerical and other expenses necessary and incidental to carrying out these provisions.” In an effort to co-operate with the Civil Service Commission to raise the mental standard of the Police Depart- ment, & proviso has been included in the bill, prohibiting employment “as a private on_the Metropolitan police of (Continued on Page 6, Column 2., GIRL, 19, KILLS RIVAL FOR MAN’S AFFECTIONS Quarrel in Boarding House at Camgden, 8. C., Results in Fatal Shooting. By the Associated Press. CAMDEN, 8. C, March 17.—Lottie Villipigue, 19, stabbed Bessie Robinson, 16-year-old Rock Hill gir], to death here Jast night in what friends sald was a quarrel over the affections of Cleo Gregory, 25. Miss Villipigue, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. K. S. Villipigue of Camden, is held in jail here, but formal charges have not been lodged against her pending an inquest. Nannie T. Elliott, 18, and ber brother, Robert Elliott, are held as ma- terial witnesses. ¢ “The killing took place at a boarding | tion. They naturally have been inter- ria- | & and Hair BY BEN McKELWAY. Hearings on the District appropria- tion bill, released today, contain the usual assortment of interesting tables and statements bearing on the financial relations between the United States and the District of Columbia. The tables, prepared by the District auditor, are, of course, accurate and the figures un- assailable. Major interest in their in- clusion in the record of testimony, from lies in the manner of their interpreta- RICH PRISON DIET BRINGS CRITICISM Tender Chicken, Choice Cuts of Meat and Fresh Fish on “Menu.” A delectable fare of luscious fruits, fresh roasting chickens (old roosters positively banned), choice cuts of meat and fish and bivalves right from the ocean—served to woman prisoners at the House of Detention—brought forth during the budget hearings, it was dis- closed today. Apparently agreeing with the remark of tI\ehl;a\‘re-etmt.lvet nglundny that “we ?n iem up al expense af &xl!.hrd." '.hg committee B i i § ] ; s i g én . i £ g i £ deprived of the House of their mhl treatment at Detent and housed in day in October, against $8.08 at the House of Detention. The per capita cost in November at the re- ceiving home was $3.42, as against $9.46 at House of Detention. The capita cost in December was $4.14 at the receiving home, as against $8.11 at the House of Detention. Of course, they point out that a part of their per capita cost is due to the maintenance of the Women’s Bureau there. * * * “We have here the requisitions for supplies for the House of tion. Here is one list: Ten pounds of lemons, 40 pounds of bananas, 25 pounds of celery, 5 pounds of cranberries, 25 pounds of head lettuce. “Those are small items, but the type of stuff that you and I pretty closely when we take them into our own homes.” Maj. Pratt, to whom the remarks (Continued on Page 6, Column 5.) Erich Heinkel Killed. WARNEMUENDE, Germany, March 17 ().—Erich Heinkel, eldest son of Ernst Heinkel, widely known airplane builder, was killed near here last night when his motor car struck a tree in a snowstorm. The elder Heinkel con- structed the liner Bremen’s catapult plane and in 1927 built a large hydro- plane which attempted an unsuccessful flight to the United States. the viewpoint of the District taxpayer, | he FISCAL RELATIONS SIDELIGHTS Figures Interpreted Two Ways—How the City Benefits From Army Officers, Russet Shoes, Revolvers Clippers. preted one way by the proponents of the lump-sum scheme of appropriations; to the extent, in fact, that the casual reader is left with the impression that these statistics, coming from official— and therefore unbiased—sources. repre- sent contentions that are unanswerable. ‘Their arrangement, however, raises the question whether the District audi- tor in preparing the tables has done so merely to present “the concise history of the fiscal situation,” that Repre- sentative Simmons calls it, or whether has arranged them according to the views and upon the specific request of (Continued on Page 3, Column 4.) HITZCALLS COURTS OF D.C. 0BSOLETE Judge Declares Entire Sys- tem Here Should Be Overhauled. ‘Washington has outgrown its courts since the World War and a complete overhauling of “the whole judicial system of the District of Columbia” should be undertaken, it was declared by Assoclate Justice William Hitz of the District Supreme Court, following criti- cism of conditions In the local courts voiced by members of the House Dis- trict subcommittee during the hearings on appropriations. After defending himself and his col- leagues on the bench from accusations of Chairman Simmons that the jurdges here do not spend long enough hours in court, Justice Hitz declared: “Up to the war with Germany Wash- ington was a country village. It became a great city then and it will never re- lapse. The whole judicial system of the District of Columbia should be con- sidered together and overhauled, and that can be done with great advantage. “I do not think to give this court two ‘more es l.n‘d do t:c%hinx elsleb ‘w"l}; uemmnmy important good. only palliate a situation that has grown up for human reasons.” “Simmons Reads Check-Up. Criticism of members of the commit- tee arose from the reading by Chair- man Simmons of a check made by rep- resentatives of the Bureau of Efficiency on the time spent on the bench by of the Police, Municipal and Dis- Supreme Courts during an “aver- age” week. This survey, Mr. Simmons asserted, showed that the average day of m was “less than four hours.” g to the check-up agent as an “amicus curiae,” which in legal term- inology means “a friend of the court,” Justice Hitz expressed the opinion that in measuring the work of the courts he had “applied the wrong yardstick.” *“No, sir,” Chairman Simmons replied. “He did exactly what I asked him to do, and he does not need to be called an amicus curiae. That is not the word at all. He was a Government employe. He Is hired on the job of investigating ex- penditures, and I had him assigned for that . He was not a spy, a snooper or anything else in that sense. There were six of them in the courts at the same time, so there is no need for any resentment against them for what they did. He did exactly what I asked him to do—that is, to note when the court opened in the morning, when it closed at noon, when it began again in the afterncon and when it closed at night. Declares Attorneys Pleased. “That was all that was involved in it. Now this committee does not feel that it is its obligation to attempt to reor- ize the courts, but I will say for your lormation. judge, that since somebody in the court house released the state- ment, I have had direct communication and indirect communication with a number of prominent lawyers who have very frankly told me that they were glad (Continued on Page 7, Column 7.) BIG AIR RACE PLANNED. Course Circles Around U. 8. and Into Mexico and Canada. DETROIT, March 17 (#).—Plans for an airplane race, circling the United States and including portions of Mexico and Canada, were announced today by F. R. Maxwell, jr., president of the American Cirrus Engies, Inc., of Marysville, Mich. ‘The race will be open to all licensed pilots, men or women, whose planes meet the sponsors requirements, The tenfgtive itinerary is as follows: New York to Atlanta, Houston, Mexico City, Dallas. El Paso, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Omaha, Chicago, Montreal and New York. SUPREME COURT’S “USURPATION” OF POWER IS SCORED BY CAPPER Kansan Says ‘The minority opinions of Justices Holmes, Brandeis and Stone in the Su- preme Court “have seemed fairer and more constructively in the public inter- est,” said Senator Arthur Capper in a radio address today, “than the majority opinions, and there should be some more members of the court with their view- point.” Senator Capper spoke over the Co- lumbia Broadcasting System from Washington through WMAL. Through t] oS o fourteenth amendment, Senator said, “the court has asumed is more and more tive house where the Robinson girl was a + rocmer, powers.” He added: “Many and Minority Opinions Seem Fairer to Public Than Majority’s, Over Radio. more and more peorle throughout, the country are rebelling against this usurpation of power by the court, espe- cially as they see it resulting in m,gE:r and higher rates based on capitalization beyond control of either States or the National Gevernment.” Referring to the recent fight on the floor of the Senate against the con- firmation of Chief Justice Hughes, when opponents of the appointee mustered 26 votes against him, Senator Capper continued: “Personally, T h::.s'very rmiu:h in '“:fl: of Justice gl for & place on supreme bench. But also, I believe it was_a good thing for the court and for the country that he had some plain. comment on the tendency of Court and the courts ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION -//5..4 T ST = ‘e - (Pl ASTRENUOUS ) dly M il ’f\ | ¢ Foening Star. FHP DR. REICHELDERFER CONSIDERED FOR DISTRICT COMMISSIONER Retired Physician Identified With Na- tional Guard Given Serious Thought to Succeed President Hoover is known to be se- riously considering Dr. Luther Reichel- derfer, retired physician and surgeon, for a number of years identified with the .District National Guard, for ap- pointment as District Commissioner to succeed Sidney F. Taliaferro. Dr. Reichelderfer, who has never been a candidate for this place, was sug- gested to the President by officials of the District of Columbia Medical As- sociation, of which he was at one time president, and because of his wide ex- Taliaferro. perience and long residence in this city the President is understood to think very highly of him. It has developed that in his search for a successor to Commissioner Talia- fer1o, the President has eliminated all of the names of availables that were suggested to him except Dr. Reichel- derfer, Ringgold Hart and Dr. George C. Havenner. Mr. Hart was for a num- ber of years assistant corporation coun- sel, and is now a practicing lawyer here. It is understood that the President’s choice lies between these three men, with _Dr. Reichelderfer, according to (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) PONTIFICAL MASS -FOR FOCH HALTED “Irregularities” in Affair Giv- en as Cause of Bishop M. J. Curley’s Veto Order. Formal notice was sent today to 2,000 invitees, including President Hoover, | high Government officials and members | of the diplomatic corps of the “in- definite postponement” of the pontifical requiem mass which was to have been celebrated in St. Matthew's Catholic Church here Thursday morning on the first anniversary of the death of Ferdi- nand Foch, generalissimo of the allled armies during the World War. ‘The postponement, which amounts to a cancellation, was ordered by Arch- bishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore after, according to his secretary, cer- tain “irregularities” in connection with the affair had been called to his at- tention. No Further Explanation. Mgr. Edward L. Buckley, pastor of St. Matthew's, said this morning that Archbishop Curley, who was to have officlated at the mass, had made no expjanation of the postponement to him, but had merely sent notice that the church a}wul:d not be used for the purpose planned. The proposed mass had been spon- sored by Kenneth D. Murphy, who vas under fire during a congressional in- vestigation in 1925 of the National Disabled Soldiers’ League, Inc. Murphy had arranged for a meeting at the Mayflower Hotel following the celebration of the mass, but this meet- ing was canceled several days ago. Murphy was regis as a_guest at the hotel, but, according to officials, left without making known & forwarding address after the meeting had been can- celed. Representative J. Hamilton Fish, jr., of New York, who presided over the investigation into the league's activities, said he was “pleased to learn that the archbishop had ordered postponment ot the mass.” According to the printed list of com- mittees on the invitations sent out, Murphy was chairman of the executive committee of the Marshal Ferdinand Foch memorial committee, Mrs. Jasper Bayne was listed as associate chairman and Dr, Abram Post Blakey as vice chairman. Senator David Walsh Chairman. Senator David 1. Walsh was named as honorary chairman of the arrangements committee, and Judge Mary T. Norton as_honorary vice chairman. The general honorary committee in- cluded the names of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke, New- ton D. Baker, Walter F. Brown, F. Trubee Davison, Secretaries Patrick J. Hurley, Arthur M. Hyde, Robert P. La- mont, Willlam D. Mitchell, and others. “1 was astounded when I learned ;several days ago that Kenneth D. Murphy had obtained the names of so many notables ‘for his committee,” Mr. Fish said. Fish Warned Against Murphy. “I was chairman of the House com- mittee which sometime ago investigated the activities of the National Disabled Yeteran had been questioned, I warned Senator Walsh uflumn :fi the com- mittee to withdraw.” WIFE IDENTIFIES DOHENY-FALL NOTE | Tells How Oil Man Tore Off _Signature to;Protect For- mer Secretary. Only a short time after his wife had testified in his defense, Edward L. Doheny, millionaire oil operator, cha with bribery, took the stand to tell of his loan of $100,000 to Al- bert B. Fall and the subsequent leasing by his company of the Elk Hills naval oil reserve, By the Assoclated Press. Mrs. Carrle Estelle Doheny, wife of Edward L. Doheny, today took the stand in her husband’s trial on charges of bribery to tell of the loan of $100,000 Doheny made to Albert B. Fall, former ?:geury of the Interior, in November, “Mrs. Doheny,” asked Frank J. Hogan. Doheny's chief counsel, “did you ever see & promissory note bearing Al- bert F. Fall's signature?” “Yes,” replied Mrs. Doheny. She told how the signature was torn from the Fall note by her husband just before they departed from New York for Los Angeles. She said Do- heny ‘told her it was a demand note, and if anything happened to them it would leave Fall in a bad position if their executor insisted-on payment. He explained, she said, by tearing off the signature Fall would be safe until able to pay the money. She told of taking the note to Los Angeles and putting it in a safe deposit box and added it was misplaced and not found until after Doheny had testi- fied before the Senate oil committee. She produced the signature which was shown the jury. She also identified the remainder of the note. Defense counsel for Doheny today introduced four ministers who testified to Doheny’s “high” character, and other witnesses through whom it attempted to prove that ruflmlbfliw for the leasing of the Elk Hills naval oil reserve to a Doheny company lay with the Navy Department and not with Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior. Doheny is charged with giving a bribe of $100,000 to Fall to influence him to award Elk Hills to the oil man’s company. Joseph D. Carey, sec- retary to the late Edwin Denby, f (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) A Vast Audience Consider 120,000 families reading their favorite Sunday paper, The Sunday Star. All the news and every worthwhile subject are cov- ered to interest every mem- ber of the family. Advertising plays a leading part in every household. The Sunday Star is the great market place for buyer and seller. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) e The Sunday Star, 100,089 2nd Newspaper. .. 45,954 3rd Newspaper... 30,528 Wise merchants use The Star to a greater extent than all other Washington papers combined. WCKERSAN HTS PLANFOR 2B Chairman Doubts if Dyer’s Proposal Would Solve Pro- hibition Problem. By the Assogiated Press. Chairman Wickersham of the Hoover Law Enforcement Commission said to- day he did not think the proposal for 2.75 per cent alcohol in beer, as con- tained in the bill of Representative Dyer, would meet the prohibition prob- lem. Chairman Wickersham made = this statement at the Capitol after he had appeared before the Senate judiciary committee on the Norris pmmul for a Senate investigation of prohibition en- forcement, Before the Senate committee Wicker- sham said he could see no good in the estion that the Senate investigate prohibition enforcement. Favors Enforcement Unit Change. He urged instead that the Senate pass the House bill to transfer the dry en- forcement machinery from the to the Justice Department. This trans- fer was recommended by the commis- sion. ‘Wickersham insisted there had been a “steady improvement” in the dry law enforcement of recent months. He said the commission probably would make another rej to_Co , before the on its investigations into prohibition. Smill broadly when asked about ::'l:i z.‘;:'a‘ beer proposal, Wickersham 1 don't think that would satisfy a | ropust taste.” [e did not expand that particular statement. ‘Wickersham was before the committee two hours. No vote was taken on the resolution for the prohibition investiga- tion. “There has been a steady improve- ment in prohibition enforcement,” Wickersham said. “I attribute this to increased vigilance, to increased atten- tion on the part of the administration and to the general perfection of meth- ods of enforcement.” Says Law Is Well Enforced. During a break in the Senate com- mittee session the chairman told news- paper men that a regon from one of the investigators of his corps showed that the prohibition law was being bet- ter enforced than any other law. Asked directly if the dry law was being enforced, Mr. Wickersham replied that it was not “100 per cent,” and then mentioned the report of his special investigator, who was not named. Another year will be required by the commission to conclude its work, the chairman said. He added he did not know whether the commission ultimately would de- cide to go into the merits of the eighteenth amendment and the Vol- stead act. BRITTEN PLANS PROBE. Navy Officers to Be Asked About Williams’ Assignment. By the Assoclated Press. Chairman Britten of the House naval committee announced today he proposed to call upon high naval officials for an explanation of a recent order assigning Lieut. Alford J. Willlams, the Navy's speed flyer, to sea duty. After the order was issued Willlams resigned, saying he desired to continue his work in devel- opment of fast seaplanes. ‘The chairman did not indicate when the naval officers would be summoned. ‘The naval committee today asked the Navy Department for a report on the Fitzgerald bill, proposing promotion of Williams to the rank of captain on the retired list. FISH SAFE UNTIL APRIL 1, THOUGH HOOVER GOES TO CAMP THIS WEEK Trout Season Closed, So President Will Not Indulge in Favorite Sport on Vacation. Even though the trout season will not be open, President Hoover has decided to make his first visit of the year to the Rapidan fishing camp in the Vir- ginia mountains this week end. Since he plans to leave Washington some time Saturday, it is doubtful if he will have an opportunity to visit the little school in Dark Hollow which he was instrumental in having established. The trout season will not open until Tuesday, April 1, under Virginia law, and Mr. Hoover has made it clear that he will observe the statute. No indi- cation was -nqlut he would prolong Associated service. [y (#) Means Associated Press. MARYLAND PROBES CRASH OF D. C. GAR: 3 DEAD, 3 INJURED Auto Smashes Into Concrete Culvert and Plunges Into 20-Foot Ravine. WOMAN’S BODY IS FOUND AFTER HALF-HOUR HUNT Party En Route to Baltimore When Machine Meets Disaster Near Savage. Maryland authorities began an in- vestigation today of the automobile acci- dent on Baltimore boulevard last night which killed three Washingtonians and injured three others when an automo- bile crashed into a concrete culvert near Savage and hurled them into a 20- foot ravine. The dead: Samuel Matthews, 23 years old, of No. 22 Todd place northeast, president of the Original Sam, Inc., department store in the 3100 block of M street. George Posey, 25 years old, formerly of Rockville, who roomed at 3118 M street, employed in the trucking busi- ness here. He is the son of Charles Posey of Potomac, Md. Mrs. Catherine Burnell, 24 years old, of 3114 M street. Of the three survivors, the most seriously injured was Miss Gertrude Cephillie, 23 years old, of , J. She received internal injuries. Her condition today had failed to improve. Party on Pleasure Trip. The other two injured were Howard O. Burnell, 24 years old, a bricklayer and husband of the dead woman, living at 3114 M street, and Miss Ethel Ran- dolph, 18 years old, of the 3000 Jf O street. ‘With Burnell driving, the party of young people was en route to Balti- more on & pleasure trip. it According to of the wreck, by a Washington newspape; Baltimore last night and was on the scene of the accident, an attempt by the driver of the death car to swerve his machine from the left side of the road and miss oncoming trafic caused the wreck. The witness said: “The car was com- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) PARLEY NAY ASK ROME FOR FIRURES Tardlefi-uacdonald-s:imson Conversations Indicate Prolonged Conference. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Wirel 7 Wieshg S, o8 St hed Geese s LONDON, England, March 17.—The London Naval Conference is still writh- ing in the throes of a great crisis. It has been learned that the only really constructive result of yesterday’s and today's conversations between French Premier Andre Tardieu, Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald and Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson was the fact that all concerned felt emphatically that it would be most useful to continue the negotiations, perhaps even several weeks more. But Great Britain has reiterated its inability to accept the French figures without increasing its own. France has Telterated its inability to reduce its fig- ures without a new security pact whose tendency would be to allay the long- standing Franco-Italian tension. Great Britain has reiterated its reluctance to enter any such pact and has again sug- gested a possible ratio of 3 to 2 between France and Italy instead of parity with France, which Italy claims. In order to make sure that no means of facilitating a five-power agreement shall be overlooked, France and Great Britain seem to have agreed to make a joint request to Premier Mussolini in Rome that he do his utmost to help the conference by putting down real figures instead of repeating on all occasions “Parity with France.” The United States has reiterated its reluctance to abandon the five-power-pact idea and is once more urging Great Britain to take up the Mediterranean pact nego- tiations with the French, which, in- deed, Great Britain promised France in the preliminary exchange of notes. Japan Still Obstacle. It is again confirmed that Great Britain and the United States intend to try to make a three-power pact with Japan 1n case a flve-power pact is finally impossible, and for this purpose the United States would even be willing to accept the tonnage increases on which the admiralty would in-that case insist vis-a-vis France—namely, 35,000 (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) The only evening paper in Washington with the Press news Saturday’s Circul 112,978 Sunday’s Cirulhl“:l.n' 120,115 TWO CENTS. VANDENBERG CALLS ON YOUNG T0 BARE AIRPORT CHARGES “Insinuation” of Graft in Choice of Site Draws Fiery Denial From Bingham. OWNERS OFFERED AREA AT LOW PRICE, HE SAYS Willing to Yield Acreage for Cost, to Be Shown by Audit, Plus 10 Pct., Senator Asserts. An immediate investigation of pub- lished reports intimating that two or more members of Congress were - terested in the site proposed for the District airport near the south end of the Highway Bridge was inaugurated today by Senator Vandenburg, Repub- lican, of Michigan, chairman of the Senate subcommittee in charge of the fllrg.:rt ‘:fll.h » mittee in charge of the airport bill. At the same time Senator Bingham, Republican, of Connecticut, cha!rmnn of the Joint Congressional Airport Com- mission, also declared in the Scnate that so far as he knew no member of the joint co on “is in the slightest de‘gree financially interested” in the sit Read H. E. Young Statement. Senator Vandenberg began by sayin, he had read the !n{e‘menu é;ydlwd us H. E. Young of the Iowa-Thomas Circle Citizens’ Association, and added that Young would be asked to give the in- formation he was represented as having. As soon as the debate in the Senate was over, an assistant sergeant-at-arms was sent out with a subpoena for the appearance before the tl T man who was returning from | nd and improper, and it is untrue, it is vicious. In the work which has been done in connection with the airport project in Washington there has been much interest exerresud in the work that has been helpful. On the hand, there has been a different type of interest from time to time which has |ALDRIDGE SE will be probed to the bottom.” A few moments after Senator Vans denberg had spoken in the Senate he stated off the floor that steps already were being taken to get in touch with Mr. Young. Senator Bingham, who started the discussion in the Senate, called atten- tion to the newspaper reports, and added: “So far as I have been able to learn —and I have been as close to the mat- ter as any one—no member of the joint commission either of the Senate or of the House is in the slightest degree financially interested in either of those projects,” referring to Hoover Fleld and the Washington Airport. These are the two existing flying fields included m the site recommended for the Dis- trict’s airport. Bingham Describes Procedure. “Furthermore,” tor Bingham went on, “the reason the joint com- mission recommended their purchase was that representatives of the to let the Government audit their ks and that they were willin, to sell their holding for exactly what the books showed the holdings had cost them plus ten per cent or even less, and with that very reasonable offer made by the owners the commission felt that these two pleces of land, which in conjunction with the agricultural experiment station and a part of Co- lumbia Island make the best available site for an airport near the heart of the National Capital, should be adopt- ed, and therefore that was recom- mended .by the commission.” Senator Black, Democrat, of Alabama, also a member of the Airport Commis- sion, joined in the debate to suggest to Senator Vandenberg that the subcom- mittee handling the rt bill should have its meeting this rnoon. Sen- ator Vandenberg replied it would -be held at the earliest possible moment. NTENCED TO DIE IN ‘CHAIR’ JUNE 19 Alfred Scott Aldridge, colored, was sentenced’ today by Justice Peyton Gordon to be electrocuted June 19, for the death of Policeman Harry J. Mc- Donald, July 6, last. It is the first death sentence ever imposed by the Justice. Justice Gordon overruled a motion of the defendant for a new trial Satur~ day but deferred the imposition of sentence until today. Attorney James Rellly for the prisoner noted an appeal to_the Court of Appeals. Policeman McDonald had placed the prisoner and his brother Albert under arrest at s:kvi:anme and dQ streets on a housebreaking and was taking them to a call box when the men opened fire on him. McDonald returned the fire, killing the brother but receiv- ing a fatal wound himself, Assistant Untited States_ Attorneys Walter M. Shea and James R. Kirkland conducted the prosecution. JERICHO PARAPET FOUND. his stay in the mountains to cast a line on the opening day. Mr. Hoover has indicated he will visit the camp each week end until mid- summer when he is expected to visit his home in Palo Alto, Calif, for a few weeks and later go to his camp in the redwoods of California. While in the mood yvesterday for the Jjourney in the open, the President sug- gested a walk to Mrs. Hoover, who readily accepted. strolled about to i walk they passed through the crowds virtually unobserved. JERUSALEM, March 17 (#).—8ir Charles Marston’s expedition, excavat- ing the site of the Biblical City of Jericho, has uncovered the parapet walk of the Canaanite ram) show- g ~ Lh;“?m hers deft a‘?& bt ‘anaanite arcl fended themselves against the Israelites. ‘Towers of several Radio?’mmn?mc-l et