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‘TINKHAM ATTAGKS DRY ORGANIZATIONS Charges Anti-Saloon League Has Violated Federal Cor- rupt Practices Act. By the Associated Press. Renewing organizations, Representative ham; Republican, Massachusetts, today charged before the Senate lobby com- mittee that the Anti-Saloon League had “fagrantly and audaciously” violated the Pederal corrupt practices act and that the Soythern Methodist Board of Temperence and Social Service had | “engaged in offensive and coercive lob- bying activities.” ‘Tinkham, a wet, demanded that these organizations, along with Bishop James Cannon, jr., chairman of the Methodist board, be investigated by the lobby committee. His testimony was com- pleted today. Previously, Tinkham had requested an investigation of the Board of Tem- perance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Northern Methodist Church and the Federal Council of Churches. All of the organizations will be given | an nity to reply to Tinkham. ‘The committee tomorrow will ques- | tion Henry H. Curran, president of the Association Against the Prohibition ‘Amendment. Saying the league had collected and expended $67,565,313 from 1883 to 1926, | inclusive, Tinkham testified that only “nominal returns” had been made to the clerk of the House of Representa« tives of the sums used for “political purposes.” Table Reveals Collections. The witness presented the committee with a table intended to show the money collected and expended by the National Anti-Saloon League and 37 State leagues from 1920 to 1925, in- clusive. ‘Total receipts were given as $13,116,- 433 and expenditures as $13,065,313. ‘The estimated figure for 1926 disburse- ments was $2,000,000. Tinkham charged that until 1920 the league made “no returns whatever” un- der the Federal corrupt practices act, which was passed in 1912. “The league and its State subsid- iaries are a political committee under the wording of the Federal corrupt practices act,” he continued, “and its activities come within the terms of the Federal corrupt practices act.” Benator Robinson, Republican, In- diana, asked Tinkham if he would ob- ject to the league using money to edu- cate people to enforce the law. . “I am for enforcement of the law, the witness replied. “I think the Anti- Saloon League should obey the corrupt practicies act.” He sald “large being raised by the league for political purposes, and read a letter sent out last June by Foster Copeland, chairman of a let committee, which appealed for contributions. ‘The money was to be used to “build a blic sentiment” in support of prohi- tion, the witness said, and specifically “to r‘ei-elict dry Congresses” and “a dry lent.” The letter said in the 1928 presiden- tial campaign “the man opposed to ibition was defeated and the can- didate who said ‘I wish it to succeed -mn?m the Southern Methodis! Board of Temperance and Social - jce, which he charged with engaging in “offensive and coercive lobbying activi- tles,” Tinkham read a letter he said had been written in 1926 by Bishop Cannon to Senator Curtis, now Vice President. ‘He described it as an “audacious, sec- tarian appeal.’ . eader, W] e ommvol of legislation in the Senate are for the country to under- stand that they are willing for Congress to adjourn without passing impor prohibition legislation.” Letter Sent to Senators. sihe Massachusetts Representative testified a similar letter was sent to w other Senators. said E. C. Jameson, Ne York capitalist, had contributed $172,000 to the Hoover ump;olxon m"l':zg. o; this, he testified, $65,300 wen! isho) The witness said there was no explanation of the contribution to Cannon, who was chairman of the anti~ Smith committee in Virginia in 1928. Tinkham said Jameson was the largest single contributor to the Hoover cam- fund and that the anti-Smith committee of Virginia had reported & donation of $17,000 from Jameson. J. E. Plerce, editor of the Huntsville, Ala,, Times, testified briefly concerning 1,000 check he had received in No- vember last year from J. W. Worthing- ton, chairman of the executive cormit- tee of the Tennessee River Improve- ment Association. ‘The witness ulg‘n'-hemcheck k‘u; {gr in mof e work o e wl-oehtinn, x;rgk:h has advocated the 1 of the American Cyanamid Co. to lease Muscle Shoals. Plerce said he came to Washington on November 11 and saw a number of Senators and Representatives in regard He prese from his newspaper which showed he had advocated private oper- ation of Muscle Schoals long before he Teceived the expensive check. “Have you expended the expense ac- count?” Chairman Caraway asked. “More than that,” Plerce said. ‘The witness added that he had re- ceived $500 for subscriptions to his newspaper, which were sent at Worth- ington’s direction to a list of persons, including the Senators and ta- tives from Alabama, Tennessee ahd Georgla. CURRAN DENIES LOBBYING. Letter to Caraway Declares His Assocl- ation Never Induiged in “Doubtful Luxury.” A denial that the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment had ever in the “doubtful luxury” g: 1 in Washington was coni in a letter to Chairman Caraway of the Senate lobby committee written and made blic today by its president, Henry H. Curran. Curran, who said he was writing while the committee investigator was “in the next room fishing in my letter file,” said he would gladly have ap- before the committee next Wed- but that he office “be idea their vaded and sums of money” were | { 2 X Top: GRIFFITH JOHNSON. Bottom: LOREN FREUND. -|BALTIMORE PASTOR IS UNDER FIRE FOR RAP AT CHAPLAINS (Continued From First Page.) Ainslie's was “one of the most mag- nificent and effective sermons offered in the entire noon-day Lenten program here this year.” Compliments Sermon. Dr. Ainslie began his sermon, accord- ing to Dr. Plerce, by quoting the state- ment of an eminent Jewish professor in & German university: “If the Jews killed Jesus, have the Christians ac- cepted him?” Developing this theme, Dr. Pierce said Dr. Ainslie delivered a sermon that was at once “beautiful, appropriate and effective.” Then, according to Dr. Pierce, Dr. Ainslie shifted his remarks to the war, putting the burden of the war upon Christian peoples who engaged in it, and upon the churches of those peoples. Continuing his war theme, however, Dr. Pierce said Dr. Ainslie started a vitriolic attack upon chaplains who “prayed that their soldiers might shoot straight and kill all the enemy possible.” Text of Letter. Dr. Pierce’s letter to Dr. Ainslie is as follows: “Dear Dr. Ainslie: “I cherish such high admiration for you personally and for your noble efforts to promote the spirit of religious unity that it grieves me to be compelled to differ from you and to feel that I must publicly protest against statements made publicly by you this day from my own pulpit at a union service here at the Nation’s Capital. Upon inquiry, I learn | that you have made these statements before. Therefore I write frankly. “In my judgment, you have insulted your country, insulted the churches of the United States and insulted en masse the chaplains of the Army and Navy. Was it because you were speaking in ‘Washington, coincident with the meet- ing of the D. A. R, with the chief of chaplains of the United States Army in uniform in your audience, and speak- ing from the pulpit of a brother minis- ter who served through the war, is now & reserve chaplain and is chairman of the general committee on Army and |lege Navy chaplains of the Pederal Council of Churches, that at a union Lenten service you forgot the usual courtesies and uttered statements which would have been bad enough if spoken from your own pulpit or at a public forum? “You stated that the World War was carried on by so-called Christian nations, that the responsibility for it therefore rested upon the Christian church and that churches and nations were indifferent and unconcerned with underlying questions of right or wrong, but were concerned solely and wholly with winning the war. Prayed and Fought. “That statement maligns the United States and our churches. We deplored the outbreak of the war, carefully weighed the questions of right and wrong, sought peaceable solution and were drawn into the war only when we believed that the central powers were wrong, the allled powers right, and the very existence of democratic gov- ernment was at stake. We did not want the war, did not start the war, ‘were powerless to prevent the war, but once drawn in, we prayed and fought for_victory and peace. “Your statement that so-called Chris- tian nations fought each other quite r:“'.the ns of right and im- ?mu, for defense or for protection of the r‘l’:l:tk' ': ,;léke wmxag.] You have no ore underlying moral and to fail to distinguish be- tween the will for peace which char- acterizes America and the will for war which has animated other parts of the world. “You referred to chaplains praying that their soldiers might shoot straight and kill all the enemy’ possible. My testime as the senior chapiain of the 2d Db n, A. E. F, is that I never ‘made and never heard such a prayer. Chaplains cared for the wounded and dying both of friend and foe. All Work for Peace. “I know & t number of chaplains of the Army, Navy, National Guard and Reserve Corps. For some years I was privileged to serve as president of their national organigation in succession to the late Bishop Charles H. Brent. I do not know of one who does not hate war, who does not hope for the outlawry | of war, who does not work and pray pesce. “It is this m_the Army or Nay; chaplain in a rpuk{ easy.’ “The unavoidable inference from such s statement is that the personnel of and Navy are engaged in so ir- an occupation as to put them | the pale of spiritual ministra- this_prof 80 little of their duties and of Wcmmmumm warfare, whether for of- | ing. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1930. PASTOR'S SON WINS [BAKER DEATH SPOT ORATORY GONTEST! IS BELIEVED FIXED Griffith Johnson, 17, to Rep-!Keys of Murder Auto Are resent Central High School in Finals. Composed and unhurried, Griffith Johnson, 17-year-old n:qd:w of the pastor Natlonal ric Always in control of himself, the win- ner gave evidence of considerable ex- lence and oratorical ability, extemporaneous efforts. In minute prepared speech, he the tracked wilderness, and spes temporaneously he pointed to the same spirit leading the way to world brother- hood, peace and union. Young Johnson is one of the out- standing students at Central. 1929 he was. ident of the local chapter of the National Honor Soclety, and is now president of his ditor-in-chief of the school paper and treasurer of the senior council. He will be graduated in June of this year. Three In Contest. Only three contestants took part in the tilt this morning and all of them were boys. Authorities of the school had previously narrowed down the field by selecting the orators showing the greatest promise. By virtue of his victory, Johnson be- comes a contestant in The Star area finals and also will receive a prize of 100 which goes to each of the local high school winners. Since there were but three speakers, the nmame of the boy placing second was not announced. ‘The speakers and the subjects of their prepared and extemporaneous orations follow: Johnson, “The Constitution: a Symbol of the American Spirit” and “The American Spirit in Relation to Present-Day Obstacles to World Union”; Earl G. Kernahan, 16 years old, “Lin- coln and the Constitution” and “The War Powers Assumed by Lincoln,” Arthur B. Smith, 17 years old, “The Constitution of the United States as a Model for the Government of & Future World Union” and “The Evolution of the Idea of World Union.” Two Ministers’ Sons. Strangely, both Johnson and Kerna- han are sons of ministers. The latter's father is Rev. Dr. A. Earl Kernahan, who at present is conducting an evangelical visitation campaign Washington. Following his graduation in June young Kernahan intends to matriculate at American University and eventually to enter the ministry. John- son is undecided on the profession he wishes to follow. Smith is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur K. Smith of 3021 Fifteenth street. As are the others, he is a senior. The contest was held in the school auditorium before the entire student body. Pflnl:lgll A. Smith pre- sided and introduced speakers. The judges were Prof. W. Hayes Yhe:lxr!l;.,‘ mn:,pulcm of the ne'iy created cl speaking at George Wl&hlngwn:unlversl!y; P!uL Charles C. Tansill of American University, and Paul E. Lesh, local attorney. The selection of the central repre- sentative in The Star area final leaves only Business among the Washington high schools to choose its speaker. All the other schools have staged their final eliminations. Loren Freund Wins. The first of the interschool oratori- cal contests of the privgie and parochial district was held wa{;:;moon at Catholic University, and Freund, 18-year-old Gonzaga Oollege senior, emerged the winner. Liberty and respect for authority are the keynotes of the Constitution, he told an audience of Catholic University students in & clear, powerful and res- onant voice that last year won him the right to represent his school in the contest. At that time he was prevented from competing by iliness. Yesterday he used metaphor and sim- ile in_the development of his subject, “The Foundations of the Constitution.” B e o o Mmticn from Gonzaga low! gradual om in June expects to take up the study of medicine. Students of logic, history and public speaking classes of the university acted as judges. Freund was the overwhelm- ing choice for first place, while Philip Hanan, 16 years old, of St. John's Col- School, was selected as alter- nate in case should be unable to appear 1af spoke on “The Constitution; World Pecace.” Other rs were Helen Cogan, 18 years old, of the Immaculate Concep- tion Academy, who spoke on the “Con- stitution the Importance of Pre- lervin’ 1It,” and Marie McCray, 17 years old, of St. Cecilia’s Academy, who dis- cussed “The Citizen: His Privileges and Duties Under the Constitution.” St. John's College, the school re&re- sented by the alternate in yester J,': contest, furnished the winner of finals for the entire Star area last year. Rev. Charles Hart Presides. Rev. Charles Hart, Catholic Univer- sity professor of logic, presided. He said the National Oratorical Contest is making the hgo‘:: school students of the country “Constitution lous,” and lauded The Star for sponsoring it Gaston Hall of sity, with Rev. John J. e Sotiety. oldest “u'::é debat- demic ' col ing club in United States, will act schools, scheduled to 3] Wi rashington Unit ' %‘5«: third mum{lc;sr in the group— eclared winner by default. He is ald Hubbard and is 19 yaers old. He lly attains a con- testant in the finals for the rochial district. g. wlnlll are the Landon School for ra Boys and Devitt Preparatory School. fession as of no more justification than chaplaincy of a speakeasyl Need Army and Navy. “Until there is more insight, more sound judgment and more careful ut- Americans we cannot of men which you | we 1 fll»lh ptist speeches laf Ty and Miss mrade. y | crime, Inspector William homicide squad to work Department of Justice wing their possession, During | ends, class, men. He | then Found—Two Men Are Questioned. (Continued From First Page.) 2w helr alain Every scintilla of information, to have & it estigations. The ties, however, feel that the corre - Tliers, may. ultimately eld the siages TS, mi d the slayer of Miss Bt.k.’ er. v o 8o thorough is the investigation be- ing conduct that potential suicide case reported to headquarters was sub- Jected to more than the usual check up, the authorities believing that there may have been some connection be- tween the man who threatened to end his life and the Baker murder case. Another report that & man had been seen in Washington wearing a blood- stained shirt, also led to a careful in- quiry which carried the detectives, De- partment of Justice agents and Gloth to an apartment in the fashionable Dupont Circle section. The man proved conclusively, however, that the blood- stains on his shirt were caused by an automobile accident several days ago. Despite the myriad of tangible leads upon which the investigators have had to work, the actual motive for the crime has not yet been definitely de- termined. The authorities, however, are certain they nave definitely punctured the flwagw'ihn Miss Baker was assault- ed and on Alexandria avenue, on the outskirts of Rosslyn, and her body carried from there to the culvert near Sheridan gate to Arlington Cemetery. This theory was based on stories told by Mrs. B. L. Collins, who lives at the corner of Alexandria avenue and Albe- marle street, to the effect that she had heard the screams of a woman Friday night—the night Miss Baker was mur- dered—and had observed a woman leap from a parked car and run across the front lawn of & house at 1516 Alexan- dria avenue. The police definitely cor- roborated Mrs. Collins’ story, but at the same time learned that the girl who screamed and jumped from the machine was not Miss Baker. ‘The investigation of this angle of the case has produced the girl who did the screaming, a8 young Washington woman who had gone riding into the lonely sections of Virginia and was ordered to walk home. According to her story she and another girl friend were picked up in Washington by two stronge men who drove across Key Bridge and over some of Arlington County's back roads, final- ly parking in the vicinity of the Collins home. Here the men “got fresh,” the investigators were told, and when the girls resented their unwelcome atten- tions they were told to get out of the machine, which they did. One of the men, however, whom the girl said, had been drinking, followed her and the other girl for & short distance and gral her in an effort to force her back into the machine d she screamed and ran across the lawn of the house at 1516 Alexandria avenue. Passing Motorist Attracted. reams attracted a passing mo- torist, according to the girl's story, and when he approached the two men who had taken them into Virginia they drove away. This man told the girls he would take them back into Wash- ington, but did not want to be seen picking up strange women, since he was married, and suggested that they walk to a corner and that he would re- turn and get them. ‘When the man returned, however, he found only one of the girls waiting on designated corner. He learned the machine which brought the two girls into Virginia had returned in his ab- sence and the other girl had got back into the car and went off with the two ‘The accommodating motorist brought the other girl into George- ‘The police believe ‘The town and left her. the story. Robbery Theory Abandoned. One of the major questions puzzling the investigators is the motive for the crime, The robbery theory has been completely abandoned, and so has the theory that Miss Baker may have been held up by a stranger either where her machine was parked at Seventeenth and B streets or en route to her home in Lyon Park and forced, at the point of a gun, to & secluded spot in Arling- ton_County. The murder, in the opinion of the officials, was committed by some one whom Miss Baker had trusted implicitly and in whom she held no fear. For this reason, they believe, she accom- panied her slayer on the fatal ride into Arlington County, and when she re- gented his amorous advances, he choked her into inscnsibility and subsequently killed her to seal forever her lips as to his act. This , according to the police, rted by the fact that a I'Xl%g could not have been waiting in Baker's car, parked at Seveneenth and B streets, as she always kept the doors locked. And even had an unknown man jumped into the machine when she opened the doors she probably would have made an outcry which would have attracted the attention of scores of persons who were watching & base ball game on the Monument Grounds, in the vicinity of the parked car. The police do not doubt the re- ports that a man and a woman were seen in a car answering the description DY ite, bu ey point ou e % ‘not violent enough to attract the attention of pu!ow ns on the Monument Gronuds nearby. ‘The police are certain that Miss Baker did not return home Priday before she was murdered, thus eliminating the pos- sibility that she may have been held up en route to Lyon Park or while returning to Washington. They have not yet de- termined, however, whether the gun with which she was shot to death was her own, or Whether it was carried by her slayer. This is one of the ques- tions the police want to clear up in their interrogation of the m: two friends and housemates on return from Oak Grove. May Have Carried Weapon. WHERE MARY BAKER NOW IS BELIEVED TO HAVE DIED Miss Baker, and the officials are con- fident that the photograph was lost by the same woman who owned the hat. This photograph was taken in front of the Lincoln Memorial, and the police are confident that it was lost by a sightseer. Military officials of Fort Myer still are conducting a quiet search of their own for the girl's clothing and the mur- derer's gun. Woods of Arlington and Fort Myer reservations near the culvert where the body was found are being thoroughly combed by soldiers. Under jon of military po- lice, more than 40 soldiers combed the woods for traces of the clothing and the weapon. It is believed the slayer cast the gun aside when he fled. The search, however, falled to reveal the articles. Several stones, crusted with blood. were discovered approximately 200 yards north of the spot where Miss Baker's car was abandoned, on a small by-road. The road is often traversed by cavalry, however, and it is possible that the stains may have come from the cut foot of a horse. The stones have been turned over to Arlington police for analysis of the blood. Belleving the murderer, after aban- doning the automobile, might have boarded a street car nearby for Wash- ington, investigators yesterday ques- tioned crews of all cars that passed in the vicinity PFriday night between 7 o'clock and 12 o'clock. There are three car stops in the vicinity, but they are situated in places populated only by colored people and the car crews ex- pressed the belief that they would have observed and remembered boarding of a car by a white man. They all de- clared that no white man had boarded any car in the vicinity. HOOVER GREETS PRESS IN REBUILT OFFICES President Says He Expects to Be More Comfortable in Per- manent Suite. By the Assoclated Press. . In a somewhat husky voice, but with a smile, President Hoover today wel- comed the newspaper men back to the reconstructed White House offices. He said that there they would be more comfortable. “And so will 1” he added. The President’s offices were moved from the temporary quarters in the old State, War and Navy Building only yesterday, the executive offices having been under repair since the fire Christ- mas eve. Remarking that the number of re- K‘fl' present today for the regular esday noon press conference was small, the Chief Executive added that 80 was the news. “In fact, not any,” he commented. INCREASES CAMP FORCE irginia | War Department Sends 710 Men to Fort Humphreys. To provide more troops for the Engl- neer_School at Fort the War it has in mn%ho( 13th Engineers, at that post, to 710 men by the addition of 216 selected from the 1st En at Benning, Squadron, at Riley, Kans., | been BAKER GIRL’S FUNERAL SERVICES AT OAK GROVE, IN HER FATHER’S CHURCH (Continued From First Page.) church there were more than 70 cars during the se: 3 Friends of the Baker family, drawn from Oak Grove and surrounding com- munity, were active pallbearers. They were Freeland Mason, James Latane, F. Candler, T. R. Jackson, Frank Stiff and a Mr. Wharton. At _the head of this m.lig who bore the flag-draped casket, walked the girl friends of Miss Baker by fours, wear- ing the smart uniforms of yeomanettes, who served in the Navy during the ‘World War. The United States flag and the standard of the American Legion Post were raised at the right and left of the church entrance as the casket was brougit out. A few minutes later the standard: again were in evidence at the grave. Miss Baker was buried in the extreme northeast corner of a plot reserved for the families of Episcopalian rectors. Her freshly turned grave was the first to have been dug in the plot since 1906, when Rev. Willlam Catesby Latane, for more than 30 years rector of Washing- ton parish, which includes Oak Grove, was buried there. Only the members of 3e immediate family and the inti- maf Mrs. Baker appeared on the point of collapse, and was assisted throughout the funeral services by her husband and the oldest son, Charles, who stayed at her side. ‘The gruesome aspect of Miss Baker’s death was not touched on at all today, either in connection with the services or in the conversations of those who attended. Several persons, whispering among themselves before the barty reached the church, asked for “latest developments,” but all seemed inclined to disregard for the time the thought that the girl was murdered. So far as was known, no one representing the Department of Justice attended the services, and Charles Baker said, in reply to questions, that neither he nor his father have been in communication with police today. ——— ARMY CHANGES LISTED Lieut. Col. Hodges to Be Retired. Transfers Ordered. Lieut. Col. Carroll B. Hodges, Infan- try, at St. Louis, has been ordered to report to the Army retiring board in that city; Maj. E. L. Franklin, 2d Cavalry, has been transferred from Fort Riley, Kans, to Hawali; Capt. H. H. Cloud, Infantry, from Fort jamin - to Philadelphia; Capt. M. W. Ransome, Medical 80@:, from Fort Eustis, Va, to Hawali; Capt. Earl A. Field Artillery, from Kansas City, Mo., to the Panama Oanal Zone; Capt. H. N. Scales, Infantry, from Fort Benning, Ga., to the Philippines; Capt. TFleld Artillery, from Fort Humphreys, Va., | Ethan purul!d the accept eer personnel at Fort McIn- ! Master Sergt. Willlam E. Mapes, who Engin , Tex. With the recent completion | has been on duty in the office of the |- the new eom{nny barracks at Fort | chief of Coast Artillery, has been placed Humphreys ample accommodations &re |on the Army retired avallable for the additional troops ‘ar- | application after: more than dered there. . 'active service. & list on his own 30 years’ friends traveled to the cemetery. | ing GRL'S FRIENDS SCOFF AT “AFFAR" - Declare Miss Baker Had No Idea of Meeting Man Who Murdered Her. BY GRETCHEN 8. SMITH. When Mary Baker closed her desk at the Bureau of Aeronautics Friday for the last time in her life, she did so without the slightest idea of meeting the man who several hours later is believed to have lured her to the lonely spot of her brutal murder. This is the opinion of all those who worked with her in the department and who for the past eight 's have learned to know and love the ttle Virginia girl to a greater extent than is usually found among persons who meet in the world of business. On all sides, from all those who knew her, one hears the same remark: “Mary was one of the most lovable girls in the bureau. She was always bright and happy, and one rarely saw her without a smile on her face.” “Mary was one of the most depend- able girls in the office,” declared Mrs. Hoyt, chief clerk of the filing division, where Miss Baker had worked. “That is one reason I am cosvinced she had made no appointment to meet any one but her girl friends when she left the office Priday evening. She always did just as she said she would do and was not the sort of girl who would have left her friends waiting for her. I do not think she had the slightest idea of meeting the person who murdered her. And poor little Mary could not have had a chance with the flend who committed the deed. She was so tiny that one could scarcely see her head over the filing cabinets. And she hard- ly weighed a hundred pounds! She would have been helpless against the strength of any man.” Happy Over New Home. Above: The secluded spot among the trees lining the road into the Depart- ment of Agriculture experimen rm where the keys to Mary Baker’s auto- mobile and home were found. Center: The reservoir on the farm, which will be drained in the search for the gun with which she was killed. Lower left: David A. Richmond, who found the keys. Lower right: Joseph L. Rhodes, who found the handkerchief and doctor's bill. —Star Staff Photos. OIL PERMIT CASE LOST BY WILBUR Decision Directs Secretary to Reinstate Three Applications. Declaring that no power resides in either the executive or judicial branches of the Government to sus- pend or dispense with the execution, administration and enforcement of a constitutionally enacted law of the Congress, Justice Frederick L. Siddons | of the District of Columbia Supreme Court today directed that Ray Lymean ; | Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, re- instate three applications for ofl and gas permits and accept an application of W. B. Pyron of Los Angeles for a permit. The justice approves the recent find- ing of his associate, Justice Jennings Balley, who took similar action in four other cases which were heard by him. The Department of the Interior has appealed in the cases decided by Jus- tice Bailey and is expected to take similar action in these cases. Full Jurisdiction Denied. The court's decision is adverse to the claims of Secretary Wilbur that he has full jurisdiction to act in the matter of all applications for gas and oil per- mits on public land and that in reject- pending applications and refusing to accept others he was acting in con- formity with the expressed intention of President Hoover for oil conservation. ‘The three applications ordered to be reinstated were made by George G. Retherford and Ethel M. McLennan of gll:l‘urnll and by R. L. Paris of Artesia, . Mex. Concurs in Conclusions. Justice Siddons refers to the Bailey decision and declares he “concurs both in its reasoning and in the conclusions reached by the learned justice,” and in rendering his opinion desires to empha- size certain phases of the matter. He points out regulations made by Wilbur sh that the purpose of the act was “to the end that the best development of the lands, both for mineral and agricultural purposes, may be accom- plished” and in which the Secretary construes the purpose of the legislation to be the full development of the min- eral resources. “The duty of executing the pro- visions of this act,” says Justice Sid- dons, “is conferred upon the Secretary of the Interlor, and nowhere in the act, in the opinion of the court. is any power to suspend its operation or dis- pense with its execution conferred upon him.” Lindberghs Plan Coast-to-Coast Hop, Publisher Says By the Associated Press. WICHITA, Kans, April 15— Marcellus M. Murdock, publisher le and aviation Charles him flig] speed and altitude as objectives. Col. Lindbergh said he would stop there to service his plane, ac- cording to Mr. Murdock, and would attempt to make the trip in as few hours as possible, at the temm time making altitude at- That Mary was untroubled by an “affair” of any sort is also emphaticaliy claimed by her legion of friends. *For the past three weeks she was so happy over the new little home in Lyon Vil- lage,” Mrs. Hoyt further declared. “She was always speaking about their new home and the way she and her two friends were managing it. Last week she came in so pleased over a new bed- spread she had bought for her room.” ‘That Mary Baker's interests were centered about such finer things 0s her church, her family and her home life is the information given by all those who knew her best. Although a member and regular at- tendant of the Epiphany Episcopal Church, Miss Baker was also one of the most conscientious attendants of the Burrell class conducted weekly by Mrs. W. S. Abernethy, wife of the Calvary Baptist Church minister. “Miss Baker attended my wife's classes reiul-rly," declared Dr. Abernethy, “and only the other day Mrs. Abernethy re- marked that Miss Baker had only missed two Sundays in three months.” ‘Was Fond of Excursions. It is quite possible that Mary Baker's | mysterious acquaintance, who met her 80 unexpectedly and either coerced her or induced her to ride with him into Virginia, may have been some one she had met on the frequent short trips which, her friends reveal, were of great- est delight to her whenever she had the opportunity to take them. “Mary was very fond of excursions,” said Mrs. Hoyt. “She loved to see the country. As she felt she could not af- ford to travel she frequently would go on the special rate excursion trips held between Washington and cther citieg, I know that within the past few years she has taken one of these excursions to Niagara Falls, New York, and once to Boston. During her vacations I think she usually visited her relatives either in Virginia or South Carolina.” All of her friends, without exception, | scoff at the idea of Mary having had any serious “affairs” with men. “Why | Mary Baker was the last girl on earth to have had affairs,” declared another of her friends. he was pleasant to every one and had one of the frank- est, most likeable natures, I ever knew.” ‘Anything good that you can say about Mary Baker is not too good for her,” volunteered a woman friend of Miss Baker, who has been closely affili- ated with her in her work for the past | eight years. e {SITE FOR SAMITARIUM SOUGHT IN SUBURBS Senate Asked to Concur in House Action Placing Tuberculosis In- stitution Qutside District. Following the action of the House yesterday in passing the Senate bill au- thorizing construction of a sanitarium for tuberculous children of this city, at & cost of $615,000, Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, chairman of the children’s sanitarium committee, today explained that it now remained only for the Senate to con- cur in a House amendment which makes it permissible to locate the institution outside the District of Columbia. The amendment was requested by the Commissioners upon recommendation of Assistant Engineer Commissioner At~ kins after study of the matter. The Senate is expected to concur in the House amendment. “This prompt and favorable action of the House is a matter of sincere jcy and gratitude to all of those public of- ficials and health workers who for sev- eral years past have been trying to arose public opinion for this greatly needed children’s sanitarium.” Active members of this committee are: Health Officer Fowler, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of public schools and president of the Monday Evening Club; Dr. J. W. Peabody, superintend- ent of the Tuberculosis Hospital; rector of Public Welfare Wilson, Dr. Joseph Rogers, president of Casualty Hospital; Dr. D. Percy Hickling, District alienist; Dr. F. C. Smith, assistant sur- geon general of the United States Pub- lic Health Service, and Dr. George M. Kober, president of the Tuberculosis Association. . — e = Greek Steamer Crew Detained. GULFPORT, Miss, April 15 (#)— The crew of 16 aboard the Greek steamer Maratho, arriving in Gulfport Sunday, were detained yesterday to him through the Imm! by authorities at Mobile, Al Houston, Tex. vised of the purposs o the Gprerament of e vernment in having the crew detained. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, this evening at Stanley Hall, at 5:30 o'clock. John 8. M. Zim- mermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant leader. March, “On the Go”. , “The a) “Andalouse,” Pessard (b) “Moorish Serenade,” Chapl ‘The Show ...Kerns McHugh the Worlfl Like You, “Let, the End of Oom.nmq‘ompm >, .. % Pinale,