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LAWTO BAN “SNIPE' SIGNS 1S SOUGKT Davison ' Declares Plans| Would Permit Clean-up Here Before Bicentennial. (Continued From First Page.) approach the problem from the view- nt of protecting the interests of all payers concerned, and without knekling dow nto the demands of the various groups of billboard people. Whatever compromise 1esulted, he #aid, was with due regard to the legal right of those in the sign business. Maj. Davison admitted that objec- tions might be raised to the phraseology of one of the proposed amendments governing the maintenance of billboards. Speaking only from his personal opin- fon, he said, he believed it far better, from the viewpoint of civic beauty and improvement, ta permit the rehabilita- tion of existing billboards which can- not be removed than to continue the policy of letting them simply rot away. The word “maintenance” was included in the proppsed law because it was in the act of July 1, 1902, for the reason it was desired to see that existing signs are maintained in a safe constructural condition. For two years, Maj. Davison pointed out, the District has been compiling a list of the authborized billboard sites within the Distriet and the task it not yet completed, owing to the difficulties encountered under earlier authoriza- tions. Compromise List Seen. “But with a new sign code we will be able to have all the big companies agree to a compromise list.” Maj. Davison ex- plained, “and establish definite sites outside of which no billboard can be added. ““Then the question arises as to what ghould be done with the existing boards. Is it better to let them rot away finally or be maintained in a modern, decent way under strict regulation?” At public hearings held on the sub- Ject of regulation, followed by several conferences, he explained, the billboard groups expressed their willingness to agree to definite limited lists of sites and adhere rigidily to the new code if they would be permitted to repair and ve their existing billboards. ‘en years from now, Maj. Davison sald, there would be fewer of these lefill billbeards if refusal is given to rehabili- tate them, but 90 per cent of them would be a worse disfigurement to the city than they now are. 1 believe, personally, it would be bet- ter for Washington to have @ limited boards and decreasing number of billl decently maintained than a limited though increasingly decaying number of existing boards,” he said. Maj. Davison said that undoubtedly in this respect the District Commis- sioners, in whose hands the bill imposes strict nfulnmy and controlling pow- ers, would be guided by public senti- ment. Association Takes Firm Stand. The American Civic Association, which undertook to inaugurate the campaign to clean up the highway ap- proaches to Wash! , 15 stre op- E‘ouc to any compromise by w! ex+ ting boards can be rehabilitated. Miss Harlean James, its executive sec- , declared the quicker the bill- rot away the sooner the District would be rid of them, ‘Two other local bodies have joined in the cam) to improve billboard and sign _condi! in Washington and its enyirons, The Conduit Road Citizens’ bt e 13:':; mmn i ;endmx uf Appro e now in Congress to give the District Com- migsloners more authority over the sit- nation. At a recent m the Arts Ciub of Washington took action follow- ing a general discussion of conditions “in the District and elsewhere.” 1{1:2 Arts Club resolved unanimously: “That the Board of Governors of the Arts Club indorses the movement spon- Association e sign nuisance in the District of Columbia and throughout the United Etates, and recommends to the Arts Club membership full co-operation in sll efforts to eliminate this source of dan- ger and defacement of scenery.” YOUTH BREAKS JAIL BY PICKING 2 LOCKS Prisoner, 16, Returned to Cell and Is Promptly Sen- tenced. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., December 19.— Ten hours after he had broken jail, where he was held on the charge of entering and robbing & local store, John ‘W. Jarvis, 16 years of age, had not only been placed in the jail again, but had gone through the necessary court pro- cedure which brought him a sentence to the Maryland Training School for Boys during his minority. He pleaded gullty to jail breaking and robbery be- fore Circuit Court Judge Robert Moss. Jarvis was being held in the Annap- olis Jail on a charge of robbing the store of Bamuel Lerner on Main street and when he broke jail last night, he returned to the same store and made en assault with a pistol en the same man Lerner was not seriously hurt, and at $5:30 o'clock this morning Jarvis was apprehended by Sergt. William Curry of the Annapolis police force and again placed in jail. Jarvis was not locked in his cell early last night, as he had expressed a wish to take a bath. Warden Taylor intended to give him this privilege at & later time, and Jarvis took advantage of his absence from the cell to pick the locks, apparently using & nail file and a coin. At 11 o'cloeck Lerner was about to lock up his place of business, a pawn shop, when Jarvis appeared from behind a door and thr ned him with a pistol. He did net. shoot, however, but struck Lerner with a blackjack. The latter grabbed & palr af shears and Jarvis ran from the store. Jarvis was captured by Sergt. Curry while hiding in a building of the John- #on Lumber Co. near the wharf of the Clgirborne Ferry Co. Jarvis was being | held for the action of the grand jury | on the charge of robbing Lerner of istols, watches and other articles. He gld been captured in Washington, the pawning of a number of articles sup- plying & clue. ' % mf‘m.. where THE _EVENING Scores Capital Approaches There’s Little Excuse for Unsightliness of Roads Leading Into Washington, Magazine Declares. S0 Much Ugliness Held to Be Travesty. billboarded,” unsightly ap- roaches to the Capital City. his feeling is indicated in an editorial appearing this week in the Saturday Evening Post, which HE Nation is proud of Wash- l ton, but not the “be- says: “The physical aspect of Washington, the Nation's Capital, is characterized by charm, grace and sheer magnificance. Commission efter commission has sought with an ever-mounting degree of success to beautify the city. George Washington conceived it originally and | a talented French engineer officer made_the first plans on a noble scale. One President after another has given | a really unstinted enthusiasm to the project and Congress has been any- thing but niggardly in appropriating | funds for vast and ornamental public buildings. In recent years two able men, Senator Smoot and Secretary | Mellon, have been especially interested in forwarding the mighty building pro- gram. Meanwhile the pattern of parks. monuments, boulevards, highways and | bridges has taken an ever-finer shape. Growth of Motor Travel. | “It is & commonplace to say that the | automobile has transformed modern | life. Is it ten or fifteen million pe?xg}c who go touring every Summer? e exact number does not matter; we all| know that the country is covered with | motor travelers, not only in Summer but throughout the year. The Capital gets its share of them, make no mis- take about that, and justly so. They go there by individuals and in groups. | in delegations and in swarms. There are school children, college students and conventions of adults of every| conceivable description, in addition to {‘l‘n\n citizens who have no badges on em, but who are out to see the sights. ‘They go to see the White House, Con- gress in session, the Supreme Court, | the Washi the Lin coln Memorial, Mount hundred other points of interest. “Multitudes of these go by train, but other and increasing thrang: reach the Capital by the highways. No one will pretend that railroas most of our large cities are things of beauty. But there is some excuse for these dull, sordid approaches. In the first place, they represent mostly & very old development; when life was entrances to on a simpler scale and there was not the recognized necessity of preventing ugliness that now exists. In the sec- ond place, the railroads must touch heavy industries, and besides, they have their own necessary accompani- ment of freight depots, roundhouses, warehouses, and the like. “There is no such excuse for the character of so many of the main automobile entrances to our cities. If the main approach to Washington from the North be taken as an ex- ample, it is a wonder that tourists do not turn about and return to their homes. In the first place, there exists for many, many miles a perfect chaos of billboards. These include not only what are technically known as te: boards, which are usually the larger and more regular forms of outdoo! vertising, but also an endless and ut- terly bewildering array of snipe, or smaller, signs. The defacement of the route is so complete, the signs are so overdone, they are so numerous, that it is impossible to see how the adver- tising can have any effect. Moreover, what space is not covered by signs is given over to hot-dog_stands, service stations and other outfits which, gen- erally speaking, add to the prevailing feeling of gloom. “In one large State which does not adjoin _the District of Columbia more than 32,000 signs, many of them wholly illegal, were removed in a_ few weeks’ time in July of this year. In this par- ticular State the Outdoor Advertising Association, as well as the State High- way Department, has been instru- mental in removing illegal signs. “What a travesty that one cannot reach the Nation's Capital by main highway from the most thickly settled part of the country without passing through so much which is ugly! y “It is true that officials of the Dis- trict of Columbia have no_jurisdiction outside the borders of the District. But are there no arguments, no forms of persuasion which Federal commissions and dignitaries can bring to bear which will make neighboring States less lax? “Washington is like a magnificently dressed queen with dirty finger nalls and dewn-at-the-heels, muddy shoes. 1t will never, it can never be a beauti- ful city until it is entered by. ways that are at least dignified and decently free from actual defacement.” DANVILLE STOCK DIVIDENDS VOTED Three Per Cent Cut to Pre- ferred Sharehoiders Is Strike Answer, Spocial Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va, December 10.—| Voting of the regular semi-annual divi- dend of 3 per cent on preferred stock to its stockholders was the answer of the Riverside and Dan River Cotton ills today to the Textile Union’s claims | as to the effectiveness of the strike of | 4,000 union operatives, which is now in its twelfth week. This action, taken by the board of directors at a meeting yesterdsy noon, emphasizes the mili| management’s contention that the plants are operating as fully as market demands justify &nd that all orders re- ceived are being filled, indicating that | the strike is not materially affecting the operation of the plants. Payable January 1. The dividend declared yesterday is payable to stockholders on January 1. ‘There is $7,500,000 worth of preferred stock of the mills outstanding, which means that the dividend will release about $225,000 the first of the year. Word of the action was generally wel- comed in business circles, since the dis- tribution of close to a quarter million dollars would materially relieve the despair .of merchants caused by stagna- tion of business owing to the strike complex, & tobacco crop failure and consequent low prices paid and general | financial stringency. Failure to pay the dividend would have been a festher in the cap of the union and the strikers, since it would | be demonstrated that the mills were not | doing so well in the face of the atrike. | Strikers’ Hopes Not Hampered. However, the development has not dampened the hopes of the strikers, it was learned in union circles. Some expressed the view that the action was for “effect.” ‘The union, however, declined to make an official formal statement at zhxsl1 e. Cutting and hauling of wood from a nearby farm halted by a 2-foot snow was resurfed today and strikers whose fuel supply had run short were again being replenished. No dividend was declared on com- mon stock by the directors; none hav- ing been paid since last January be- cause of the unsettled condition of the cotton goods market. The strike situation remained quiet this morning, with apparently the usual number going to work and with pickets at their posts and troops continuing their patrols. E. W. HYDE, JR., DEAD Former Business Man of D. C. Ex- pires in Philadelphia. Word was received here today of the death in Philadelphia, Pa, of E. W. Hyde, jr., formerly in the construetion business here, Mr, Hyde was a member of Wash- ington fayette Lodge of Masons. | Funeral services will be held tomor- Tow afternoon at 2 o'clock at Suffell Chapel, Philadelphia. MRS. ROBEEN EXPIRES Sister Calls Aid After Failing to Gain Entrance to Room. Mrs. Minnie Robeen, 56 years old, of 3024 Q street, died at her home early last night. Mrs. Mary A. Halstead, a sister, said she was unable to receive an answer when she tried to arouse Mrs. Robeen for dinner. Subsequently, she sum- moned room. Dr. E. Stuart Lyddane was sum- moned fr his office nearby and pro- nounced Mrs. Robeen dead. ——s U. S. ENVOY IMPROVES Minister Diekema Has Peaceful Night After Operation. ‘THE HAGUE, Holland, December 19 ). —Gerrit John Diekema, United States Mlnis;.ell' u; the Netherlands, P 3 peaceful n ration yes- terday, but is very vur.' Mrs. Sh- kema' remained all night in the Red Dead of Plane Injuries MRS. HERBERT FAHY, Former Washington aviatrix, today of injuries sustained when her plane crashed in Nevada. . MRS, CLAIRE FAHY DIES FROM HURTS Former Washington Woman Taught to Fly by Husband, Also Crash Victim. Mrs. Claire M. Pahy, widow of Her- bert Pahy, the National Capital's out- standing pilot, who was killed last Spring in an sirplane erash in which Mrs. Fahy was injured, died today as a result of injuries received a few days ago in a crash at Tonopah, Nev. ac- cording to Associated Press dispatches. Mrs. Fahy, who learned to fly in this city under Fahy's tutelage while em- ployed as a Government secretary, was taking off from Tonopah in her own plane following an aerial meet in which she had participated when she lost fly- ng speed and spun into the ground. Her skull was fractured and she re- ceived other iniuries. Husband Killed in April. The accident in which Fahy was killed and Mrs. Fahy injured occurred last April near Detroit when the plane ran into a hidden stump on the edge of an airport. Fahy's skull was frac- tured an crash. Mrs. Fahy was not seriously injured and resumed flying soon after- ward. 8he took part last year in the women's air derby from California to Cleveland as a part of the 1929 Na- tional Air Races. Mrs. Fahy, then Mrs. Claire M. Adams, met Fahy when he was a fly- ing instructor at Hoover Field. She took flying instruction from him and became one of the best known American woman flyers, They were married here, it being a second mar- riage for both. Mrs. Fahy leaves a daughter by her first marriage. Planning World Flight, Fahy and Mrs. Fahy were planning a flight around the world when he was killed. He formerly held the world's solo endurance record, with a flight of more than 37 hours. ‘The Fahys left the National Capital more than two years ago when he was appointed chief test pilot for an air- El.lne manufacturing company at Bur- nk, Calif. Both had flown here sev- eral times prior to his death. 7KELLE-Y OIL ACCUSATION INVESTIGATION ASKED Walsh Resolution Proposes Senate Probe Into'Shale Lands Lease Charges Ruled Out. By the Associgted Press. Senate investigation of charges by Ralph 8. Kelley, former field agent of the General Land Office, of Lrregular- ities in the lease of oil shale lands was roposed in a resolution offered today gy Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana. Kelley was dismissed by Secretary Wilbur after the Department of Justice had held his charges were untrue. Walsh said he was expressing no con- vietion about the truth of the charges, but thought they should be the subject “at least of a preliminary inquiry.” He asked to have the resolution re- ferred to the Senate Lands Committee, operation was which he said cowld ite the ! men, police sald, formerly were partners he_dled shortly after the | STAR, WASHINGTON ACTRESS SAYS SHE PHONED BUCKLEY Tells Police It Was Her Call Which Lured Radio An- nouncer to His Death. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, December 19.—A burlesque | | actress who admitted, according to po- ’ lice, that hers was the voice which, called Gerald E. Buckley to his death, ! will tell the Wayne County grand jury | her story today, if her condition pe'r-‘ its, | mThe actress is Margaret Owen, 22, who | has been in the psychopatic ward of | Receiving Hospital since November 20, when she claimed she had been given | isoned whisky to prevent her from tifying in another murder case. Says Man Prompted Her. Police said yesterday she said she had been prompted by a man whose identity has not been revealed to call the radio litical commentator by telephone and P:vlu him to a party to celebrate recall of Mayor Charles Bowles. She said Buckley was to meet her in the lobby of the La Salle Hotel. As Buckleg was sitting in the lobby early July 23, two hours after he had announced the recall of Mayor Bowles, three men entered and fired 11 shots into his body. Collapsed in Theater. Miss Owen, according to police, said the same man who had prompted her call to Buckley, 25 minutes before he was shot, insisted she not keep the ap- pointment and that she did not go to the hotel. Police have refused’to say whether this man is in custody. Two days before she was to have testified at the trial of Nicholas Del- labonta and Frank Salimone for the murder to two Grosse Pointe Park policemen, Miss Owen collapsed at the theater where she is employed. ~She claimed to have been given poisoned whisky and later identified Dominick Ferro as the man who gave it to her. Dellabonta is said by police to have been among her intimate friends. Another Is Arrested. A former associate of Ted Pizzino, held on a charge of murder in the kill- ing of Buckley, was arrested early today on orders of Prosecuting Attorney Toy. The man, Sam Bagonia, and his wife. Betty, had been sought by police, it was said, since the arrest of Pizzino in New York. Bagonia was said to have been the man who forwarded Pizzino's money to New York. Piszino was arrested when he went to draw the money. The two in operation of a handbook. ALL ITALY STIRRED BY DUCE’S CHARGE U. S. CAUSED CRISIS (Continued From Pirst Page.) prosperity—indefinite and absolute— without eclipse, without decadence—al} were rieh.” Buy at 20, Sell at 100. “Everybody knows by memm? " the Duce pursued, “the things which are now commonplaces—there was @n tomobile for every eight inhabitants, a radio for every four, a telephone for every three. “Everybody played the market. As the shares went up, everybody having bought one at 20 sold it at 100, and with it bought an automobile, radio or telephone, or made a trip to Europe, paying on the installment plan. and perhaps bought a country house in the neighborhood. “All that was marvelous. Then we had a series of black, blackest days. Shares lose 20, 30, 50 ?!r cent of their value. That crisis isn’ the black days have been following one another and instead of prosperity there are lines of those waiting for bread and soup in the great cities of the United States. “It is with profound sadness that I realize this and you will understand why without my insisting. ““The fact is, from that day we were thrown back into a high sea; from then on even for ué navigation has been ex- tremely difficult.” The financial situation in the United States so affected Italy, Mussolini as- serted, that a surplus of 65,000,000 lire had turned into a deficit of approxi- mately 900,000,000 lire. “Such a deficit is not grave, like a lost battle, like the cession of territory, or a national catastrophe,” he said. “It is s thing extremely serious, however, which imposes on the government the duty of eonverging all its attention upon a recovery, and imposes on citizens, in- cluding the Senators, the duty not to put forward continually demands for new expenses for which we must find rev- enue—which signifies taxes.” Formula Called Mistake. ‘The Duce found little favor for the American economic policy, which he described as “mass production and mass consumption.” “This formula is & mistake,” he said, “and they themselves recognize it. “It is a mistake because production is by machine and consumption is by man. The formula was logical merllr from a mechanical view, but a small obstacle is enough to cause its collapse.” He regarded “dumping” Russian wheat as “rather important.” quoting flglnl to show that a large amount of wheat is being imported by Italy from the Soviet Russia. The Duce reviewed the banking situ- ation in Italy, scoring the Catholic Popular party’s past efforts to create rural banks. “I would like to recommend from this rostrum,” Mussolini said, “to all those who have care for their souls to disinterest themselves from the profane things—to leave banks to bankers, be- cause bankers aren't improvised.” However, the Duce pointed out, the people of Italy are finding that if con- ditions are bad here, they are also bad elsewhere. United States Kxcepted. He said that on August 13 he issued instructions that passports be granted in the largest number possible to all the countries except the United States, “in- cluding Russia, where, however, up to today nobody has sought to go,” the Duce observed. His exception of the United States was because the American quota was long ago exhausted. “Was this perhaps a change in our emigration policy?” Mussolini asked. “No. But there was a singular situa- tion determined in Italy. Many in good faith thought really that this was hell and that paradise was elsewhere; that there was misery only in Italy and else- where was the reign of abundance; that only in Italy was there unemploy- ment and elsewhere there was not. “Very well,” he sald. “This measure, from viewpoint of morale, has given 100 per cent results. In the first few days the police stations were full of yet cleaned up, | the D. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1930. Killed in Auto Crash ¥ ROGER L. CALVERT. —Harris-Ewing Photo. < FAVOR 2COLUMN PORTALS DESIGN Park and Planning Board Members Delay Final Ac- tion on Entrances. ‘While no final action was taken, the National Capital Park and Planning Commission today expressed preference for the two-column design in the pro- posed monumental entrances to the Dis- trict. C. L. Wirth, the commission’s landscape architect, conducted a group of interested ladies on a tour of inspec- tion of the proposed entrances and will report back to the commission. Mrs. Frank B. Noyes, on behalf of the Garden Club of America, invited the attention of the commission to the ad- visability of erecting suitable entrances to the Capital, a feature of prepara« tions for the 1932 George Washington Bi-Centennial celebration here. Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., the commission’s en- gineer, sald the commission was con- sidering the placing of suitable archi- tectural markers at these entrances to the cit; Bladensburg road, Georgia avenue, Piney Branch road. the High- way Bridge and Chain Bridge. Approves Legislation. The commission approved in gen- eral the proposed legislation to au- thorize the District Commissioners to close certain streets in the city with- out the necessity for resorting to con- gressional action. The commission also generally approved the proposed bill to. eliminate gradually the alley dwellings in the District, but asserted that an amendment should be inserted direct- ing that the provisions of the bill be carried out directly under the District Commissioners. The bill is substan- tially the same as that which has pre- viously been in Congress. The legis- lation is designed to weed out the alley dwellers, as a sanitary and city beau- tification program, but at the same time preserve personal and property rights. Circle Wins Over Oval, A circle, instead of an oval, at Wis- consin avenue and the District line, was made certain through the action of the commission, whose members explained that the District Commissioners have approved this new program. Charles C. Glover, jr., appeared before commission, representing the Home for Incurables, and spoke about the location of a playground and recreation center in that area. The commission desired to learn the views of interssted citizens on establishing the playground, but Capt. Chisolm explained that the final site has not yet been selected. 350 GONVICTS TO GET CHRISTMAS PAROLES Alabama Long-Termers Granted 15-Day Leave as Reward for Good Conduect. By the Associated Press. MONTGOMERY, Ala., December 19. —Gov. Bibb Graves has announced 350 long-term State convicts will be given 15-day “Christmas paroles” effective December 22 as a reward for their ex- cellent prison records, ‘The list includes 8 per cent of the total prison population of Alabama and | carries the names of men directly recommended by the wardens in charge of the various State prisons. Alabama's “Christmas parole” an- nouncement is an annual custom of Gov. Graves as an encouragement to discipline in the State's penal institu- tions. Each warden keeps a ocareful check on the deportment of each “long- timer,” and at the end of the year re- ports to Gov. Graves the names of the rl.sonlers ranking among the highest in havior. TRACES LOCAL LABOR PLAN TO ROW HERE Glass, Discussing Couzens’ Proposal, Says Carolina School Bid Started Agitation. (Prom the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) Speaking in the Senate this afternoon in opposition to the Couzens proposal to require local labor on public works wherever the Federal Government is planning projects, Senator Glass, Demo- crat, of Virginia, declared the agitation for such a rule started in Washington. “A contractor in North Carolina had bid on one of the larger projects of im- provement here in the District of Columbia,” Senator Glass said. “He was the lowest bidder under one section of the proposals. An outcry was made that he was going to bring his con- struction force from North Carolina into the District of Columbia. “The’ authorities of the District of Columbia, in response to local senti- ple insistently demand! passports. mn this crowd thinned and now pt.fuu m"mcn coming back than are leav- MEXICO AIDS CAPITAL Laws Amended to Give Foreign In- vestors Guarantees. MEXICO CITY, December 19 (#).— The Mexican Senate yesterday passed amendments to the agrarian laws offer- ing added guarantees to_foreign capital in" Mexico asked by President z Rublo. 8ince the amendments already had been by the Chamber of Deputies, they now need only the Presi- dent’s signature to become & law, ment, finally found & means of exclud- ing this North Carolina concern. Upon & mere technical consideration the bid of the North Carolina concern was rejected.” Senator Glass contended that North Carolina and Virginia, through their Federal taxes, had contributed to the Jump sum contribution of $9,500,000 from the United States toward main- tenance of the District government. CHRISTMAS TREES BANNED ISTANBUL, Turkey, December 19 (#). —This city's 300 American residents are going to have a treeless Christmas this rogram forl cul of g:n trees or br: . Merchants whe sell them are to prosecution. SURPRISE SPRUNG. | INWARDNAN CASE Plaintiffs Ask Cancellation of Stock Issued to Defend- ants’ Mortgage Firm. Plaintiff attorneys sprang a s in the closing minutes of yesterday's hearing of the suit of minority stock: holders for the appointment of a re- ceiver for the Wardman Mortgage and Discount Corporation, being held in Corporation Court at Alexandria, when they entered a prayer that their origi- nal petition be amended to ask that approximately 25,000 shares of stock of the corporation held by Harry Ward- man, Thomas P. Bones and James D. Hobbs be canceled. Judge Willlam P. ‘Woolls took the plea under advisement. Plaintiff Attorney Harry F. Kennedy charged in introducing the prayer that the State Corporation Commission had inadvertently allowed the issuance of | the stock, which comprises about three- fourths of the total stock issued, to the three men for services on which no_value was ever placed. Judge Daniel Thew Wright, counsel for the defense, in objecting to the prayer contended that the stock was duly approved by gke State corporation Commission when the stock-issue plan was authorized. Judge Wright further contended that this plea was aside from the original purpose of the suit and that if any idea of such a plea had been given at the outset of the trial the procedure of the defense would have been entirely different. Following the close of the case yes- terday, the hearing was adjourned until January 5 by agreement of counsel for hoth sides. "About two more days will be required to complete the case, it was estimated yesterday. The plaintiffs have rested their side of the case, and when the hearing is reopened, the de- fense will put its witnesses on the stand. Among these witnesses will be Harold S, Roberts, certified public_ac- countant, formerly of the firm of Stoy & Roberts, who audited the books of the defendant corporation each year from its inception. Most of the day yesterday was con- sumed with the defense’s cross-exami- nation of John Berg, certified public accountant employed by the plaintiffs, and the redirect examination of this witness by plaintiff attorneys. The case has already consumed nine court days, and the record has reached about 1,000 pages. PAPER SUSPENDED BY HAVANA ORDER Editor Jailed as Diario de la Marina Is Closed for Second Time in Month. By the Assoclated P HAVANA, December 19.—For the second time within a month public- tion of the influential daily newspaper, Diario de la Marina, has been suspend- ed by the government. The plant of the newspaper was closed last night, preventing this morn- ing's issue, upon order of the Depart- ment of Interior. Aldo Baroni, editor, was confined in the prison for fedéral offenders at the Cabanas Fortress. police guard was stationed outside the plant to prevent any one entering. “which eaused ‘The first interruption to the paper's 98 years of continuous publication came & month ago when a voluntary sus- pension_was carried out for 14 days in “against censorship. A statement by Dr. Rafael Mario An{ulu. president of the Press Asso- ciation of Cuba, protests the clos down of the paper as unjustified an unconstitutional. After calling atten- tion to the fact that it is the dean of Cuban newspapers and one of the oldest in “the three Americas,” he says: “Founded 98 years ago, it a stanch bulwark and constant defender ot the conservative classes of Cuba, My protest is all the more emphatic be- cause nothing has been published in the recent editions of this paper which might be even remotely construed as ‘u‘:ilg( to eriticize the Machado re- JOBLESS AID ASKED BY LLOYD GEORGE Liberal Leader Points to U. 8. for Example of Proper Action to Take. By the Associated Press. 2 LONDON, December 19.—In America, David Lloyd George reminded the House of Commons today, President Hoover has announced that millions of dollars will be .lrent this year for the relief of unemployment. ‘“And why,” he dsmlnded. “don’t we take such steps ere?” He was making an onslaught against the government's recent white paper setting out its unemployment relief ac- tivities. He characterized the document as “very vague,” giving no indication of what 15 going on in England. He held up the example of the United States as a model upon which the MacDonald government might pattern its own un- employment program. is speech was a sort of follow-up on his previous demands that the gov- ernment should tackle the unemploy- ment problem after the xweegln[ ash- ion advocated by himself and the Lib- eral party. The fiery little Welshman expressed dissatisfaction with some of the 'es in the white paper and F. W. Pethick Lawrence, financial secretary to the treasury, produced a set of compilations which still did not satisfy him. If more complete details couid not be | ven, said loyd George, he would ave to revert to the subject later “in & formal way,” by which the opinion of the House could be obtained. e CLERK CALLED TO COURT UNDER SMOKE ORDINANCE Treasury Is Second Department Charged With Disobeying Rule This Season. Held responsible for s violation of the smoke ordinance which a Dis- trict_health inspector said occurred in the Treasury Department Building De- cember 15, Frank A. Birgfeld, chief clerk of the Treasury, was haled into Police Court today. The case was continued until Janu- ary 2 by Judge Isaac R. Hitt to allow & device for curbing excess smoke to be installed at the Treasury. Inspector Francis Dowd procured a warrant for Birgfeld's arrest at Police Court yesterday. p-.rmzn‘c. l?‘:ldln tg g'mh-rpa' i uilding cl with disobeying the smoke ordinance this ‘The superintendent of the Justice Department Building was con- victed Wednesday. Last fil! the Capi- tol was included in the list of offend- ing buildings. Fire Damages Residence. A stove which overturned at the home of James Roland, 70 years old, of 804 Ntuhct ltgne:. set fire to the place du‘:t engine company was dis- pa extinguished the slight damage, and | Forum Speaker I SENATOR HIRAM JOHNSON. CAPONE EXECUTION IS URGED BY LYLE Chicago Judge Connects Hoodlum Chief With Mur- ders of Two Men. By the Assocl CHICAGO, 19.—Judge John H. Lyle today was quoted as say- '.g eorts would pe made to send Al- phonse Capone, gang chief, to the elec- tric cnaly in connection with the slay~ ing of twa men. “We will send Capone to the chair, if it is possible to do so," said Judge Lyle, who issued a vagrancy warrant for Capone several months or more ago. ‘He deserves to die. He has no right to Connects Colosime Xilling. Speaking before the Chicago Safety Council, the judge mentioned Capone’s nanie in connection with the killing in the deatii of another man whose name he did not reveal. The Herald aminer. nowever, said the Sta ney’s office was scrutinizing the files of the cass of Joseph Howard, slain May ¢, 1924, with the idea of making it the basis of a murder charge. ‘The Herald and Examiner added that Assistant State's Attorney Harry Ditch- burne reported he would act if the in- vesltfllznnnn appearec to justify such n. Attorney Assassinated. Howard, whon: the newspaper dc- sciibed as @ member of the gang n- iration of Johnny Torrio, was killed in A oaloon. The motive was never clear, out Michae: Hughes, who was chief of dciactives at the time, was quoted as saylng thai Howard and Oapone had uarreied. Later Capone was ques- ‘loned, the Herald and Examiner said, by Assistant State's Attorney William B. Mc8wiggin, who was assassinated two years later. NEW FRANCO-CANADIAN TRADE TREATY FORECAST Understandings Reported to Have Been Reached, but Pact Will Come Later. December 19 OTTAWA, (by the Can Press) - d will %u mm n.:w’r':m Lt pact, but not in the immediate future. Certain understandings, it is learned, have recently been arrived at. After the imperial conference Premier R. B. Ben- nett was in Paris, and the matter of the ul;tsrmlnt of Canadian trade was in mind. Under the present agreement France, in return for tariff concessions given by Canada, grants to the dominion a minimum tariff of Canadian exports. This minimum duty has been eased since the present Franco- trade agreement was executed a few years ago and naturally had the effect of rating against Canadian goods. }t ll”:“dd that :{m};rmndlw d- Ing e ‘eement ve been reached. i PSSR POINCARE STILL GAINS Absolute Rest Ordered for Ill Ex- Premier in Paris. PARIS, December 19 ().—An official bulletin today said that while the im- provement in the condition of Raymond Poincare continues steadily, absolute rest is necessary for him. No further bulletins will be issued until Sunday. e e i JOHNSON T0 GIVE ANTI-COURT VIEW California Sepator Will Be Heard in Radio Forum Tomorrow Night. Senator Hiram Johnson of w“m’t"o the Columbia B at 9:30 o'clock tomorrow Senator Johnson member of the Senate Fore! Committee, which has just by vote de- termined to postpone consideration of L“hl:d ‘World eolrx‘r‘t proposal until tao fl:: nesday after Congress meets n December. He o) adherence of this country to the World Court when the proposal was before the Senate four years ago, on the d that the court is the League of Nations Court and that entrance of the United States into the court would be a kind of back door entrance into the League of Na- tions itself, The California Senator holds that the so-called Root formula and the revised statutes of the Werld Court do not meet the objection to advisory opinions delivered by the court at the request of the of Nations and its members, raised by the Senate when it adopted reservation 5, when it agreed to adherence ‘“with reserva- tions” in 192 He also is opposed to the entry of the United States into tke World Court as now constituted, be- lieving that this country may become entangled in foreign politics through such entry. Senator Johnson is recog- nized as one of the most eloguent and l":)ldrdeut-hlttlnf debaters in the Senate ay. Senator Johnson's speech will be in answer to Senator Capper, who upheld American adherence in his h in the National Forum last turday night. PRISONER CONFESSES ROBBERY FOR WHICH ANOTHER IS INDICTE! (Continued From First Page.) uested that the youth be given into their custody for the two hold-ups which he is said to have confessed l'qln&in. that place on 2, and, while there is no possibility of such action being taken at this time, provisions will be made toward that end. Inspector William S. Shelby said that detainment papers will be filed against Higgins after judgment has been passed on the charges ed aganinst him here, uf g-tuthe l:\yd ;m be held for police of the Mary] wn of the ”gn term W] be cconfessi ine and taxicab hold-ups. is sald to have told Detec- tive Harry Cole and Robert Barrett when taken into that he forced James Allen, a chauffeur for the c,l;& P. Telephone Co. here, to drive to Annapolis, where they escaped in a hail of gunfire after Hig- gins executed two robberies. ‘The Maryland “jobs” ked the boy's first adventure into a lone cam- , in which he staged 10 other 0ld-ups before his arrest. ‘The Telephone company chsuffeur viewed the young salesman at police headquarters last night and ed hmut’l:umwgmm b‘l’\‘u triet of Wlmnm on December 2, jammed & revolver into his ribs and drive to Annapolis. last night as the ban foa :(’.l u::.fll sum of money re- %m of .nlmtflm counts has soared to Inspector elby announced that Higgins will be given a hearing in Po- tomorrow morning. The chief of detectives occasion this morning to laud the work of Ber- Ayers, a taxicab driver, living at 636 Fourth street northeast, who led n | detectives to a meeting place where he arranged to join Higgins at 1 o'clock esday morning, after gaining the confidence of the youth earlier in the night and promising te join him in a series of hold-ups. Higgins held up Ayers on Decatur street, but met with faillure because tho cab driver had no money at that time Ayers, pl to effect the capture of the youth, ed ! confidence. in a lengthy of the hold-up gms and arranged to meet him later the night to earry out their “plans” of robbery, Ayers went through with the arrange ment after notifying police and Head quarters Detectives Cole and Barret’ arrived on the scene and made th- arrest as the two were about to drive off in the taxi. SR IR IR IR DN DU ISV This Year Give a Subscription to THE STAR END THE STAR to some far.off friend who wants the news of Wash- ington, or send a subscription to a friend in Maryland or Virginia, or for that matter anywhere. An Appropriate Gift Card Will Be Sent With Your Subscription RATES BY MAIL, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE, POSTAGE PREPAID Maryland and Virginia . 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