Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1930, Page 17

WASHINGTO. SEPTEMBER 17, 1930. DR. WALSH HOLDS GERMAN ELECTIONS MENACE T0 PEACE Predicts Fascists Will Repu- diate Versailles Treaty and Compel Military Intervention. COMING YEAR DEMANDS BROAD STATESMANSHIP‘ Charges Russia Is Using Virtual “Slave Labor” to Speed Up Exports. Dr. Edmund A. Walsh, S. J, vice president of Georgetown University and regent of the School of Foreign Service, has returned to Washington from a three-month stay in Europe, where he watched events leading to the recent German elections, the outcome of which, in his opinion, constitute a menace to| European peace. ‘With what he termed “hot extremists” now in control of the right and left| wings of the Reichstag, Dr. Walsh ex-| pressed the opinion that Sunday's elec- ¢ tions jeopardized Germany's present form of republicanism. “Whatever happens in Germany is of tremendous importance to Europe,” he sald in pointing out that the public temper in Italy, France and England gives emphasis to the impression of ob- servers that the coming year will de- mand cool heads and a broad, under- standing statesmanship if peace in Europe is to prevail. Fascists Make Gains. Dr. Walsh called attention to the as- tonishing gains made by the Fascists in Germany and predicted that if that party ultimately prevailed, there would be repudiation of the Versailles treaty, discontinuance of reparation payments and other happenings which would com- pel military intervention by the allied powers. During his stay in Europe Dr. Walsh visited all the centers of international activities and brought back with him detailed reports from several countries of recent Soviet activities. He made a special study, in preparation for his Winter lectures on Russia, of the charges that the Soviet government is using what is practically “slave labor” to speed up its exports in pursugnce of “dumping” products in capitalistic countires to unsettle markets and fo- ment discord. These reports he is now analyzing. ‘While in Rome Dr. Walsh had a long the occasion to discredit reports of the Pontifi’s Tumored illness. Dr. Walsh was one of the leaders in the recent not wander too far from the family tree. ‘This is what happened, however, as one lieving him from duty in Nicaragua to church settlement in Mexico, and while in Europe this Summer he continued his investigations of religious persecu- tion on the part of the Soviet govern- ment. The dangers to European tran- quillity which he observed in Europe also were seem- ites to the League of Nations, Dr.Walsh intimated. Dangers Have Multiplied. “During my stay in Geneva,” he said, “the delegates were beginning to amrive for the annual meeting of the League. If one may hazard a generalization, the atmosphere in which the League would convene this year was heavy with pes- simism and apprehension. The danger spots in European relations have not‘ died, but have multiplied. “A general nervousness Was apparent in the press of the respective capitals and naturally was being communicated to the focal points where national grievances and clashing policies are now so freely discussed, much more frankly than ever before. ~Observing the public temper in Italy, France, Ger- many and England, one felt that the coming year will make heavy demands for cool heads’ steady hands and & broad, or statesmanship, if peace is 10 all. : “The results of the German elections last Sunday can hardly have comforted those charged with the peace of Europe. ‘The astounding increase in the strength of the Fascist party reveals the ground- swell of nationalism breaking through the crust of German politics. While advocating certain radical reforms that closely resemble Communist economics, this national Socialist party stands at the opposite pole from the interna- tionalism of communism, which made notable progress also. Extreme Chauvinism, “The Fascists stand for extreme chauvinism and pledge themselves to create a purely German state, under dictatorship, and professing such soc ist principies as would annul the pres- ent form of republicanism in Germany. With hot extremists now in control of the Left and Right wings in the Reichs- tag, it would be idle to deny that the present political structure of the Ger- man state is in jeopardy. And what- even happens in Germany is of tremen- dous importance to Europe. “Should the Fascists ultimately pre- vail, the treaty of Versailles would be repudiated, the Anschluss (unification of Germany and Austria into a pan- Germany) would be consummated, Ger- man colonies would be demanded back from the victorious allies, reparation payments discontinued and Jews dis- enfranchised or expelled. Such a com- plete scrapping of existing treaty obli- gations could only lead to military in- tervention by the allied powers. Should Communism continue to increase and ultimately prevail, which is a less prob- able hypothesis, it would mean a Bol- shevized Germany and & new red tewor. Sees Formidable Bloc. “Should the two exponents of direct action, Fascism and Communism, bine in & truce made possible mon hatred of the bourgeois republic, they would constitute even now a for- midable bloc that might render impotent the best efforts ~ eny coalition of moderates. ‘The bewildering number of parties now represented in the Reich- stag. and the consequent difficulties for 8 government to command a majority sufficient to guarantee law and order, help to reconcile one to the cocasional evils incident to the two-party system.” Dr. Walsh said he had brought back a complete Tecord of the Lena gold flelds case which was being tried in London during his stay there, “Having obligated itself to abide by & contract with this mining corporation supported by English and American capitalists, and after agreeing to arbi- tration proceedings,” he sald, ‘the So- viet government has now répudiated the award made by the neutral arbi- trator and refuses to “bide by the de- cision. ‘The court awarded Lena £13.- 000,000 (about $65,000,000), but was answered by the Soviet government with a contemptuous statement which practically invites Lena to collect it if they can. Attitude Not Surprising. «This characteristic attitude, though coming as a severe shock to the super- report for duty in Washington, Patsy and Miml were obliged to leave a beau- tiful macaw and a cage full of para- keets behind, but nothing could have parted Patsy from Coco. In fact, noth- ing could have parted Coco from any member of the Hall family. Placed in a large parrot cage, the little fellow was taken aboard carried him and Coco has developed a strong liking for sweet tooth. When his little mistress sweeten it with sufficient sugar, no one | | Mimi and Patsy Hall, daughters of f Capt. and Mrs. William Carvel Hall, giving Coco a taste of candy. The Nicaraguan monkey is being held by Miss Patsy. S T PHoR. Monkey Scorns Food of Jungle For U. S. Cereals Pet of Marine Officer’s| Children Indulges Sweet Tooth. BY GRETCHEN SMITH. No emigrant ever adapted himself so | quickly to American standards of living as the tiny allen who recently arrived in the Burleith residential section, causing much hilarity among the chil- | dren of the neighborhood by his strange | chatter and queer little face, but quick- iy winning their hearts by his playful- ness and friendly manners. A little more than a year ago “Coco” was climbing trees and eating bananas in the jungles of Nicaragua. His Si- mian_mother must have been careless, for Coco was but a baby and should have been watched to see that he did fine day Coco lost his way in the jungle and he was found by a Marine, who carried him to the quarters of Capt. William Carvel Hall at Puerto Cabezas, where the captain recently had been joined by Mrs. Hall and his two little daughters Petsy and Mimi. Perhaps, thought the Marine, the captain’s little girls would like Coco as a pet. ‘When Capt. Hall received orders re- the steamer which his family to New Orleans. Since his arrival in the United States, American foods, his real weakness being cereals and milk with plenty of sugar. Yes, Coco certainly was born with a prepares his cereal, should she neglect to can look more unhappy than Coco, who grumbles and chatters until they pass him the sugar bowl. ~ Grapes and apples, and all the fruits which could never grow in a tropical jungle, are the foods Coco likes best. He hates benanas, which goes to prove they must have been the principal form | of diet in the jungle. Coco, who was named for the Coco | river, where Capt. Hall was stationed for some time, now lives in his own little house in the back yard of the Halls’ home, 3625 T street. i e S WOMAN HURT IN TEST FOR DRIVER’S PERMIT Mrs. Maude R. Poe Suffers Frac- tured Arm in Collision With Car on D. Btreet. Mrs. Maude R. Poe, 40 years old, of 526 Ninth street southwest, was injured while driving to qualify for an oper- ator's permit yesterday when the auto- mobile in which she was taking the test collided with a Washington Railway & Electric Co. street car at John Marsh- all place and D street. > Mrs. Poe was taken to Emergency Hospital and treated for a fracture of the Traffic Bureau, who was conducting the test, was uninjured. Traffic accidents took only one other casualty during the day, Shirley Hay- man, a colored pedesirian of 1219 Twenty-fifth street, suffering a fractured left leg when he walked from behind a parked car on Twentieth street and was knocked down by a machine op- erated by John F. Perry of 2213 Fourth street northeast. BLIND MAN TO SPEAK Man Who Trains Dogs as Guides ‘Will Address Local Association. Morris S. Frank, director of a school for the instruction of dogs as guides for the blind, will address the District of Columbia Association of Workers for the Blind at 8 o'clock tomorrow night in the Henry and Annie Hurt Home for the Blind, 3050 R street. Mr. Frank, himself a biind man, will be introduced by B. L. Prisbie of the Library of Congress, president of the assoclation. Mr. Frank arrived today from Nashville, Tenn., where his school for dogs is located. the Soviet constitution and was advo- cated by Lenin himself in 1922, Another significant development is the rapidly increasing number of Soviet officials and representatives who have deserted the cause and refused to re- turn to Moscow, where death sentences awaited them. In fact, a club has been organized in Berlin composed exclu- sively of such well informed refugees, “Here n the United States we have & notable example in the case of Mr. Delgass, formerly vice president of the Amtorg Trading Corporation of New York. Mr, Delgass has followed the example of Bessedovsky in Paris and revealed the hidden activities of Rus- sian trading corporations and the pres- sure exerted on American business men to force recognition from the State De- partment. “If certain United States Senators who make flying visits to Moscow un- der Soviet guidance would inform them- opti who have been urging in- fl?:a:‘e‘sutrm relations with Soviet Russia, can surprise no one familiar with bolshevik principles and practice. Such procedure is provided for in selves of the facts in the case they would not permit themselves the ex- the arm. Pvt. Willlam H. Hinson of |y, ‘SCHOOL OPENING TOBREAKRECORD Enroliment Planned With Im- portant Teacher Prelimi- naries Friday. With record-smashing rosters in pros- | pect. officials today prepared for the opening of the public schools Mon- day. Important preliminary matters will be discussed at meetings of teach- ers with their supervising principals Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock. Instructors of division 1 will meet in the Curtis School; division 3, in the Raymond School; division 5, in the Langley Junior High School; division 6, in the Wheatley School; division 7, in the Bryan School; division 9, in the Franklin administration building; divi- sion 10, in the Morgan School; division 11, in the Cleveland School, and divi- sion 13, in the New Bell School. Teachers of the teachers’ colleges, senjfor and junior high schools will gather at the same hour in their schools. The assistant superintendent in charge of supervision of grades one to six of the white institutons will conduct & meeting of new teachers of grades one to four in the Franklin Ad- ministration Building at 2:30 p.m. Fri- day. The director of primary instruc- tion will meet new teachers of grades one to four in the colored schools at the Miner Teachers' College at 1:15 o'clock. v Meetings With Directors. - Directors of special subjects will meet their teachers at 10:30 a.m. Friday under the following schedule: Domestic science, white schools, Den- nison Building; household arts, colored schools, Berret School; domestic art, white schools, Dennison Bullding; draw- ing, white schools, old Adams School; drawing, colored schools, Berret School; manual training, white schools, Frank- lin Administration Building, and col- ored schools, Berret School; physical training, white schools, old Adams, and colored schools, Berret; nature study, white schools, old Adams, and colored schools, Berret; music, white schools, old Adams, and colored, Berret. Directors of kindergartens will meet their teachers at 2:30 p.m. Friday, white teachers assembling at the Thom- son School and colored at the Cleve- land. Pris of the vocational schools will et their teachers in their respective bulldings at 10:30 a.m. Meanwhile, about 200 prospective high school students had applied for enrollment to the Senior High School Board of Admissions in the Franklin Administration Bullding today, indicat- ing last year's total of 450 would be exceeded. Admission Board Session. ‘The Board of Admissions, composed of representatives of each of the hmh schools, will remain in session through- out today and tomorrow, while exami- nations will be administered Friday to a gfl::flnu unable to show proof of eli- Y. The board has accepted credentials from recognized high schools in the vicinity of Washington with greater dispatch this year than In previous years, thus limiting at the outset the potential examination list. Members of the board: W. P. Hay of McKinley High School, chairman; Miss M. C. Hawes, head of the Latin department in the high schools, secre- tary; Miss Dorothea Sherman, Central; iss J. B. Edmonston, Western; Dr. J. B. Holmes, Eastern, and Dr. A. L. How- ard, Business. A meeting of the board of Education scheduled for this afternoon was called when it became apparent too many members were absent from the city to enable a quorum to be present. The n‘l::;lng probably will be held Friday in- stead. —— CHINESE FOILS BURGLAR Screams Rout Man Who Had Slug- ged Intended Victim With Gun. Lee Ping, f75-year-old Chinese mer- chant, foiled the attempt of an un- identified man to burglarize his place of business last night when he screamed for assistance after being slugged on the head with & revolver at his store, in the 300 block of Pennsylvania avenue, The man was frightened by Ping's screams and fled without obtaining any money. Ping was taken to Emergency Hospital. 25 Beetle Law Violations Get an Express Co. Fined Charged with 25 violations of the law made to combat the ;greld of the Japanese beetle, in the District, the Railway Express Agency, Inc, drew fines totaling $250 in Police Court today. The violations, according to Judge Gus A. Schuldt, are the first case of its kind in the Dis- trict. Plants were shipped into the city from a widely scattered area, the violations of the quar- antine having been going on since May. Japanese beetle larvae were discovered in several instances, according to testimony. Company representatives plead- ed guilty to all of the counts. They told Judge Schuldt that thelr agents were either ignorant of the law or careless. The Gov- ernment was represented in the cases by Assistant United States travagant statements attzibuted to them in the public prints.” Attorney Rebekah 8. Greathouse. STATE, WAR, NAVY BUILDING CHANGE PLANS APPROVED Program Designed to Beauti- fy White House “Frame” Is Initiated. [ TREASURY STRUCTURE ALSO TO BE AFFECTED “Sunken Garden” Will Be Remov- ed and Entrance Put on Street Level. The Fine Arts Commission moved yesterday to initiate actively a program designed to create a suitable frame for the White House, in approving plans for the alteration of the State, War and Navy Building, so that it will conform architecturally to the north end of the Treasury Department Building. ‘The commission was in conference with Secretary Mellon, Assistant Sec- retary Ferry K. Heath, and Waddy Wood, Washington architect, with refer- ence to the whole program. $3,000,000 Is Available. Congress has appropriated $3,000,000 for the remodeling of the State, War and Navy Bullding and it is hoped that active work on this will be commenced during the current fiscal year. Working drawings of the changes proposed will be made and a model constructed, showing the Pennsylvania avenue side of the renovated structure with rela- tion to the side of the building. ‘The “Sunken garden” effect north of the Treasury Bullding and north of the State, War and Navy Building will be abolished under the renovation program. Entrances from the north will be made s0 as to approximate the street level. ‘The space beneath the new height north of the Treasury Building, will be utilized by building subterranean rooms, which will be utilized for the expanding busi- ness of the department. Final plans for this phase of the program remain to be decided. Moore Explains History. Charles Moore, chairman of the Pine Arts Commission, explained today that the State, War and Navy Building was constructed during President Grant’s administration and it was bullt hastily to forestall the movement of the Na- tional Government to St. Louis. By this move, Mr. Moore exp! , Washington served notice to its western friends that the Capital of the country was not going to_be taken from here. , “is a mighty good plece of construction, but a mighty bad design.” Mr, Moore pointed out that in de- ciding to remodel the State, War and Navy Bullding Washington is deter- mined on following the style of archi- ‘ashington Bullding, | the Federal-American Bank at Four- tecture chosen by George Wi and Thomas Jefferson and based on classical precedence, and any departure from this, he said, has been detrimental. ‘The virtue of this architecture, Mr. Moore sald, “is its flexibility in the hands of artist.” HEALTH INSTITUTE GETS FELLOWSHIP Chemical Foundation of New York Gives $100,000 for Research Work. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon to- day grlonllly received from the Chemi- cal Foundation, New York City, $100,- 000 to endow a fellowship for basic chemical research in the National In- stitute of Health. ‘The money from the Foundation was brought to Washington in the form of Government securities, certificates of in- debtedness, and was presented to the Secretary in simple ceremony by W. W. Buffum, general manager and treasurer of the Foundation. The Chemical Foundation is headed by Francis P. Garvan, president, and former alien property custodian here, Mr. Garvan signed the letter transmit- ting the gift, but was not present at the (;eremony. being represented by Mr. Buf- um, In receiving the gift, Secretary Mellon expressed appreciation and predicted that it would probably be the first of a number of other gifts the law establish- ing the National Institute of Health permits and the Government to receive. Mr. Buffum predicted there would be many other gifts to follow. secretary of the foundation; Dr. Hugh 8. Cumming, surgeon 'senersl of the United Stat Public Health Service; Dr. George W. McCoy, director of the National Institute of Health, and Dr. L. R. Thompson, assistant surgeon general of the Public Health Service, in charge of general research. FATHERS WILL BECOME GOLD STAR MEMBERS Honorary Relationship Provision Is Made at Dinner Meeting Held at Hamilton Hotel. A provision to make honorary mem- sers of Gold Star Fathers was made last night at a dinner of the American Gold Star Mothers in the Hamilton Hotel. The Fall work of the organiza- tion was inaugurated at the get-togeth- er meeting. Invitations to attend the sessions of Pidac here his week and the American Legion Convention later in the Fall were accepted. The growth of the organization and increasing activities led to adoption of a plan for two meetings to be held a month. They will be held at the Ham- ilton Hotel on the first and third Tues- days. Four new members were admitted last night. Mrs, George Gordonn Seibold, president, presided. JAMES P. CASEY HONORED Washington Branch Fleet Reserves Elects Him President. James P. Casey was elected president of the Washington Branch of the Fleet Reserve Assoclation at a meet! last night. George Isley was elected vice president. Other officers elected are J. J. Walsh, secretary-treasurer, and James Callan, sergeant. rms. L. Schroell, C. E. Heineman, C. Cav- anaugh, O. Christisn and W. were elected to the Board of Directors. Above: Modern cavalrymen of Fort Myer will re-enact stirring events of the old frontier days at the War College September 25, 26 and 27. Here they are representing Indians and troopers of the 3d Cavalry during an engagement in Oregon. At right, Miss Suzanne Swift, daugh- ter of Col. Palmer Swift, is rescued from a murderous brave by a daring rough rider of the 3d Cavalry. —Star Staff Photos. TWO LOCAL BANKS COMPLETE MERGER Institutions, One Having! Three Branches, Agree 1 on Combine. Merger of the Federal-American Na- tional Bank and the Merchants Bank & Trust Co. was completed late yester- day when the directors of the Federal- | American approved action already | taken by the Merchants Bank direc- | torate favoring the consolidation. The | merger has to be ratified by the stock- holders of both institutions after one | month’s notice. The new bank will take the name, Federal-American National Bank & Trust The main office Will be in teenth and G streets northwest, while the main office of the Merchants Bank at Fifteenth and H streets northwest, will be operated as a branch, as will be the present Merchants branches at Du- pont Circle, Brookland and Pennsyl- vanid -avenue and Twentieth street northwest. John Poole, president of the Federal- American, will be at the head of the combined institutions, while it is under- stood that Rolfe E. Bolling, president of the Merchants Bank & Trust Co., will continue in charge of the Fifteenth and H streets office. $25,000,000 Resources. ‘The new institution will have re- sources of $25,000,000; deposits of $20,- 000,000, and a total capital of $2,600,000. Combining of the five banks makes one of the most important mergers that Washington has seen in the city's banking history. Mr. Poole is one of the city's leading bankers. He began his career as a public accountant, entering the banking busi- ness in 1900. He was chairman of five Liberty loan drives in the District of Columbia, is a past president of the District of Columbia Bankers' Associa- tion and of Washington Chapter, Amer- ican Institute of Banking. He is a member of the advisory council of the Federal Reserve Board, representing the fifth district; president of the Wash- ington Community Chest and a member of the commission on the bicentennial celebration of the birth of George ‘Washington, Brother of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Mr. Bolling, president of the Mer- chants National Bank & Trust Co., has been in the banking business over 40 years. He organized banks in Panama many years ago and was an official in the Chatham-Phenix in New York for a long timé before becoming affiliated with Washington finance. He is a member of a distinguished Abington, Va, family and is a brother of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Following yesterday's meeting at the . Smith Wi Federal-American, it was stated that the branch advisory boards of the Mer- chants’ Bank & Trust Co. will be kept as they are for the present, additions probably being made later. ‘The terms of the exchange of stock have not been definitely settled between the directorates of the two banks. Re- ports on the street todhy hinted at something a little less than two shares of Merchants’ for one share of Federal- American. TRAFFIC CHANGES 0.K’D BY D. C. HEADS Recommendations Made by Assist- ant Director Relating to Parking. New Boulevard Designated. ‘Three traffic changes, recommended by Assistant Trafic Director Maurice O. Eldridge, were approved by the Dis- trict Commissioners yesterday. Thirty-fifth street, from O street to Wisconsin avenue, one of the heavily traveled arteries in Georgetown, was made a boulevard highway. Parking was prohibited on the east side of Johnson avenue, as the street is too narrow for two-way traffic if park- ing is allowed on both sides. Parking was prohibited on W street from Fourth street to Georgia avenue, as the distance from the curb to the car track is t0o narrow to permit pass- age of an automobile if cars are parked. TYPISTS TO COMPETE Speed Contest to Be Feature at An- nual Industrial Exposition. A typewriting speed contest for local typists will be a feature of the sixth annual Industrial Exposition of the ‘Washington Chambér of Commerce, to be held here soon at the Washington Auditorium. The contest, held for the first time last year, has been divided into three classifications—novice, junior and senior. Entry blanks may be procured at the ‘ashi; Chamber of e, Homer 3 REDSKINS READY TO BITE DUST AL ARMY CIRCUS NEW RUM SQUAD HAS BUSY DAY Makes Four Arrests and Con- fiscates Whisky, Gin and Beer. Detectives of the newly organized detail assigned to police headquarters for the investigation of prohibition, gambling and vice violations were ac- tive throughout the city yesterday, ar- resting four persons on dry charges and confiscating 125 gallons of whisky, 47 pints of gin, 104 bottles of beer, & truck and an automobile equipped with * The - Stehecs a e riches! ul of the day was made in the rear of the 2000 block of second street, where four detectives came upon a colored man unloading whisky from a truck in a garage. The man fled and made good his escape, but the truck, 247 half-gallon jars of liquor and 47 pints of gin were seized. Car Known as “Runner.” ‘The smoke screen equipped automo- bile was taken by detectives in the 1300 block of Montello avenue north- east. A man, who had just finished attaching the smoke equipment and was preparing to drive off, recognized the machine occupled by detectives as a headquarters car, and fled on foot. The confiscated car-is known to every policeman of the liquor squad as a “rum runner,” police say. It has caped & number of times on Bladens- burg road northeast by throwing out gckr c]ourd.s of ?Xllly.m;llck smoke in e face of pursul cers, accordin, to detectives. 7 o Arrests Made in Raids. A rald made at the home of Louis Katz, 30 years old, of 236 Second street northeast, netted 56 bottles of beer and 2% pints of liquor, police reported. Katz was arrested and booked on a charge of illegal possession. Posses- sion ~ charges also were preferred against George P. Harley, colored, 25 years old, of 2365 Pomeroy road south- east, and Ada R. Proctor, colored, 33 years old, of 2626 Barry road south- east, when they were found at 2450 Nichols avenue southeast, where detec- tives reported finding 48 bottles of r. ‘Three pints of liquor were taken from the home of Jesse R. Spriggs, colored, 38 years old, of 1019 Fourth street southeast and Spriggs was ar- rested for possession. UNKNOWN MAN A SUICIDE Found Hanging in Old Darby Building—Body at Morgue. The body of a 70-year-old man who yesterday was found hanging by awn- ing cords from a ladder in the old Darby Building, at Fourteenth and E streets, still lies unidentified at the District Morgue. J. B. Johnson of Manassas, Va., came upon the body of the man early yester- day when he came to work at the Darby Building, where he is employed as a foreman by the wrecking company en- gaged In razing the old building. A suicide certificate was issued by Deputy Coroner Joseph D. Rogers. ‘The body will be held at the morgue for about a week. If it is not identified, the body will be buried in Potter's Field. LEWIS, CONVICTED HERE, FOUND DEAD |Alleged Head of Underwriting Fraud, Believed Suicide to Escape Term. Melville S. Lewis, who was convicted here a year ago as the “master mind” of an insurance underwriting racket and was placed on trial in Philadelphia yesterday on similar charges of con- spiracy to defraud, was found dead to- day in the garage of his home, in Ocean City, N. J, according to Associated Press dispatches. Rather than face another possible jall sentence, it was believed Lewis chose death by carbon monoxide pols- oning. The engine of his car was run- ning when his body was found. Lewis was out on bail pending appeal of his conviction in Washington, where he was sentenced a year ago last June in connection with an alleged $150,000 swindle. While in Washington he identified himself as Frederick E. Lewis. He was sentenced to serve two years in prison and pay & fine of $5,000. Charges of Fraud. Indicted in Philadelphia, where he had resumed operations, Lewis was charged with defrauding Western mine operators of many thousands of dol- lars. The charges on which he was be- ing tried in Philadelphia yesterday out of his tance of Fece'in connection with plans to financs Western mining companies. One of Lewis’ alleged schemes, according to the district attorney's office, was to accept advance fees to float bond issues for corporations and then fail to do-the work. Counsel for Robert L. Little and Vest F. McClennan, owners of a 4,000-acre tract of land in California, charged in court yesterday that Lewis and his al- leged confederates mulcted his clients out of nearly $50,000. Lewis had been released under $10,000 bond in Washington, pending appeal from the District Supreme Court in his case which attracted considerable at- tention at the time of his conviction here. Later he returned to Philadelphia, where he became known as a “man of mystery” by persons living near his pa- Iatial home, which was surrounded by a high barbed-wire fence. Lewis was in Washington as the head of & bond underwriting racket. Accord- ing to evidence at his trial, when he ran afoul of tal authorities, he represent- ed himself as the head of a firm estab- lished in 1843, having a capitalization of $6,000,000, whose business was to float large bond issues. From 40 to 50 contractors here under- took to do business here with Lewls and his associates, but, it was charged, flaws were found in each case after, ap- icants paid advance fees and no d issues actually were floated. As in the Philadelphia case, the fees, it was charged, were retained by Lewis and his associates. ‘The other men who were indicted with Lewis in Philadelphia September § were Frank Brady, J. Edward R. Foote, scheme they are used of operating, it was said, has netted the four men at least $200,000 in four years. PASSENGER WHO COULDN’T FIND STRAP TO HANG ON SUES FOR $5,000 Traction Company’s Employes Charged With Lack of Usual Care by Man Thrown to Floor. Street car companies owe & particular duty to passengers obliged to stand in the aisles of crowded cars when there are no straps for them to grip, William Smith, 1813 Fifth street, tells the Dis- trict Supreme Court in a $5,000 damage suit filed today against the Capital Traction Co. Smith, through Attorney James D. Cunningham, says he boarded a street car of the| defendant company at Seventh and T streets on June 2 last. The Foening Star [“oera vewe | WEDNESDAY, PAGE FIDAC DELEGATES 0 BE GIVEN ROYAL CAPITAL WELGOME Three Bands to Escort Vet- erans From Union Station to Breakfast. ’ GROUP WILL VISIT TOMB OF UNKNOWN SOLDIER B—1 Plenary Session to Open at 2:30 in Continental Memorial Hall With Official Greetings. Maj. Julius I. Peyser of Washington, vice president of Fidac for the United States, will return here from New York tomorrow morning with the dis- tinguished foreign guests and delegates to the eleventh annual congress of the allied veterans, whose sessions will be resumed in the National Capital. Washington will match New York's hearty welcome to the veterans of 10 nations upon their arrival at Union tation at 7:35 a.m. tomorrow. High civic leaders and legionnaires, headed by the United States Army Band and the bands of Costello and Victory posts of the American Legion, will greet the veterans at the station and escort them to breakfast and later to their re- spective hotels, where they will be per- mitted a brief period of rest. The round of entertainment will end officially in New York tonight, when the delegates will be the guests of Mayor James J. Walker at a formal dinner. They will leave for Washing- ton on a special train at 2 am. Maj. Peyser, prominent in Legion circles, was & member of the official welcoming committee upon the arrival of the Fidac delegates in New York last Monday. Will Visit Arlington. After breakfast here, the Fidac group will visit Arlington National Cemetery for a ceremony before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the World War. m ceremony will be expressive of the age of 9,000,000 veterans of the allied nations, who constitute the mem- bership of the Fidac. The Pidac Aux- iliary, representing a membership of 350,000 women, also will be represented. The plenary session of the congress will operwat 2:30 o'clock in Continental Memorial Hall. There will be an invo- cation by Rev. Francis H. Hurney and addresses of welcome by Maj. O. L. Bodenhamer, national commander of the American Legion, whose member- ship comprises the American section of Fidac; Mrs. Lowell P. Hobart, dent general of the Daughters of the American Revolution; Maj. Gen. Her- bert B. Crosby, representing the Dis- trict Commissioners, and Mrs. Donald Macrae, national president of the American Legion Auxiliary. ‘White House Reception Planned. The principal event in the afternoon is to be the White House reception at 5 o'clock, when the President and Mrs. tinguished Hoover will receive the dis delegates and guests, some of whom are members of the parliaments of their respective countries. At 8:30 o'clock in the evening, Gen. John J. Pershing will be host at a dinner at the Wardman Park Hotel. Maj. Bodenhamer, Col. Thad H. Brown, general counsel of the Federal Radio Commission, and a repre- sentative of the French government, will be the speakers. Tomorrow, the day of arrival here, has been dedicated to France. The events of Friday will be dedi- cated to Great Britain. Assistant tary of the Navy Jahncke will make the principal address at the congress ses- sion in the morning. At a luncheon at the Mayflower the delegates will be ad- dressed by Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries and then will be taken on a sightseeing trip of the city and on a visit to Mount Vernon and Alexandria. Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley is to be the official host Friday evening, the delegates having been invited to a dinner at the Congressional Country Club. Besides Secretary Hurley's re- marks, there will be addresses by Dr, Thomas H. Healey, assistant dean of Georgetown University School of Forelgn ice, who was an lery officer during the World War, and a represent- ative of Great Britain, Fidac Awards to Be Presented. Presentation of the Fidac awards will be made Saturday morning at 10 o'clock by Brig. Gen. L. R. Gignilliat, followed by a luncheon at the Washington Hotel, when Cal. J. Miller Kenyon will speak. ‘The final business session of the Fidac Congress will be held in the afternoon with an election of officers. This will be followed' in the evening with a din- ner at the Willard Hotel, at which Sec- retary of State Stimson is to be the host. Saturday is dedicated to Italy and a representative of that government will speak. ‘The nation of the day on Sunday will be Poland. At 11 o'clock the delegates will attend special services at the ‘Washington Oathedral and will place & wreath on the tomb of Woodrow Wil- son, America’s war President, who is buried in Bethlehem Chapel. Following a luncheon at which As- sistant Secretary of the Navy Jahncke and a representative of Poland will speak, the delegates will journey to An- napolis to visit the United States Naval Academy. They will leave Washin, that night for a short tour of the East before returning to New York. Police Escort Arranged. Police arrangements for escorting delegates to the Fidac Convention were completed today by Capt. L. I. A. Ed- wards, personnel officer of the Police Department. A detail of motor cycle officers will meet the delegates when they arrive at Union Station tomorrow morning at 7:35 o'clock and escort them to the Wil- lard and Carlton Hotels. Captains of the first, third, sixth and fourteenth grecmcm were_instructed to carry out he police arrangements. The delegates will be taken from the station to the two hotels in 25 automo- bles. The procession will be headed by the police motor cycle escort. ORATORY WINNER ON WAY TO ENTER UNIVERSITY Herbert H. Wenig, International Contest Champion to Take Law Course in Harvard. After paying his fare, he says, he went into the car, but was unable to find a seat. The straps provided for the bene- fit of standing passengers were also oc- cupled, he alleges, thereby making it necessary for him to stand in the aisle. Because of this fact, he alleges, the company’s agents were bound to exer- cise unusual care in operating the car and, when they allegedly failed to do 8o, he was thrown to the floor by a ;::‘:‘:;.n movement of the car and in- £ . Herbert E. Wenig, winner of the first international oratorical contest, which was held at Washington Audi- torium in the Spring of 1926, was in Wi n today en route from his home in Los Angeles to enter Harvard University for a three-year course in the School of Law. At the time he won the contest over competitors from five countries, We: was 18 years old and had just graduat from He ood High School. He grad- uated Stanford Uni- versity. N s