Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and slightly colder today; tomor- Tow, fair. 51, at 4 pm. tures—] 5 h'elt.ngf‘.:t’ 1:30 am. yes- Within the Hour™ | The Blar Is deliversd every svening and BSunday moming to Washinglon homes by The Btar's éxclusive carrier servies. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery report on page 5. No. 1,356—No. - 31,729, L0SS OF 2000000 IN RHEEM CRASH SHOWN N REPORT Mrustees’ Statement, Due| i Tomorrow, to Dispute $6,503,253 Assets. 60 PER CENT RECOVERY SEEN FOR NOTEHOLDERS Jeers and Hisses Greet Mention of Rheem at Meeting of Creditors. A report estimating the ultimate loss of approximately $2,000,000 to pur- chasers of securities sold through Swartzell, Rheem and Hensey, bank- rupt mortgage house, will be filed with the referee in bankruptcy tomorrow by the newly elected trustees, it was lJearned yesterday. * This Teport was prepared by a corps bf auditors and accountants working mnder the direction of the receivers ap- pointed by the court to take over the affairs of the company after its volun- tary petition in bankruptcy was filed. The statement to be filed tomorrow _will list lisbilities of approximately 66,000,000 and assets between $3,750,000 and $4,000,000. This means, it was said, that holders of trust notes which have been released probably will be able to Tecover about 60 per cent of the face value of their investment. Report at Sharp Variance. Entered as second el post office, \Washing! PRESIDENT TOURS CITY, VIEWING U. 'Progress of Huge Construction Program Gratifying From River to Capitol Hill. President Hoover made an automo- bile tour of the city yesterday to in- spect progress on the great building program. from the river to the Capitol, covering future building sites for monumental structures vet to be placed on paper, gaping excavations where foundations for new buildings are soon to laid, the steel skeletons of some buildings, the polished stone shells of others, the rattle and bang of razing operations and the broad vistas made by removal of old debris, the President witnessed at first hapd the gigantic operation by which America’s Capital is having her face lifted With him rode Sec- retary of the Interior Wilbur, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Heath, in charge of the public building program, and Walter Newton, one of the Presi- dent's secretaries. ‘The trip gave the President an op- portunity to study the visual signs of progress in the Capital program, in- spect the sites for future buildings, and discuss the program for the country at large—a program that has called for and is producing from the busy super- vising architect of the Treasury one building plan a day. In a ride that took him he WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1931—124 PAGES. S. BUILDINGS | _Past the old State, War ~nd Navy Building, long a monument to the | whims of architecture and soon to he remodeled and transformed to fit ‘in with new surroundings, the President | rode to the site selected for the great | War-Navy group of buildings between Eighteenth "and Twenty-third _streets and Constitution and New York ave- nues, the erection of which will per- mit the already long-delayed demoli- tion of the sprawling Navy and Muni- tions Buildings on Constitution avenue. ‘Thence through the Mall, past the Department of Commerce Building, to be ready for agcupation next Fall, the recently completed Internal Revenue Building partially concealed from the Avenue by the old Post Office Depart- ment Building, slated for razing; past the ruins of Center Market, from which the new Department of Justice Build- ing will rise, and on to the Capitol, where another series of operations are under way. Entering the Capitol grounds he left the area where construction is under direction of the Treasury Department and entered the Capitol Hill area, where construction is in charge of David Lynn, ! (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) TWOUTILITIES HIT ININQUIRY UNDER $120000 PER YEAR P0ST OFFIE RENT wndl WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION 1 FOR SHOT I R OF 1.0 PRSONERS, ONE FATALY HURT Guards Quell Mutiny After Wrecking of Joliet Shops. | Official Injured. FLAMES IN CELL HOUSE | QUICKLY EXTINGUISHED | | Outbreak Laid to Belief in Public| Sympathy After Recent Deaths of Convicts. By the Associated Pre: JOLIET, Ill, March 14—Four con- | victs were shot, one fatally, as 1,100 re- | bellious prisoners ran amuck at the old | State penitentiary today, wrecking the prison shops, dining hall and kitchen in an hour’s mad rioting. | ‘Three of the prisoners were felled by sharpshooting guards on the high, cas- tellated wall, picked off one by one as they attacked a captain of prison guards at the door of the dining hall. Capt. B. | A. Davenport suffered a broken arm | and perhaps internal injuries. | The fourth convict wounded was | struck by a ricocheting bullet fired into the air by cell house sentries to drive the recalcitrant prisoners into their in- | dividual cells. Prison Officials Prepared. Star. E| " FIVE C TTEN CENTR FLAFWHERE = EN'I | | PROGRESSIVE SPLIT OVER FUSION SEEN Race Horse Killed, 75 Saved in Fire At Bowie Stables TWODEWEY WILLS START COURT FIGHT IN WASBHINGTON AND SUBURBS T — HOOVER 10 LEAVE. DURING WEEK FOR PORTO RICAN VISIT President Also Plans to Stop at Virgin Islands on Brief Voyage. BATTLESHIP ARIZONA WILL CARRY PARTY Two or Three Cabinet Members Ex- pected to Accompany Chief Executive. President Hoover will leave Washing- ton this week for a visit to Porto Riee, with & probable stop-over at the Vir- gin Islands. Date of departure has not been set, but is expected to be about the middle of the week. Official announcement to this effect was made at the White House lmat night. It was stated that the Presi- dent will not be away from Washing- ton more than 10 days. The President'’s purpose in making | this brief sea voyage is to secure & | short rest and, at the same time, set- | tie eertain administrative problems re- | garding American possessions in the | Caribbean. The trip will be made | aboard the reconditioned battleship Arizona, which is undertaking its 10- day test run at sea. The trial trip of the Arizona has been scheduled to Warned by fermenting discontent /810,000 Damage Results start March 17, ‘The report of the trustees will be at sharp variance with the one recently filed by attorneys for the bankrupt, which listed liabilities of $6,329,795.40 and assets of $6,503,253.77. It was understood that the difference in the two estimates of assets results uities in owned Shkropt, and o the. Bumber of uneoid notes sald to have been in the vaults ©of the company. Telephone Stock Sale Held in the financlal structure of the Alex- ANTI-MERGER AGT HELD OUTRAGEQUS' lllegal; Alexandria Gas Stock Plans Probed. Investigation into important changes |Judge Stone Upholds Decision of District Court That U. S. Get St. Paul Property. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, March 14.—The $120,000- All but about $75,000 of the $6,000,000 ties, unders consist _of tood, Totes secured by trusts which were re- leased without payment being made to the noteholders. Insurance Policy in Assets. andria Gas Co., one of the recent ac-! quisitions of the now mysterious owners of the Washington Gas Light Co., and a ruling by Corporation Counsel Bride that the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- Co. illegally issued and sold a-year rental paid by the Government for the commercial station post office at St. Paul, Minn., which was the sub- Jject of a scnatorial investigation this Winter, was termed “outrageous” in an opinion by Judge Kimbrough Stone of ‘Thé assets, as reported by the receiv- ers, yesterday appointed trustecs, con- & paid-up insurance policy for 000, a number of unsold notes, equi- in cash and on hand, and the office building strect occupied by the nmg a Pennsylvania ne $2,000,f 000 of its stock to the American were de- Telephone & Telegr: velopments force Wash abide by the La Follette anti-merger amendment which forbids sale of local utilities corporation holdings to foreign utility companies. Dispatches disclosing that the Vir- ginia Public Servi authorized the Alexandria Gas h Co. esterday in the fight fll‘wn public utiliti to to ice Corporation had Co. to maximum capital stock from District the United States Circuit Court of Ap- peals here today. Court Uphel Judge Stone, presiding judge of the ‘The opinion court, pointed out in his opinion that the rental annually was 3715 per cent of the actual value of the building, set by a commission of interested appralsers at $317,562, more than held the District Court »0d the trustees elected | I rday, Maj. Julius 1. Peyser, Henry . Blair and Michael M. Doyle, will pro- at once to liquidate the assets of the bankrupt. ‘Two Courses Open to Noteholders. The noteholders, it was explained, of two courses. pursuing the other. It was pointed out that the reccivers’ #tatement of liabilitles, while accurate “(Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) NEW JUNTA PLANS FAIR POLL IN PERU| Bouthern Factions Still Oppnle; Jimenez as Secretary of War in Cabinet. | | ownership inquiry for the Public Utili- | Mexico, ties Commission, announced that the|among members of the New Mexico Bureau of Investigation of the Depart-| State Legislature requesting a Federal him its | pardon for Albert B. Fall, former Sec- Bride re- | retary of the Interior. | By the Associated Press. | LIMA, March 14.—While efforts were being made to gain the support of dis- | contented military factions in the | South, the new junta headed by David | Samanez Ocampo today took steps to'| fulfill its pledge to restore constitu- | tional government in Peru by holding | *fair” elections. The provisional government ap- | pointed a committee to draft a new | electoral law, which will include an autonomous electoral body with minori- ties represented and secret compulsory vote. The committee is composed of nine persons and will present its pro- posals to the junta within 20 days. Telegraphic exchange took place to- day with the leaders at the Arequipa garrison, who object to the presence in the cabinet of Lieut. Col. Gustavo | Jimenez as Secretary of War. Samanez | ©Ocampo_succeeded Lieut. Col. Jimenez | as Provisional President last Wednes- | day. Aithough the government tonight ad- imitted the conflict with the factions at | A-equipa and Cuzco had not ended, it | Was stated that the Southerners were not 5o exigent as heretofore. ' TORTUR CHARGED TO ALABAMA MATRON Dismissal Demanded After Shown State By the Assoclated Press. ° : BRMINGHAM, Ala, March 14.—A uf.sluuve committee, investigating con- ditions at the Alabama State Training School for Girls here today recom- snended immediate dismissal of Mrs. fira B. Champion, superintendent, be- pause of cruel disciplinary measures. The commifiee’s Tecommendations will be presented. to Gov, B. M. Miller onday, Mfluth Elderry, chairman of the committee, said it had information that Mrs. Champion placed girls in a straight- jacket “on more than one occasion,” ' hair clipped for in- 3 mnd bad the fractions of 3 Inmates of the school have been kept $n solitary confinement from two to three months for running away, value, reached Mr, Bride just as he was iam A. Roberts, his assistant, who was | sent to Boston to conduct an intensive investigation into the ownership of the Washington company. rected Mr. new angle of the case. filed in Richmond by Hugh an Alexandria attorney. ity officials believe the company intends of the Alexandria Gas Co. capital stock ers expect to increase the capitalization E OF REFORMATORY GIRLS | change its $10,000 to 2,500 shares, without par additional instructions to Wil- Mr. Bride di- Roberts to inquire into this ‘The petition for the gas company was 8. Marsh, Paid City $750,000. rpose of the change was not ‘The X in the petition, but public util- set fol to increase its capitalization. The new owners paid the city of Alexandria $750,000 for the plant and franchise. Orville W. Atkinson, clerk cf the vVirginia commission, said an explan- atory financial statement attached to the petition showed that only 10 shares had been issued, having a par value of $1,000 a share, and that the new own- $249,000 through the sale of 2,500/ shares. | Attorney Marsh . flatly declined to| discuss any of the details in connec- | tion with the amendment to the char- | ter. He said he was “sorry.” but he| | was not in a position to disclose the | | purpose o f the change. Mr. ment of Justice had prom: “energetic co-operation.” I quested that the department’s most ex- perienced corporation _investigators be | | viction for ‘bribery in_connection with assigned to the inquiry. He was told thai this would be done. | The trail for evidence of the high finance involved in the transfer of the | gas company ownership is expected to | take the Federal investigators to New | York, Boston and Chicago. In these three cities are located the records of | the gas company negotiations as well as offices of the defunct Seaboard In- vestment Trust, which acquired control | of the Washington gas properties more than a year ago, and its successor, the | Washington and Suburban Companies. Checking Natural Gas. | Chicago_is the headquarters of the Central Public Service Corporation, which has taken over management of the utility holdings of the Washington | and Suburban Companies, embracing | the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Companies, the Alexandria Gas | Co. and the former Hyattsville Gas (Continued on Pa Cols room alone with her hands fhandcuffed behind her., Other inmates sald her wrists were bruised and swollen when she was released “Terrible whippings had been ad- ministered the girls frequently, wit- nesses told us. and we have one worn by & young girl when she was \med and the garment still bears b tains, “In one case, we were told a little girl was handcuffed hands and feet to & radiator for 10 hours. Another was reported to have been locked in a room during December for three days without clothing at all.” Another practice at the school, Mc- Elderry said, was that of locking girls in their rooms at 7:30 each night with- at St. Paul in its order that the Gov- ernment was to have immediate posses- sion of th: post office property under the sale pending a decision by the courts on the correctness of the Con- demnation Commission’s award. Prior to condemnation proceedings the Government had leas:d the prop- erty from Commercial Station Post Office, Inc., for several years. Condemnation Suit Filed. When $480,000 was appropriated by Congress for purchase of the property the owners and the Government failed | to come to an agreement on the pric® and the condemnation suit was filed. The appropriation was an effort to terminate the high rental. The high rental, Judge Stone said, “suggests & powerful incentive to the appellants (owners of the building) to! delay in every possible manner the ultimate determination of the condem- nation proceeding in order to prolong the receipt of such rental.” ASKS PARDON FOR FALL George Curry, Ex-Governor of New | Mexico, Starts Petition. Mex., March 14 () — an investigation. Hill sald, led the convicts to believe public sentiment was with them. warden. calls and shouts from the luncheon tables gave the signal of contémpt for LEGATION SECRETARY Senor Dr. Don Pedro Murqnez,j during the last few weeks, the prison administration was ready for the out- break. and within a few moments after the alarm was sounded from the dining hall the outer walls were manned by machine gunners and city and highway police surrounded the ancient stone prison on every side, armed with shot- guns, rifles and revolvers. None of the | prisoners was armed and there was no attempt to escape. | Warden Henry C. Hill, who took com- | mand of the prison yard at the first | alarm, attributed the rebellion to & feel- ing among the prisoners that the pub- lic sympathy was with them. The outbreak was a sequel to the kill- ing of three fugitives as they dropped | from the prison wall February 22 into | an ambush of guards—and the death of a prisoner from a clot on the heart last | week while he was in solitary confine- ment for insubordination, shackled, as is the customary punishment, with his | Wer.lldu cuffed to the bars above his Fire Is Extinguished. After the latter incident, although a ! coroner’s jury absolved prison officials of blame for the death, the State Leg- islature directed a committee to visit the penitentiary next week and make | This action, Warden “They thought today was a good day to take over the prison,” sald the The mutiny broke out at noon. Cat- the guards, and the 1100 convicts (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) LRl A WEDS EGYPTIAN HERE, Venezuela, Takes Miss Marie Bahry as Bride. A romance in the diplomatic corps of iwo years' standing culminated | yesterday “afterncon in the marriage | of Senor Dr. Don Pedro Marquez, secretary of the Venezuelan legation, and Miss Marie Bahry of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Alexandria, Egypt. The | Governor of New York. SANTA FE, N. Bride, who is directing the gas/George Curry, former Governor of New today circulated a petition The petition would be presented in | pastor, the Rev. John E. Briggs. officiat- | 3 Blood-Stained Dress Is' Investigators. case Fall's pending appeal on his con- the Federal oil leases is denied. Curry said Fall's health is such that his friends believe he should not serve a sentence. TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—34 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Schools and_ Colleges—Page B-4. Army and Navy News—Page C-11. Parent-Teacher Activities—Page C-5. D. A. R. Notes—Page C-9. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorjals and Editorial Features, PART THREE—16 PAGES. Society Section. PART FO 0 PAGES. Amusement Section—Theater, and Radio. In the Motor World—Page 4. Aviation—Page 5. District _of Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 5. Spanish War Veterans—Page 5 Serial Story, “Manhattan Night"— Page 7. American Legion—Page 7. At Community Centers—Page 7. W. C. T. U. Notes—Page 7. News of the Clubs—Page 8. Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page 8. Fraternities—Page 9. Radio—Page 10. PART FIVE—4 PAGES. Sport Section. PART SIX—12 PAGES. and Screen dress | Pinancial News and Classified Adver- tising. Organized Reserves—Page G, Home Gardener—Page 12. District’ National Guard—Page 12. Y. W. C. A. Notes—Page 12. PART SEVEN—24 PAGES. Magazine Section. . Notes of Art and Artists—Page 19, News of the Music World—Page 20. Reviews of the New Books—FPage 21. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 22. out lights. He said the buildings pre- the 'sented great fire hazards. “It is the unanimous opinion of the the | committee that Mrs. chnmp‘l’ln]rl: should ot A L e . 3 spend ‘&n days and nights in & be removed at once and we mend to the go mediate steps to Elderry added, GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. COLOR SECTION—8 PAGES. ellers; rZan ; orglun Annie; Mutt and Jeff; High- lights of History, ceremony was performed at 4 o'clock in the parsonage of the Fifth Baptist Church, 623 F street scuthwest, the ing. The attendants, who served as witnesses, were Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D. Grab, who live at 3701 Massachusetts avenue The bride is the daughter of the late Michel Bahry of Alexandria, Egypt, and Erooklyn, N. Y. and came to Washington Friday for the ceremony. The engagement of Dr. Marquez and Miss Bahry is of two years' standing, the bride before her marriage making her home in Brooklyn with her mother. Dr. and Senora_de Marquez will be at home at the Harvard Apartments after April 5. The Reduction of the St. Mihiel Salient Is GENERAL W Brookhart and Nye Among? From Blaze; Ruby Keller | Widow Makes No Provisions Those Waiting Proof of Democratic Liberalism. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Despite the evident pleasure with which Democrats are willing to welcome | the Progressive Republican group into the Democratic fold, some of the Re- | publican Progressives are still hanging back. It is true that Senator Norris of Ne- braska, who is regarded as a leader of the Senate Progressives, has de- clared the need of “another Roosevelt” in the White House, and that many Democrats are interpreting this to mean the need is for Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bug, irrespec- tive of what Senator Norris thinks of Gov. Roosevelt, other Progressive Re- publican leaders want to be “shown.” They want to be shown first whether ! it is impossible to get a Progressive Re- | publican into the presidential race. Barring that, they want to be shown | that the Democrats will nominate Gov. | Roosevelt and also that Gov. Roosevelt | is progressive enough to suit them. | Norris Sees Hoover Named. Senator Norris has said that the re- | nomination of President Hoover by the | Republicans appears inevitable. He | has also said that the formation of a | new liberal political party, capable el| | meeting success in the national election next year, is out of the question. And finally he has indicated very clearly | that he will not support Mr. Hoover in | 1932, pointing out that he did not sup- port him in 1928. | Some of the other Progressive Re- publicans are not so sure what they are going to do next year as Senator Nor- | ris appears to be. Furthermore, not- | withstanding the declaration by Sena- tdr Norris that a third party is not practical, some of the Progressives are pointing out that a third Prozressfl\'el party does exist today in at least one | State of the Northwest—the Farmer- | Labor party in Minnesota. They are more inclined, they say, to hop to that | party if it will put forward a presi- | dential candidate next year than they | are to go to the Democrats. The ~ Farmer-Labor party, which seemed almost on the brink of dissolu. tion, took advantage of conditions in Minnesota last Fall and elected a gov- erncr, Floyd B. Olson of Minneapolis, its first governor, by the way. Up in Minnesota today there are Republicans who look with apprehenzion on the pos- | sibility of the Farmer-Laborites under- taking to put presidentia! electors in the field next year in Minnesota, the Dakotas, Wisconsin, Nebraska and ofh- er States of the Ncrthwest and West. While they say there is no chance of such a ticket winning the election, it might prevent a Republican victory and (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) Complete PERSHING rote those words in his diary on September 13, | 1918, recording the victory by the American forces “which probably did more of the war to encourage t Gen. Pershing’s than any single operation he tired Allies.” Description of | T'his Historic Battle This Week in ‘The Evening Star Order your paper now and don’t miss this absorbing Also— Preparations for the Meuse-Argonne drive and the stupendous movement of battle area and 600,000 in, all at, night. ginni of great battle—Montfaucon taken by 79th Division. First Army pushes enemy back eight miles in four days. READ “MY EXPERIENCES IN THE WORLD WAR” EVERY DAY—EXCLUSIVELY IN THE EVENING STAR, narrative, 220,000 men out of the Beginning Dies in Stall. By a 8taft Correspondent of The Star. BOWIE, Md., March 14.—More than 75 horses, valued at approximately $200,000, were saved from death to- night when flames leveled two stables at the Bowie race track. Ruby Keller, 6-year-old mare owned by J. P. McGovern and valued at $3,500, was the only horse killed, de- spite efforts of more than a score of stable boys to save her. George Curley, 18-year-old stable boy, suffered a se- verely burned right hand while aiding in leading the terrified animals to safety. The Bowie Volunteer Fire Depart- Column 7.) STONE CONDENINS DEBENTURE PLAN Head of Farm Board Makes First Official Address in Radio Forum. The export debenture plan of farm relief was condemned last night by Chairman Stone of the Farm Board in | his first public statement on the pro- posal. The proposal, which has been ad- vanced in Congress for years, was i tated anew by Senator Borah, Republic- an, Idaho, and others attending the Progressive Conference this week. Speaking in the National Radio Forum, arranged by the The Washing- ton Star and broadcast over a Nation- wide hookup of the Columbia Broad- | Stone | “stimulated rush of exports from this | country would have a depressing effect on the world price level, probably as | much as the amount of the subsidy, thereby defeating its very purpose. | WMAL broadcast the address here. | casting System, Mr. said the| | | | | | the body of the tained until | Civil War. for Relics, Home and Ar- lington Mausoleum. Conjecture and controversy followed yesterday the flling in the District Supreme Court of the two conflicting wills disposing of the $765,000 estate of Mrs. Mildred McLean Dewey, widow of Admiral George Dewey, beside whose body she now rests in the erypt of Bethlehem Chapel of the Wash- ington Cathedral. For the priceless relics and trophies of Admiral Dewey, gifts from all over the world which she carefully guarded during 15 years of widowhood, Mrs. Dewey made no provision in either of the two wills filed + was specific provision posal of the stately Dewey mausoleum in Arlnigton National Cemetery, where naval hero was con- ts removal to Wi ten Cathedral. War Department cials are now confronted with a prob- lem that involves the legal ownership and disposition of the tomb. Another matter of general interest is the disposition that will be made of the old Dewey home on K street which AMrs. Dewey received as a surprise wed- ding gift on her first marriag: to Gen. ‘The Arizona will sail from Norfolk, Hoover will travel from Washington to Norfolk by train and will board the battleship at that point. First Vacation in Year. W. B. Hazen, U. 8. A, shortly after the | the Far the famous collection of Dewey relics which covered the walls of several rooms. Court Contest Started. While public conjecture arises. over the disposal of these objects of national interest, a contest over the sizable estate has be:n started in the District Supreme Court by Mrs. Dewey's step- son, George Goodwin Dewey of Chicago, only son of Admiral Dewey. Mr. Dewey was named as a beneficlary in two earlir wills of Mrs. Dewey, one before the death of his father and the other after his death, but is not mentioned in the will of May 2, 1925, probate of which is being sought. Simultaneously with the flling of the 1925 will, a will of Mav 2. 1923, which had been left with the Union Trust Co. for keeping, also was offered for probate. A court contest will decide who owns <he Dewey relics. These include the diamond-hilted sword presented to the hero by Congress, the bed and chair he occupied, his flags, loving cups and other trophies of a long and glorious naval career. A codicil provided for the transfer of | the body of Admiral Dewey from the | Urges Adjustment in U. S. crypt at the Washington Cathedral to Mr. Stone added other nati farm problems of their own “and can be counted upon to protect their grow- ers, just as this country protects its growers against dumping from abroad.” “I would like to suggest to our wheat growers and other agricultural pro- ducers,” he said, “that the desired re- sult cannot be obtained at the expense of agricultural producers in other coun- tries, which is contemplated in the va- rious proposals to subsidize the exporta- tion of crop surpluses, but requires ac- tion on the part of our growers. “They must make whatever adjust- ments in production are necessary and this can be accomplished on an equi able basis if they are properly organ- ized.” Outlining the aims of the Farm Board to control prices through regulation of production by co-operative association: Stone sald_“with agriculture represen | (Continued on Page 2, Column 1. SLEMP FIRM IS SUED ‘OVER PANTAGES FEE New York Attorney Charges Cool- idge’'s Former Secretary Owes Him $9,333. C. Bascom Slemp, former secretary to President Coolidge, and his law partner, Louis C. Titus, were sued yesterday in ;he,District Supreme Court by James Pat- terson, a New York lawyer, for a portion of a $70,000 fee the Washington attor- neys are said to have received for rep- resenting Alexander Pantages, theater magnate of California, convicted of an assault on a girl in his office in Los An- les. - n’rhroulh Attorneys Peyser, Edelin & Peyser, the New York lawyer says that March 10, 1930, he entered into negotia- tions with Slemp and Titus, whereby they were to represent Pantages, and he was to assist in certain phases an equal division of the fees having been agreed on. Patterson tells the court that Pan- tages paid Slemp and Titus $70,000 for i |their services and that he was entitled [2 | to receive $23,333.33 as his share of the fee. He has been paid only $14,000, hc said, and asked the court to award him judgment to_r‘m the mausoleum in Arlington because of his widow’s fear at the time that she would not be permitted to be buried beside him at the cathedral. Now that she is buried there, the executors in their petition for the probate of the will tell the court that it will not be necessary to carry out the provisions of the codicil. Mausoleum Offers Problem. War Department officials, however, are wondering what to do about the mausoleum. Some believe Mrs. Dewey was the owner of the tomb, even after Admiral Dewey's body had been re- moved, but Army attorneys are inclined to the viewpoint that the Gdvernment is now the owner. They argue, unoffi- cially, that the law of real property governs and that when one erects a permanent structure on the land of another, in the absence of an express agreement, it becomes the proporty of the landowner. They know of no agree- ment made between Mrs. Dewey and | the War Department. " In order to_clear the matter officially, (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) In this residence are housed | these his desk in the White House to meet dro\z(hhc situation. It was his intention on the contemplated trip last Fall to take id Cuba and Mexico, which Latin foreign trips. two trips to Europe, incident to the signing of the peace treaty. President Harding went to a by sea, and President Coolidge went to Havana to attend the Pan-American Conference there in 1928. This. however, will be the first time that President Hoover, in all of his travels_around the world, has_visited either Porto Rico or the Virgin Islands. As a matter of fact, it will be the first time that any President of the United States has visited either of these in- sular possessions. Is Formidable Ship. The Arizona is one of the largest ships in the American Navy, and, since its moderization, one of the most for- midable fighting craft in the world. It is a sister ship to the battleship Penn- sylvania, and is commanded by Capt. Charles S. Freeman, who until recently (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) FILM BLAZE CHECKED Amateur Exhibitor Halts Possible Serious Fire by Act. Possible development of a small fire into one of serious proportions was pre- vented last night, when Paul Edward Garber, curator of aeronautics at the National Museum, tore a burning mo- tion picture machine from the wall of a building at 507 E street and ran into the street with it. Mr. Garber, who is president of the Capital Model Airplane Club. was ex- hibiting a film to 15 boys when the ma- chine exploded and burst into flames. ‘The blaze was extinguished by fire- men, who arrived wfter Mr. Garber had carried the machine from the building. TWINS, 20 DAYS OLD, NAMED BY U. S. IN $800,000 TAX SUIT Infant Girls Are Among Cornelius Vanderbilt Heirs Assessed on Estate Chateau Sale Profit. By the Associated Press. NEW _YORK, March 14.—Ellen French Vanderbilt and Anne Colby Vanderbilt, twins, were sued by the United States Government today—and they're only 20 days old. ‘The infants, children of Mr. and Mrs. Willlam H. Vanderbilt, are named along with most of their kinsfolk in a sult to collect $£00,000 in profit, taxes and interest from the estate of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who died in 1899. The legal action was started after estate failed to balance of $9,333.33. | it ‘The money was placed in trust for the heirs of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who left a life interest in the chateau to hli; widow, Alice G. Vanderbilt, 80 years old. ‘The list of defendants in the Gov- ernment’s action reads like a section from the social register. They include Alice G. Vanderbilt, Gertrude Vander- bilt, Cathleen "vmdubflt Cushing, Flora derbilt u;lgcn"mllerfi Harry Payne ney, 2d, e_Nancy Whitney, Ger- trude Whitney Henry, Berklie Henry and Alice, Gladys, Sylvia and Nandine The complaint was aitered just be- fore service to include the twina.