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“From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and warmer tonight and to- eratures—Highest, 59, at 6 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 37, at 5:30 a.m. today. ‘Tem] Full report on page 9. Late N. Y. Markets, Pages 13, 14 & 15 LS he No. 31390 Enerear p——— — e PARLEY EXPERTS DRAFTING 3-POWER NAVAL AGREEMENT Numerous Points on Which All Are in Accord Will Be Included. caaboil PROCEDURE IS ADOPTED AFTER U. S. INTERVENTION Tentative Promises to Sign Are Received From French and Ital- ian Delegation Heads. By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 10.—Naval Confer- ence experts were understood to have been put to work this afternoon draft- ing a five-power agreement which both Foreign Minjsters Briand of France and Grandi of Italy have tentatively agreed to sign as an outgrowth of American intervention this morning. This treaty, it was said, will in effect be a comprehensive three-power pact between the United States, Great Brit- ain and Japan, but will include numer- ous points on which all the five powers are agreed and which France and Italy can sign. The present plan is that controversial matters between France and Italy will be left out, and the clauses which ex- clusively affect the other three powers will be so worded that the two Latin countries will not be involved. The decision to adopt this procedure was reached this morning after Secre- tary Stimson had visited Foreign Min- ister Briand and Hugh S. Gibson had conferred with Foreign Minister Grandl. Briand Seems Enthusiastic. ‘Briand is said to be enthusiastic over this solution and Grandi has also in- dicated tentative willingness to sign. The Italians have rather been left out of negotiations recently and Grandi is not so conversant with the trend of affairs as are the other delegation chiefs. Therefore he naturally wishes to know about what he is expected to sign before he definitely agrees tc put his name to it. Prime Minister Macdonald, Secretary Stimson and Reijiro Wakatsuki met this morning and cleared the decks for the comprehensive three-power pact when the still outstanding but minor point concerning a definition for use in connection with training ships was set- tled by Britain, Japan and the United States. It was stated in well informed quar- ters that today's tri-partite agreement on training ships was along the follow- ing lines: Each of the three powers have the right to retain for training purposes one capital ship which been destined for scrapping. These ships are to be disarmed. This really was a concession to Japan and permits her to retain one battleship which oth- erwise she would have had to scrap. By the same token the United States will scrap only two instead of three and Great Britain four instead of five. Hope to Sail April 22. It is understood that Japan also will be allowed to retain as training ships three light cruisers which otherwise would have been scrapped. ‘When asked again by newspaper men about the prospects of the conference being finished before Easter, Prime Minister Macdonald replied: “I suppose you want an Easter holi- day. So do I, and you may be quite sure we shall take a very humane view of things.” It wlgsunderxwod at American head- quarters that Seeretary Stimson still Thoped to catch the Leviathan homeward bound April 22. o FIGURES ON TONNAGE UNDER LONDON PACT Agreement Between U. S. and Britain Permits Transfers in Allocation. By the Assoclated Press. i LONDON, April 10.—The agreement, to which the United States, Great Britain and Japan will subsoribe soon, will regulate the size of ‘the fleets of these three powers for the next six years. It is understood that a clause pro- viding that it extend for that period and that any nation’s right to expres- slon of a new position at the next con- ference will not be prejudiced, will be placed in the treaty. This will take care of Japan's concessions from the 10—10—7 ratio of large cruisers she had claimed. ‘The figures for the three nations will stand as follows: naval nited ates. 15 Great Britain. Jepan, 15 ] Battleshivs .. "Total cruiser te {5oh orui -inch cruisers (ions) 143,500 119,200 It must be borne in mind that be- tween the United States and Great Britain will exist a so-called optional clause, under which the transfer of cruiser tonnage on the basis of 30,000 tons of 8-inch cruisers equaling 45,000 tons of smaller cruisers, Der- mitted to operate. Thus within these maximums transfers will be permitted from large to cmall cruiser class:s and vica versa. Other than ships definitely to be set out in the u‘en{ under the so-called displacement table, it has been agreed that the age limits will be set at 13 years for submarines, 16 for destroyers and 20 for cruisers. The replacement table will provide certain exceptions on age limits for Japan, and to a lesser degree for Great Britain, in order to keep ship yards busy. ‘The result of the settlement has been to leave Japan at or below here present tonn; in all categories, with minor ?sp o a-nd to egé}:’t reductions ‘where found possible, special phasis on reduction in submarine - . Japan's figures will stand as cruisers—108,400 tons, 00,450 tons, an 208,900 e 323,500 100,450 339,600 Sul of 25,142 from her present figures. The ratios involved for Japan are the ubmarines—100. Total in av.xilaries—69.7. Total for <atire- navy—63.6. f. Entered as second class matter Washington. COOLIDGE SPIKES REPORT HE’LL AGAIN SEEK OFFICE D IC. Has No Intention of Fore- going “Relief” of Private Life. WILL AVOID SENATE Believes His Presence in Congress Would Be Embarrassing. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 10.—Former Pres- ident Calvin Coolidge, in a copyrighted article in the May issue of Hearst's In- ternational and Cosmopolitan, writes that he has no intention of returning to public life. The former President gives his view: on prohibition, the tariff, playing the market, the suggestion that he run for “minding one's own business.” “When I left Washington I left public office,” Mr. Coolidge says. “It is an incomprehensible relief and I have no intention of returning to it. “If I were in the Senate,” he adds, “it would not be agreeable to many of my colleagues, and with all my desires to be helpful it would probably often- times be an embarrassment to the ad- dent in Washington exercising political power would result in all kinds of un- comfortable complications. Only the necessity of serving in some national crisis, so great as to subordinate all Senator, the talk of another term and | ministration. To have a former Presi- | this WASHINGTON, D. C,. Foening Star. ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION THURSDAY, APRIL 10, CALVIN COOLIDGE. other considerations, would warrant it. “Nor,” he says further, “do I have any sympathy with those who are dis- cussing again making me President. The service that I could give to the people in that office I feel is done.” Mr. Coolidge discusses prohibition at some length and in connection there- with the editor of the Cosmopolitan has singled out for prominent presentation sentence: “Considering that people hgve differ- ed most radically on the it method of regulating the sale of liquor for generations, it is not likely to be set- tled for a long time to come.” LEWIS HURLS DRY ISSUE INTO SENATE RACE IN ILLINOIS “Personal Liberty” Put to Fore as Mrs. McCormick’s Court Victory Brings Praise. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 10.—Prohibition, the hot potato of politics, has been tossed by James Hamilton Lewis, Democrat, to Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCor- mick as the major issue of their cam- paign for election next November to the United States Senate. Lewis, a colonel in the Spanish-Amer- ican War and Senate whip in President Wilson’s administration, cast off 12 years’ retirement and gained the Demo- cratic senatorial nomination without a single campaign effort. Mrs. McCor- mick, Mark Hanna's daughter and widow of the late Senator Medill Mc- Cormick, before returning to Washing- ton yesterday, declared it was her op- position to the World Court that swamped Deneen under a 200,000 plu- rality. Deneen, the fourteenth World Court Senator to meet defeat in the Nation, accepted Mrs. McCormick’s is- sue and lost. But Lewis, too, is opposed to the World Court. Lewis shot the question of “personal liberty” to the fore soon after Deneen congratulated Mrs. McCormick on her victory. “It is an issue from which I shall not allow any candidate—man or woman—to escape,” the former Senator said. Question of Freedom. To Lewis the issue is: “Is the Amer- ican a free man to use his will subject to just law in governing his life or is he a servant to be directed to obey, under the penalty of imprisonment and dishonor?” “Then comes the final question: Shall the American citizen submit to the official corruption that is continued in the enforcement of the national prohibition law, to the personal degrada- tion of himself and home and to the defilement of sons and daughters by this system, that is put upon the cit- izens daily through the tyranny of the political masters at the Capital?” Both the Anti-Saloon League of Illi- nois and the Women’s Christian Tem- perance Union accepted the prohibition issue. The latter organization termed Lewis “unalterably wet” and Mrs. Mc- Cormick “unalterably dry.” “Should Lewis carry Illin the W. C. T. U. statement read, “it is rea- sonable to believe him a strong possi- bility for the Democratic presidential nomination—provided _the Democrats are still foolish enough to nominate a wet.” Deneen's only statement outside of a message to his suj and the congratulatory note to Mrs. McCormick was brief. “I am still in politics,” he told newspaper men. Col. Frank L. Smith of Dwight, es- saying a political comeback after being twice refused a seat in the United States Senate because of excessive campaign expenditures, and Richard Yates of Springfield had commanding leads over their 21 opponents for the Republican nomination for Congressman-at- on the face of incomplete returns re- ceived last night. Yates, candidate to succeed himself, was far in the van on returns from about four-fifths of the (Continued on Page 4, Column 2) PLEADS FOR TEACHERS Psychiatrist Says Community Bar- riers Lead to Insanity. commut ‘Wwhicl 1 freedom barriers against personal ‘r?rmncmolteuhm'.hnlzum- LIEQT, WILLIAMS ASKED SEA DUTY, INGALLS TESTIFIES Navy Spent More Than Pri- vate Company on Mercury Plane, Senators Told. The Navy Department not only sup- ported Lieut. Alford J. Williams, jr., in his racing plane program, but has gone so far as to set aside $25,000 to in- vestigate the entire racing situation and determine what part of the Navy should play in the future, David 8. Ingalls, As- sistant Secretary of the Navy for Aero- nautics, today told a subcommittee of the Senate committee on Navy affairs. Lieut. Willlams was ordered to sea duty at his own request, Mr. Ingalls said. He produced two letters which he said were written oy Lieut. Williams, one last October, asking that he be sent to sea. The Navy not only offered Lieut. Wil- liams every possible co-operation in the development of his Mercury racing plane. but actually spent more money on the plane than the private company organized by Lieut. Williams to finance the project, Mr. Ingalls said. Spent $104,000 on Engine. “This private company is said to have contributed approximately $90,000 toward construction of the plane,” Mr. Ingalls told the committee. “The Navy De- partment spent approximately $104,000 to develop the engine used in that plane and $70,000 in the designing and construction of ntoons, etc., S0 that the suppdr: from that end was almost twice that of the private com- The Navy also contributed all of the personnel to handle the project and gave Willlams practically unlimited op- rtunity to carry on the work, he tified. “Virtually the only duties to which Williams was assigned was to fly at avéln’on meets and competitions,” In leclared. feut. Willilams in 12 years of naval service never has had any sea duty and aside from four months in 1931 has had no duty with a fighting unit, although such service is required of every naval aviator.” the secretary said. ‘The order sending Lieut. Williams to sea which resulted in his resignation last month was issued last month only after the Navy De] ent was thor- oughly convinced t Lieut. Williams® project with the Mercury racer was completed, Mr. Ingalls testified. Says Backers Gave Up Hope. Ingalls said that he went to Philadel- personally to see whether ther could be done with the plane. He sald he talked to engineers and to Williams' backers and was told there was no hope the project could be carried on any further. | CHARLES A. W'CARTHY cretary Ingalls = not approve such ‘“romantic - ect” and chn‘%’uum‘ backers were not in.favor of the move. “T talked to Lieut. Williams and. told 3 80 be called back, ere was no dissenting voice trom of the naval chiefs to the issuance the order sending Lieut. Williams to 3 e eptied o _Lieut. Wil rep! ) L = officers of the Naval Aircraft factory hldbuflttheml- lane 880 pounds e t.heuhx;neu on ms’ Williams, was in’charge of the project and alone was Am military planes in general are to hting planes in the wwl'fi',‘"f-}nu.mu’am“mmgmmcm He “Spring Fashions in Washington Shops” An Exclusive Feature of Special Interest to Women Appears on Pages C-12 and C-13 of - Today’ s Star IEFFORT TO DECEIVE SENATE ON LEASE CHARGED T BROWN Maas, in Formal Statement, Challenges Explanation of St. Paul Post Office. GLASS EXPRESSES VIEW DEAL WAS ‘FRAUDULENT’ Provision in Bill to Withhold Up- keep Funds Retained by Upper House. By the Associated Press. Formal statement charging Postmas- ter General Brown with “deliberately attempting to mislead the Senate” with respect to the leasing of a post office building at St. Paul, was issued today by Representative Maas, Republican, of Minnesota. Maas' statement was in answer, it sald, to Brown's statement yesterday that his only connection with the leas- ing of the building was that of insur- ing that it was safe for occupancy. “As a matter of fact,” Maas said, “the Postmaster General’s connection with the lease was far more intimate.” The statement continued that Brown sent Assistant Postmaster General Coleman to make an investigation of the condition of the building last Oc- tober, while the Government was at- tempting to condemn the building and | vacate the lease. Claims One Side Heard. “Coleman with Brown's knowledge held an ex-parte hearing in the post office in St. Paul, calling in only wit- nesses for the owners,” Maas' state- ment said, adding that “this evidence alone was given out,” “It was a strange way for a client— the Post Oftice Lepartment—to assist his counsel, the attorneys in the con- demnation procedure,” Maas added, “and every other bit of help the Post Office Department has given has been just as strange.” The Senate today voted to retain the provision in the post office appropria- tion bill stipuiating that no funds shall be paid during the forthcoming fiscal year for upkeep of the station in St. Paul. The vote was 35 to 25. Discussion of the St. Paul post office lease in the Senale resulted in a reso- lution by Senator Blaine, Republican, for a general investigation of post of- fice leases. Blaine and Senator Nye, Republican, North Dakota, charged that there were evidences of “collusion and fraud.” Previously Maas had assailed the St. Paul lease in the House. The statement continued that Brown permitted insertion in the appropria- tion bill of an item of $120,000 for rent on the 8t. Paul building, though the St. Paul authorities had ‘already con- demned the building.” Maas said later Brown appeared be- fore the Senate appropriations com- mittee and asked that the amendment be stricken out. Report on Building Hit. “Several wéeks ago the Postmaster General asked the Treasury Departinent to make still further investigation of t.h‘ed condition of the site,” the statement | sa “The Postmaster General chose the | higher appraisal,” Maas assehter, “in | face of the fact that a commission | appointed by a Federal court in the condemnation suit has recommended an award of $317,000.” Although the property had been con- partment occupled it until two weeks before final action by the court. Then, he added, a report on the Treasury De- partment’s investigation was issued, declaring the building 99 per cent sound. This report stated, he said, that the building adjoining the post office substation was in danger of collapse. The two buildings had one wall in common, the statement said, and the report recommended piling furniture in the post office against the walls to pre- vent its collapse. “Yet the report declared the post ofl’lga 99 per cent safe,” the statement said. ‘The Postmaster General “then sent Representative Sproul, Republican, Illi- nois, a letter to be into the Con- gressional Record, appraising the prop- erty at $678,000,” the statement as- serted, “although there were ir the Post Office Department filed estimates of its own postal inspectors, placing the value at $405,000.” Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, ex- pressed the view in the Senate that the lease for the commercial station in St. Paul was “grossly fraudulent.” Senator Phipps, Republican, Colorado, explained that the Government has not d any money on this lease eince ch, 1928, when a grand jury re- mflfid. the lease was “tainted with ud.” demned, Mass said, the Post Office De- | 5 BULLS ON RAMPAGE IN'STOCK MARKET Huge Buying Orders Lift| Prices of Many Issues to New Highs. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 10.—The stock market started off on a wild bull ram- page today as blocks of 5,000 to 35,000 shares changed hands at rising prices. | Initial gains 1n the leaders ranged from a few cents to $3 a share. Total sales in the first half hour crossed the 1,000,- 000-share mark for the first time this year. So great was the volume of trading that the ticker was running 22 minutes behind the market at the end of the first hour. New peak prices for the year were registered by Standard Oil of Kansas, Public Service of New Jersey, Manhat- tan Electrical Supply, Best & ’ | Sparks-Withington, Shubert Theaters, Oliver Farm_Equipment, Worthington Pump, Corn Products, Briggs Manufac- turing, Borden Co., Universal Pipe, Chicago & Alton preferred, Krueger & Toll and Timken Roller Bearing. There was nothing in the overnight news to explain the sudden revival in bullish enthusiasm. It has been ap- parent for several days, however, that bear traders were having difficulty in hammering stocks down, with the re- sult that several issues have developed an overextended short interest, which | was quick to ceover on the appearance of large buying orders. Some of the large early transactions were: Shares. Stock. 35.100 North American Aviation. 25,000 General Electric Net Price. gain. $14.62 5013 9400 .15 Land Trust International Tel. & 5,000 United Gas Improvem't *New 1930 high. DIVIDENDS PROVIDED IN MARRIAGE MARKET Application Filed in Arkansas for Association to Assess and Pay Mutual Accounts. By the Assoclated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark, April 10.— Marriage as an investment, wherein cash dividends would jingle along with wedding bells, is proposed by the Ar- kansas Matrimonial Mutual Association for the benefit of those fearful of wed- lock’s financial encumbrances. On file today with the Arkansas Rail- road Commission, which controls cor- porations in this State, was an appli- cation from the association for a per- mit to sell matrimonial mutual certifi- cates under an assessment plan. A member who married one year after joining the ' association would receive $1,000. The money would be derived from an assessment of $1.25 against all other members. Members marrying within _three months after joining would receive nothing, but after that lod each would receive $250. After six months $500 would be paid. If m: took 1930—FIFTY-SIX PAGES. place after nine months, but within a year, the dividend would be $750. Il’(lS'I'S $2,000 SURETY|— Robbins, Also Charged With Tak- ing Bank Funds, Enters Plea of Guilty. Savings Bank who was recently indicted for alleged embezzlement of the funds of the institution, appeared today be- fore the clerk of Criminal Division 1, and deposited through his son, Lieut. ‘Weller McCarty of Camp Meade, $2,000 in lieu of a bond for his appearance for trial. McCarthy had held the position since the organization of the bank until +his resignation last October. He was accompanied by Attorney Rudolph H. Spring Is Late Yet it is here and Easter is only 10 days off. Have ou seen the new and love- y things in the stores? The advertisements in The Star are full of sugges- tions. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) Lines ‘The Evening Star. .30,274 2d Newspaper.. ...13,514 2& Il:llewspaper o 2523 ewspapet.. . . . 5th Newspapet..... 3,030 Total other 4 papers, 30,187 The Star is read in 110,- 000 Washington and sub- urban homes, of . which 10,000 have been added dur- ing the past two years. Surely The Star and the city are growing. K L3 Car Owner Forces City to Move Zone After Seizing Auto By the Associated Press. DETROIT, April 10.—The city of Detroit impounded Willlam Hennig's automobile because it was parked in a street car safety zone. Hennig made the city move the zone. He produced a map of Wayne County and demonstrated that the safety zone extended 20 feet into Highland Park, Detroit suburb. Yesterday city painters took their paint pots to the city limits and removed the zone from under Hennig's car. “It wasn't the $3 fine,” said Hennig, “it was the principle of the thing " SENATOR CARAWAY RAPS WICKERSHAM Scores Position as Head of Foreign Policy Committee of Church Council. By the Associated Press. The connection of George W. Wicker- sham, chairman of the Hoover Law En- forcement Commission, with interna- | tional banking affairs while head of the | foreign policy committee of the Federal | Council of Churches was termed an “in- | defensible position” today by Chair- man Caraway of the Senate lobby com- mittee. ‘Wickersham’s name came before the cominittee through testimony by Repre- sentative Tinkham, Republican, Massa- chusetts, in amplifying charges ngnn,-l] the Federal Council of Churches. After | asserting that the council was attempt- ing to substitute a theocracy for the present form of government, Tinkham added that Wickersham had until re- cently served as chairman of the coun- | cil's foreign policy commilttee. He con- | tinued that the former Attorney Gen-! eral had business. A letter from Wickersham was then read which said that his law firm had represented at times “international bankers, and we probably at the pres- ent time do represent a number of such interests.” ‘Wickersham’s Qualifications. Senator Blaine, Republican, Wiscon- sin, after Caraway's sharp comment on the law enforcement chairman, asked how Wickersham qualified as an officer of the Council of Churches. “I suppose because he is active in international business,” Tinkham an- swered. He added that he understood Wicker- sham had quit his post with the coun- cil some months ago. Secretary Resigned. Tinkham also read a letter from Charles 8. Macfarland, until recently general secretary of the council, which sald the council “does not consider any question involving principles of right and justice as secular.” been active in international The witness added that Macfarland | cepts: had recently resigned after it had been found that while secretary he “was also upon_the pay roll of the Motion Plc- ture Producers’ Association, whose busi- alu:! the council was attempting to reg- ate.” Another sharp comment from Cara- way resulted. . The committee chairman remarked that this was “the worst ethics in the business.” Blaine joined (Continued on Page 3, Column 7.) Writer Kills Herself. NEW YORK, April 10 (#).—The body of Florence Bloodgood, 31, a writer, was {Arrest Follows Charge in as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 115,332 TWO CENTS. LETTERMAN HELD UNDER S50 BAL Warrant of lllegal Raid of Harmon Home. Sergt. Oscar J. Letterman, head of the police vice squad, was arrested at Police Court this afternoon on a war- rant which charged him with searching private premises without a search war- rant. He deposited $500 with the clerk of the court and was released. The warrant was issued after Mr. and Mrs. Eleck Harmon of the 1600 block | of S street, in whose apartment the raid was made, had made formal complaint to Assistant District Attorney Charles Murray. The paper charged that “on March 28 the accused did enter said apart- ment without a search warrant to con- duct a search and did search.” Sergt. Letterman was waiting with his attorney, E. Russell Kelly, in an ante room while the warrant was being pre- | pared. When it was ready Kelly asked if his client could post bond at once. The request was complied with, and after Letterman had read the war- rant, the collateral was arranged. The policeman declined to discuss the case. Mr. and Mrs. Harmon appeared at the office of Assistant District Attorney Charles Murray shortly after noon to present their request for the warrant. The charges against the policeman developed after he and members of the squad seized a quantity of liquor in the Harmon apartment March 28. i They told Assistant United States At- | torney David A. Hart, in charge of | Police Court liquor prosecutions, that | they had a warrant for the arrest of an- | other man when they went to the Har- mon apartment, but that they did not have a warrant to search the apart- ment. Upon receiving this information, | Mr. Hart refused to issue papers in the | case, holding that the squad had made | an illegal entry. | Police officials, after receiving formal complaints from Mr. and Mrs. Harmon, yesterday started a task of drafting de- partment charges against Letterman and Detective Richard Cox and Pvts. Mostyn and F. A. Prescott. These charges will be heard by the Police Trial Board. AMERICAN MAY FLY DO-X ACROSS SEA. Lieut. Schildrauer Reported to Have Accepted Offer to Pilot Big Plane. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 10.—The New York Sun says it has learned from au- thoritative sources that Lieut. Clarence H. Schildrauer, Navy fiyer, will pilot the Dornier DO-X, giant passenger fly- ing boat, on her projected transatlantic flight this Summer. Lieut. Schildrauer was offered the op- portunity of piloting the plane, the Sun says, in a cable and sent back the fol- lowing answer: “Think I am capable of making flight, ~ Accept offer if Dr. Dornier ac- The flight will be made some time in late July or early August. Lieut. Schildrauer, who was graduated from Annapolis in June, 1918, was the first fiyer to lay down a smoke screen from an airplane. He has done much overwater flying and is considered one of the best heavier-than-air flight men in the service. The DO-X will take off from there and fly via Seville, the Azores and Ber- muda to New York. If successful she will be the first heavier-than-air craft to make the flight from Europe direct to New York City. Plans are for her to carry 50 passengers and a crew of 12 found in her gas-filled apartment, in West Tenth street today. L she committed suicide. Two notes were found directing the disposal of her be- longings. on_the ocean flight. ‘The DO-X is powered with 12 motors, mounted on an auxiliary wing above the one main wing. They generate 7,200 horsepower. MAYANS DANCED TO TUNES OF “OBOE,” MUSEUM FINDS Copper Bells for Hanging on Clothing Enlivened Early Terpischorean Arts. By the Associated Press. OHICAGO, A 10.—Take the Mayans, who uupdm to live in Central America; they went in for the oboe. The Field Museum of Natural History, which has just received a shipment of the ancient Mayan but that's ob ting civilization, doesn’t belleve the instru- | pos ed oboes, mzn:l'm mol DR. REICHELDERFER AND CROSBY SWORN AS COMMISSIONERS New District Heads Assume Duties After Simple Induc- tion Ceremony. MASSES OF FLOWERS ARE SENT BY‘FRIENDS Dougherty and Taliaferro, Ending Service, Will Return to Business Life. ‘The District's two new civillan Com- missioners were sworn in and started to work this afternoon. Daniel E. Garges administered the oath of office, first to Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer and then to Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby. Immediately after Dr. Reichelderfer had sworn to defend the Constitution of the United States, Commissioner Sidney F. Tallaferro pin- ned on his coat the gold badge emblem- atic of the power of the Commissioners and when Gen. Crosby took his oath Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty, his immediate predecessor, pinned a badge on him. Ceremony Is Simple, The ceremony took place in the of- fice of Commissioner Dougherty and department heads of the District Gov- ernment and private and professional friends of the two new Commissioners were present. Mr. Dougherty announced that at the request of the new Com- missioners there would be no speeches. Immediately after the administering of the oath, the new Commissioners posed for photographs and then settled down to their first board meeting this afternoon, at which they were to elect a new president of the board. Commissioners Dougherty and Talia- ferro, whose terms automatically ex- pired with the taking of the oath by their successors, both left the building within a few minutes, going to their respective homes. The ceremony was conducted with brevity and simplicity. Masses of flow- ers sent by friends of the two new city heads and the crowd of persons present were the only touches of the unusual in a routine day at the District Bulld- ing. Mr. Taliaferro goes tomorrow to the Riggs National Bank, of which he was recently elected vice president and trust officer. Next Monday Mr. Dough-, erty wiil take over his duties as director of the Eyesight Conservation Council, with offices in the National Press Building, Fourteenth and F streets. Mr. Dougherty announced his con- nection with the council yesterday afternoon upon receipt of word that Gen. Crosby had been confirmed by the Senate. It had been known for some time that Mr. Taliaferro had been elected to his position with the bank. Establish Headquarters Here. Headquarters of the Eyesight Con- servation Council for the past eight years have been in New York City, but will be moved to Washington, wit] Mr. Dougherty as national director. The purpose of the council is promo- tion of the general conservation and betterment of vision, the improvement of those external conditions and ecir- cumstances of every-day life that infect and may impair eyesight. It is sup- ported by contributions from interested individuals and from industries in which its work is done. The retiring civilian Commissioners, accompanied by the Engineer Commis- sioner, Col. William B. Ladue, paid a brief formal call early this morning on Gen. Crosby at his home, at 2540 Massachusetts avenue. The Commis- sioners immediately returned to the Dis- trict Building to make preparation for receiving their successors. Dr. Reic- helderfer paid a formal call on the Commissioners shortly after his name was sent to the Senate and since then has made many visits to the various institutions which will come under his centrol. Reichelderfer May Head Board. It was thought today that Dr. Reichel- derfer would be the next president of the Board of Commissioners in ac: cordance with the expressed wishes of President Hoover, who declared in a recent statement that he wished Gen. Crosby to have time to concentrate on the Police and Fire Departments. It is expected that jurisdiction over the Health Department, exercised by Com- missioner Dougherty, will be transferred to Dr. Reichelderfer, who would then have control over the Board of Public Welfare, which governs the various city hospitals and welfare, charity and cor- rectional institutions; the legal and financial department of the District, including the offices of the corporation counsel, auditor, assessor and collector of taxes, the insurance department and probably the Health Department. Issue Debated Three Hours. ‘The vote of 43 to 24 in favor of Gen. Crosby came after three hours of debate on legal questions relating to eligibility umder the law, with participants em- phasizing that they had no objection to the nominee personally. ‘The fight for confirmation of Gen. Crosby was led by Chairman Capper of the Senate District committee, sup- ported by speeches of Senators Vanden- berg, Republican, of Michigan, and Kean, Republican, of New Jersey. They laid stress on the opinion of the At- torney General in support of eligibility and on the report of a committee of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. Aside from the question of eligibility, there was brief discussion as to whether Gen. Crosby would draw both re- tired Army pay and the salary of Dis- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) GIRL, 7, BRAVES FLAMES TO SAVE BABY SISTERS Child Carries One to Safety, Then The art of terpsichore as ced by the Mayans must have beenmuemt moderns call “hot,” because the museum also has recelved several button-shaped Returns for Second, the Old- er, Only 4. By the Assoclated Press. SIOUX CITY, Iowa, April 10.—Two small daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Tanberg, Evelyn, 4, and Betty Jean, 2, owe their lives to their sister Dorothy, 17, who rescued them from their burning home last night. While Mrs. Tanberg drove the father to work, the fire started from a lighted copper bells with I for attac to eloz?aelrng and limbs for dnwlnl.hm' The Mayans were of a decoratic dis- tion. The museum has discovered several pottery stamps, like the modern ts | rubber stamps, which were used wit th tty pictures and such A / chgy blazing home for Evelyn, who still was grasping her baby doll. Radio Programs on Page D-6 !