Evening Star Newspaper, March 21, 1931, Page 2

A2 & NATIVES MAP OUT BICENTENNIAL PLAN Suggestions to Be Submitted to Commission—Annual Dinner-Date Set. A series of suggestions for considera- tion of the Washington Bicentennial Commission featured a' meeting of the Society of Natives, District of Colum- bia, at the Washington Club last night. The report on the subject, submitted by the president, Fred A. Emery, was adopted unanimbusly.. Arrangements for the annual dinner of the Natives, to be held at the Shoreham Hotel Thursday, May 21, also got under wa with appointment of a dinner com- mittee, including Mrs. J. C. Kondrup @s chairman of ting arrangements and Mrs. Zell Weaver Oatley as chair- man of the Committee on Tickets. The musical program was under di- rection of Mrs. Ella C. Robinson, chair- man of the Committee on Entertain- ment. The program included several claronet numbers by L. Terzo of the United States Marine Band, accom- panied by Mrs. Robinson: piano solo, Mrs. Pearl Hauer; violin solo, Mr. Fritz Hauer, with Mrs. Hauer as ac- companist, bass solo, Mr. Erbin G. Thomas; soprano solo, Mrs. Duncan Price; accompanist, Mr. R. Rapp, and tenor solo, Mr. Paul Garber. i Dinner Group Named. The society ratified the action of its Executive Committee in fixing the date’ and place of the annual dinner, always one of the features of the year for the organization. Announcement was made of the fol- lowing committee on the annual dinner: Mr. Emery, Judge Gus A. Schuldt, Mrs. Henry Fenno Sawtelle, Ralph L. Hall, Miss Emma A. Bright, Mrs. Oatley, Frederick G. Umhau, James F. Duhamel, ‘Mrs. Ella C. Robinson, Miss Etta L. Taggart, Mrs. Kondrup, Miss May E. Hungerford, Willlam H. Groverman, Mrs. Lewis J. Battle, John Boyle, Mrs. M. Z. Baughman, Mrs. Lisle Lipscomb, Mrs. Dora Knight Muir, Mrs. Alice W. Newbard, J. Eliot Wright, Mrs. Mary Estelle Yates. The committee on seating arrange- ments consists of Mrs. Kondrup, Mrs. ‘Battle, Miss Bright, Mrs. Muir, Mr. Duhamel, Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Lipscomb and Frank Dowling. Tickets for the dinner will be available from Mrs. Oat- ley, at 4101 New Hampshire avenue, or from other members of the Dinner Committee and from the office of Wil- lam H. Groverman, 807 Eleventh street. The dinner will commemorate the anniversary of the removal of the seat of Government from Philadelphia to ‘Washington in May, 1800. Discuss Signatures. Mrs. Anna E. Hendley, s member of i | THE EVENING STAR, WASHIN In Wake of Rioting at Joliet Prison WRECKAGE RESULTING 'FROM MUTINY AT ILLINOIS PENITENTIARY. the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Nation- al Representation for the District of Columbia, of which Theodore W. Noyes i¢ chairman, presented the matter of individual signatures of members the society on petitions to Congress for National representation for the District I Oongress. The society was one of the first to go on record in favor of Na- tlonal representation some years ago. Many individual members signed the fion& presented by Mrs. Hendley. A. Saul _was indorsed for the advisory council of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. Mr. Duhamel, the society's historian, told of the Thornton family, prominent in Washington annals of many years ago. Mrs. Willilam Thornton, he said, came to Washington in 1793 with her husband, who had been selected as architect of the Capitol. They lived in the house at 3321 M street but built the hou‘s:‘n 1331 F street in 1795 and Te. fully pictures the city life of a hundred years ago. e diary, he sald, is re- plete with a review of the books of the gossip of the times and tells of tor’s work as an architect. Mrs. ‘Thornton kept tab even on the fowls and farm animals, he said. Her hus- band died in 1829 after having filled the offices of architect of the Capitol, commissioner and patents superin- tendent. Text of Emery Report. ‘The Emery report the Bi- eentennial program, which the society adopted officially-as its recommendation 10 be presented at the meeting of pres- idents in the Federation of Citizens’ Associations tonight, follows: It is recommended that the Wash- ington Commission on tbe Bicentennial celebration consider the following in its plans for the Bicentennial, in so far as this city is concerned: 1. That there be a more extended use ot important dates, key dates, during ths year than is proposed in the com- mission’s present program here. The commission’s program includes Wash- ington's birthday, February 22; battle of Lexington anniversary, April 19; an- niversaries of Washington’s inaugura- tion as President, April 30; Memorial day, May 30; Flag day, June 14; In- dependence day, July 4; Labor day, ASeptember 5: Constitution day, Septem- ber 17; Armistice day, November 11; Thanksgiving, November 24. And the commission also might well consider the dates of Wasnington's election as commander in chief of the Continental Army; his attendance at Annapolis in the interest of improve- ment of the Potomac River; an en- twined tribute to Washington and Lin- coln on February 12, with particular reference to Lincoln’s characterization of Washington as the mightiest name on earth; July 16, anniversary of the action of Congress in establishing a permanent seat of Government which Washington swung to the present Na- tional Capital; March 28-30, anni- versary of the negotiations and agree- ment landholders, resulting in the proclama- tion of the boundarles of the Federal district; September 18, anniversary of his laying of the corner stone of the Capitol. with some anniversary date connected with Lafayette, Washington's great French ally, from whom he parted at Marlboro, and some anniversary re- lating to the mother and wife of Wash- ington. Urges Tree Planting. 2. A concerted plan of tree planting by Washington's city-wide organiza- tions, including the Soclety of Natives, the Association of Oldest Inhabitants and the Columbia Historical Soclety. 3. A joint historical observance meet- ing by these three socleties concerned in Washington's history, in accord with the commission’s co-ordinated celebra- tion. 4. An organized pilgrimage by Wash- ingtonians to such places as_Mount Vernon, Wakefield and Great Falls, 50 intimately associated with George Wash- ington. 5. A meeting under the auspices of 4he’ Citizens’ Joint Committee on Na- #ional Representation during the year. 6. Assembling at some date to be se- lected during 1932 of members of all the organizations affiliated with the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. 7. Cleaning of Federal bullding ex- teriors by the Fire Department or other- wise; restoration of beautification on the city's own premises throughout the city, and an aggressive municipal cam- paign to keep the streets of Washington clean of glass and other debris and free from clutterment by the present privi- leged taxicab stands scattered about the city on its leading boulevards. —— between Washington and the | The upper picture shows & corner of the dining rcom shortly after the riot had the wreckage in the prison kitchen. been quelled. Lower: View of some of —Underwood Photos. ARCHITECTS' JURY SESSION ARRANGED Pan-American Union Is Told of Plans for Columbus Memorial Light. The Pan-American Union has re- celved word of the appointment of & committeg of the Central Institute of Architects ot Brazil to arrange for the meeting of the International Jury of Award on designs submitted for the Co- lumbus Memorial Light House in Octo- ber at Rio de Janeiro. This light house will be erected in the Dominican Re: blic, with the co-operation of Amer- ican republics. The committee consists of Nestor Egydio de Figueiredo, president Central Institute of Architects; Cipriano Lemos, secretary of the institute, and Archi- medes Memoria, Autusto Vasconcellos and Jose Cortez, members. The jury of award, consisting of Ray- mond Hood, United States; Horacio Acosta y Lara, Uruguay, and Eliel Saarinen, Finland, will meet October 12. At a previous meeting, held in Madrid, Spain, to examine the designs in the first competition, 10 designs were se- lected for final elimination. ‘The architects competing in the finals are Josef Wentzler, Germany; Will Rice Amon, Helme, Corbett & Harrison; Rob- ert P. Rogers, Alfred E. Poor, W. K. Oltar-Jevsky and Douglas D. Ellington, United States; Pippo Medori, Vinconso Palleri _and - Aldo Vercelloni, Italy; Louis Berthin, Georges Doyon and Georges Nesteroff, Prance; Donald Nel- son and Edgar Lynch, United States; Joaquin Vaquero Palacios and Luis Moya Blanco, Spain; Theodore Lescher, Paul Andrieu, Georges Defontaine and Maurice Cauthier, France, and J. L. Gleave, England. HUNT MAN IN SLAYING Police Seek Kentuckian After Labor Leader Is Killed. CHICAGO, March 21 (#)—Police yesterday began & search for Lonnie Thomas, of Newport, Ky., for ques- tioning in connection with the killing of Willlam J. Rooney, labor leader. Chief of Detectives John W. Norton | revealed that Rooney had been ordered arrested three weeks ago for question- ing concerning a number of recent | bombings. Norton said that he had | information that Rooney, shot to death | by unidentified assailants, knew about the bombings. Rooney was business agent for the Sheet Metal Workers Union, a position he had held for about 16 years. Ochs Confident He| Would Have Saved | World for Employes AbsencePreventedAction. | Holds Sale ‘“Calamitous Chapter in Journalism.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 21.—Adolph B. Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, in an interview in Editor and Publisher, | released today, said that had he been | in New York at the time he is confi- | dent he would have saved the World | newspapers for the employes. “I think,” Mr. Ochs said, “that all | the employes needed was leadership with strong financial backing” He added that “altogether it (the sale by the Pulitzer interests) was an unfor- tunate and calamitous chapter in the history of American journalism.” “As 1 understand it,” sald the Times publisher, . “the Scripps-Howard people have acquired the property for $3,000,- 000; $500,000 cash, $500,000 in six months and $2,000,000 payable in five | years, with a further payment of $2,- 000,000 conditioned upon the success of the merger. I believe the merger will prove a success and the chances of the payment of the additional $2,000,- 000 are very good. “I am confident that had T been in New York (Mr., Ochs was about to re- | turn from Honolulu) when the matter became public through the application to the surrogate for permission to sell the whole property,-I should have saved it for the employes. I should have been quite willing to assure the surro- gate that the estate would get as much as, if not more, than was offered under the Scripps-Howard contract, and that the conditoins of the Pulitzer will need | not be disregarded.” At the time of the sale Mr. Ochs sent a cable to Roy Howard, who directed the newspaper deal, in which he said: “Regret and am sad at the disap- pearance of the World. Heartiest con- gratulations on your colossal achieve- ment. Welcome back to the Assoclated Press. Best wishes.” In his interview Mr. Ochs said to- da; “The World-Telegram, I think, will ultimately succeed in more than dou- bling its circulation, which will prob- ably exceed 500,000, and this alone will | more than justify the price paid for the | Veteran Flyer Loses Finger. SANTA BARBARA, Calif, March 21| (). —Ear] Ovington, first airmail pilot | and president of the Early Birds, an or- ganization of fiyers, who has been un injured in 20 years of fiying, lost a lit- | tle finger while working with a buzz saw in'his home Iaboratory here yester- ay. Base Ba Are You Keeping Denman Thompson, Sports E: of weekly radio chats by R. D. member of The Star's sports staff. Arnold Bennett Improves. A Those Washington Griffmen Threaten to Make It Hot for All Foes This Summer. SO daily with event at the Washington training eamp at Biloxi, Miss., in The Evening and Sunday Star. you'll be dished extra helping of choice base ball morsels in the form SO The Station, WMAL; Time, Tuesday, 6:30 P.M.; Subject— “About Those Griffmen” THEY’RE INTERESTING Il Fans! Up With Them? ditor of The Star, acquaints you Now, starting next Tuesday, ‘Thomas, a thoroughly informed PROBER STUDYING SHBDTAGE FINDINGS Says He Has Data Which May Bring “Interesting Developments.” By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, March 21.—Depart- ment of Justice agents, enlisting the aid of local authorities, today con- tinued their investigation of the pos- sibility of ramifications of the alleged plot of Paul F. Kassay to destroy the glant Navy dirigible now under con- struction at Akron. H. E. Hollls of the department’s Investigation Bureau, declared before returning to Detroit last night that he had information which “may lead to some interesting developments.” Hollis, one of those who obtained the arrest of Kassay at Akron, said he had gath- ered “a great deal of information,” but that it would ake four or five days to assemble it. Hollls' statement came after agents revealed they became _suspicious of Kassay when a Navy bombing plane was wrecked at San Diego, Calif., last September 3, killing Pilot W. Y. Ypharraguerre. Kassay, employed et the Great Lakes Aircraft Co. at the time the plane was built, was believed to have worked on it. He was dis- charged from the Cleveland plant for alleged Communistic preachings. HEARING 1S DELAYED. Inability to Assemble Important Wit- nesses Causes Postponement. AKRON, Ohio, March 21 (#).—In- ability to assemble important witnesses caused postponement. today of the pre- liminary hearing here of Paul F, Kas- say, accused of planning to wreck the giant Navy dirigible Akron. The hear- ing was assigned for next Thursday. Kassay is held under $20,000 bond. ANTI-SABOTAGE LAW URGED. ALEXANDRIA, Va,, March 21—Need for a Federal anti-sabotage law 1s seen by Representative Hamilton Fish in the arrest of Paul F. Kassay for alleged threats to disable the Navy dirigible under construction at Akron, Ohio. Speaking last_night before the Civic and Patriotic Socicties of Alexandria | the chairman of the special House com- mittee which investigated Communist activities last session sald the Kassay incident “should be a warning to all aircraft companies in the United States take immediate steps to protect themselves against Communist activities and sabotage.” = “There is no Federal anti-sabotage law, but there should be one,” the New York Republican added. “A mechanic who pulls a few bolts or rivets on a plane in a vital part before it is taken over by the Government is not com- mitting any violation of a Federal law, even if the plane later cracks up.” Kassay has denied he was a Com- munist. CHAPLAIN TO DECORATE UNATTENDED GRAVES Offers to Set Flowers for Kin Un- able to Come Here on Memorial Day. Conforming to & custom of former years at Fort Myer, Chaplain Ralph C. Delbert has offered to decorate graves at Arlington on Memorial Day for those who cannot come to Wash- ington. Arrangements have been made with a local florist to furnish standard floral decorations, which ordinarlly would cost more, for $2,;according to ean announcement from the War De- partment, but those desiring to do so may get more elaborate designs. Those taking advantage of this offer should send -checks or money orders to the Chaplain, Fort Myer, Va., and supply the name, rank and organiza tion of the deceased, date of interment, and, if possible, location of the grave. LIBRARY OBTAINS LINCOLN LETTERS Missive Expresses Complete Confidence in Plans of Gen. Grant. BY THOMAS. R. HENRY. Piece by piece, coples of the extant letter§ of Abraham Lincoln are being accumulated in the Library of Con- gress. The bulk of Lincoln’s correspondence now at the National Library is sealed for 20 years under the will of the late Rob- ert T. Lincoln, the Civil War President’s son. But scatter:d through the coun- try, largely in the possession of individ- uals, are zealously guarded scraps of Lincoln writing, ranging from hastily scribled notes to formal letters. These are extremely valuable because of their great rarity, in contrast to the masses of lettes signed by such men as Washington and Jefferson, which con- tinually are turning up, both in the United States and Europe. Letter to Grant, The Library has just obtained, from various sources, the largest addition yet made to the siender folder of Lincoln manuscript material. which is all that can be mad: available to the public. But among these are several characte: istic of the martyred President, includ- ing one written to Gen. U. S. Grant, April 30, 1864, which follows: “Not expecting to see you again be- fore the Spring campaign opens, I wish to express my entire satisfaction with what you have done up to_this time, so far as I uncerstand it. The particu- lars of your plans I neither know nor seek to know. “You are vigilant and self reliant, and pleased with this, I wish not to obtrude any constraints or restraints upon you. While I am very anxious that any great disaster, or capture of men in great these points are less likely to escape your attention than they would be mine. If there is anything wanting which is in my power to give do not fail to let me know it. And now, with a brave army and & just cause, may God sustain you.” Longest Letter to Hewitt. ‘The long:st of the letters was written in 1848, while Lincoln was a member of Congress, to one_Josephus Hewitt of Natchez, Miss. Lincoln at that time was a member of Congress and the let- ter indicates that he had at that time soms sympathy with the position of the slave States. This letter follows: “Your Whig representative from Mississippi has just shown me a letter of yours to him. I am jealous because you did not write to me.” Don't you re- member a long, lank f:llow who rode on horseback with you from Tremont to Springfield nearly 10 years ago, swimming your horses over the Macki- naw on the trip? Well, I am that same fellow yet. “I was once of your opinion, ex- presszd in your letter, that presidential electors should be dispensed with, but & more thorough knowledge of the causes that introduced them has made me doubt. Those causes wer: briefly these: The convention that framed the Con- stitugion had this difficulty, that the small States wished to so form the new Government so that they might be equal to the larg: ones, regardless of the inequality of population. The large ones insisted on equality in proportion to population. They compromised by on population and the Senate on States, regardless of population, and the Ex- ecutive on both principles, by electors from each State equal in number to the Senators and Representatives. Compromise Broken. “Now throw away this machinery of electors and the compromise is broken up and the whole yielded to the prin- ciple of the large States. There is one thing more. In the slave States you have representatives, and consequently electors, partly on the basis of your black population, which would be swept away by the change you seem to think desirable. Have you ever reflected on these things? But to come to the point, I wish you to know that I have made a speech in Congress and I want you to be enlightened by reading it, to further which object I send you a copy of the speech by this mail.” On May 24, 1861, at the very out- break of the Civil War, Lincoln wrote to Lieut. Gen. Scott, who then was in com- mand of the Union Army: “What think you of the propriety of yourself or the more immediate commander, Gen. Mansfield, taking the occasion of oc- cupying Alexandria and _Arlington Heights to make a proclamation to the citizens of these places, assuring them they are not to be deported, but can have your protection if they will accept it, and invite such as have left their homes and business to return. Mr. Nicolay will show you a telegram which will not displease you.” Opposed Death Penalties. In a short note to his Attorney Gen- eral Lincoln states that 300 Indians are under sentence of death from a military court for rebellion in Minnesota. He wants legal advice as to whether it would be possible to reduce greatly the number of sentences without naming any individual Indians,. leaving it to the discretion of the military officers to shoot those whom they considered the most dangerous. Most of the letters in the new Na- fonal Library accretion are hasty notes, dealing with appointments and patron- age, matters which were always trou- bling Lincoln. One is to a portrait painter who had painted him,from a photograph. He considers the' picture “perfect from a line immediately across the eyebrows down. Above this line I think it is not so good; that is, while it gives perhaps a better forehead, it is not quite true to the original.” POWERS, KEYED UP FOR ARMS PARLEY, JOCKEY FOR PLACE second is to prepare secretly and an- nounce suddenly a customs union with Austria, This latter step, as already said, is reported to be imminent. If the union is really made, it will undoubtedly be a real sensation in European affairs and is likely to cause many repercussions. Meanwhile Russo-German negotia- tions seem about to be reopened in co! nection with the renewal of the so- called commercial treaty of 1926. It is sald that Germany will request the diminution ‘of Communist propaganda in Germany, guaranties against Soviet dumping and reassurances that Russia does not contemplate a neutrality treaty with Poland, and will agree in return to work sympathetically with Russia in the disarmament conference. However, whether- Italy and France will really end their rivalry is still an open question. A whole series of politi- cal differences remains to be settled be- tween them. Great Eritain seems to have offered its mediation in these questions, but France seems to have rejected it. The negotiations, which are alreadv begin- ning through regular diplomatic chan- nels, will therefore be dual. Among the points to be discussed will be a new Franco-Ttalian commercial and navigation treaty, the status of Italian workers in France, the status of Italian residents in Tunisia and rectifi- ‘(‘tlfinn of the Libyan frontiers in Italy's ayor, Italy would also like a mandated ter- | ritory from the League of Nations and would like to have France recognize Italy’s dominance in the Adriatic, to the detriment of France's present ally. Jugoslavia, - TON, D. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1931, l T 1 i Receive Coveted Degree them. Callan. EV. JOHN AMBROSE McHUGH, O. P, both-teachers at Maryknoll, N. Y., as they appeared at the Dominican House of Studies in Brookland, when the thousand- year-old coveted degree of master of sacred theology was conferred upcn The last time this degree was given here was 10 years ago. In the group are, left to right: Right Rev. E. A. McKenna, in charge of the numbers, shall be avoided, I'know that | bullding of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception; Rev. Father McHugh, Right Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, rector emeritus of Catholic University, who was celebrant of the mass following the degree awarding, and Rev. Father TWO PRIESTS MADE MASTERS OF SACRED THEOLOGY. O. P, and Rev. Charles Jerome Callan, —Star Stafl Photo. HOOVER T0 REVISE INSULAR POLICIES {But Will Not Commit Himself While on Present Trip to Porto Rico. By the Associated Press. U. 8. 8. ARIZONA, March 21.—Al- though President Hoover is combining business with pleasure in his trip to Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, it was understood today that he plans no commitments on future policy there. ‘The President is looking forward to an opportunity to visualize conditions and after his study it is possible admin- istration policies may be reshaped, looking forward over a period of years to complete self-government. ‘The impression holds aboard the Arizona, which today was on her third day out from land and heading steadily toward Ponce, Porto Rico, that the trip can be taken as presaging more direct attention to insular problems. The President will make no speeches except for brief talks in reply to greeting cere- monials. The battleship today had passed from the balmy latitudes into those of tropic heat. Flannels and white clothes are in order; and most all aboard are taking as little exercise as possible. The shadows of the big guns afford ‘a wel- m relief from the oppressive sun- The President, after dinner last night with some newspaper men and officers he invited to eat with him, sat on the front row at an open-air movie of a de- tective story. A thousand officers and men were packed back of him on any- thing they could find for seats. The decks of the newly conditioned Arizona resemble those of an ocean liner with deck chairs, tennis nets and other such equipment not usually found aboard & fighting craft. The Arizona will arrive at Ponce Monday morning. HOOVER PREPARES SPEECH. | Reply to Welcoming Address Will Be ) Brief Monday. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staft Correspondent of The Btar. ON BOARD THE U. 8. S. ARIZONA, March 21.—After nearly three days com- plete rest President Hoover today is composing a short speech in response to the formal welcome by Gov. Roose- velt for the local committee at San Juan, Porto Rico, Monday. Mr. Hoo- tver's remarks will be brief, avoiding politics. The President'’s time as the Arizona steams to the Caribbean is spent in reading, walking and chatting with members of his party. As the semi- tropics are reached all are devoting more time on deck. Most of the read- ing by the President is about economic and political problems in Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands prepartory to conferences with governors and others. President today ended with a band con- cert and a group photograph with officers and members of his party, with the crew draped on big gun turrets and life boats. During the forenoon de- stroyer Dupont arrived from Guan- tanamo to relieve the Taylor as convoy, the latter turning back to Norfolk. ‘This change occured at & point 450 miles off Palm Beach, Fla. The Presi- dent and everybody aboard appears now in white. A hot sun is beating down upon the deck and awnings are up and deck chairs strewn about. Some are going in for deck sports. e Presi- dent’s exercise is confined so far to walking the deck. The President ap- pears thrilled over the opportunity to Joaf and sleep without interruptions. FAMILY WILL SHARE Incomes Are Bequeathed to Wife and Children by Late Un- dersecretary of State. By the Assoclated Press. ‘WHITE , March 21— The will of Joseph P. Cotton, Under- | Marin: secretary of State, who died in Balti- more March 10, was filed today. The value of the estatd was not given. He bequeathed household and per- sonal effects to his widow, Jessie Childs Cotton, and left her a life incdme from two-thirds of the residuary estate. A daughter, Isabel, of Bedford Hills, N. Y., and a son, Joseph P., jr., a student at Harvard College, equally in the income from the remaining third. Dr. Frederic Cotton, Boston surgeon, Inspection of the Arizona by the [0 MECHANIC INJURED BY HIT-RUN AUTO Man Hurled From Motor Cycle When Sideswiped by Car at Dupont Circle. | Sideswiped by a hit-and-run auto- mobile at Dupont Circle, John Chap- | man, 25 years old, of 349 O street southwest was hurled from his motor cycle and seriously injured last night. He is being treated by surgeons at Emergency Hospital for fractures of the pelvis and left leg. Chapman, a mechanic at the Otis Garage, 1215 Twentieth street, told. po- lice of the third precinct station that he was riding southward around the circle when the machine hit hig motof cycle and continued en without stop- ping. The mishap occurred at the P street intersection. An ambulance was summoned from Emergency Hospital and the injured mechanic was rushed to that institu- tion and admitted for medical atten- tion. Chapman's condition was first said to be critical, but was reported to be_somewhat improved today. Harry Phelps, 50 years old. of Oxon Hill, Md, was treated at Sibley Hos- pital for minor lacerations yesterday after he was felled by a hearse while crossing PFifth street and Florida ave- nue. Police did not hold Willlam Sardo, undertaker, of 412 H street northeast, operator of the car. Phelps was cal ried to the hospital by Henry Gilly of 70 Rhode Island avenue. DR. HERMANN MUEELER, GERMAN PACT SIGNER, DIES AT BERLIN IN COMA (Continued From First Page.) by most of the’statesmen, Mueller de- cided to undertake the responsibility, convinced that a worse fate would befall his fatherland if the German repre- sentatives refused to sign. He and Dr. Johannes Bell, the Centrist minister of colonies, made the’fateful journey to Versailles. ‘With the resignation of Chancellor Gustav Bauer after the Kapp putsch in March, 1920, Mueller was appointed chancellor. Mueller's second term as chancellor began in June, 1928, when President von Hindenburg invited him to form a new cabinet to succeed the Marx-Stressemann government. In October of the same year Mueller at- tended the League of Nations Assembly as_Germany’s representative. Hermann Mueller was born at Mann- heim, Baden, May 18, 1876. He mar- rled Fraulein Gottliebe Jaeger. They had two daughters, one -of whom be- came a dentist and the other a lawyer. Two brothers of the chancellor settled in the United States, one in Brooklyn and the other in New Jersey. Almost at the last moment before the World War broke out, Mueller was sent Paris July 28, 1914, in a desperate ‘attempt to concert action with Jean Jaures to avoid the catastrophe. His mission failed, however, Jaures having been murdered the day Mueller arrived in Paris. With the declaration of war, Mueller had an adventurous journey back home by way of Belgium and barely escaped internment at Maubeuge. ‘To distinguish himself from the thou- sands of Hermann Muellers in Germany, he was popularly known as Mueller- Franken, after the constituency he rep- resented in the Reichstag from 1920 on. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Marine Band this evening at 4 o'clock in the audi- torium, Marine Barracks. Taylor Bran- Arthur S. Whitcomb, sec- . .Wagner Wieniawski 1. P. COTTON ESTATE sure Zimmerman “In the Palace of the Caliph.” “Noureddin and the Fair Prine ‘Tschaikowsky “Sarabande.” ‘hloe and Daphne.” ‘Minuet.” “Chorus of the Shepherds.” Festal March” in O.... ..Cadman hymn— 'The Halls of Montezuma.” “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at Stanley Hall at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann, ”1:75 Anton Pointer, assistant: m Banderilleros’ re, w Paraphi ePenrngt Kore: Scents frorn the Gosga. TEvss Comigr interlude, “TH ‘Tgpnerville” Walkz song, “Si a prother, is left $30,000, and Miss Emily L. Brown, Mr. Cotton's secre- tary, $10,000. Final “The IVIKING RESCUERS HELD BACK BY ICE Balchen Plane, at St. John, Ready for Survey, With Missing Now 26. By the Assoclated Press. ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, March 21.—Search for the missing and com- pletion of the rescue of survivors of the wreck of the sealer Viking depended today upon an improvement in weather and ice conditions. Bernt Balchen, skilled Arctic fiyer, with two companions, was at St. John, New Brunswick, 686 miles away, wait- ing for weather which would permit them to fly their Sikorsky amphibian plane over the ice-filld wastes of White Bay in search of Varick Fris- sell, New York motion picture pro- ducer, and 25 others missing since the Viking blew up last Sunday night, Twenty-six Now Missing. The finding of two bodies has ac- counted for 2 of the 28 missing out of 155 aboard the Viking. A few miles off Horse Island, in White Bay, the rescue ship Sagona, with 110 survivors aboard, was fast in the ice. On the island were Capt. Abram Kean, Jr., master of the Viking, and seven of his men, who must wait until ice con- ditions will permit them to be carried aboard ship on stretchers. The Gov- ernment has sent the steamer Prospero with additional supplies for the Sagona. Balchen, with Randy Enslow, relief pilot, and Merion Cooper, organizer of :l:eslt".‘l:lnxe“&chmu expedition, arrived Homtpionn, New Brunswick, yesterday ‘The plane was ordered r conditioned for a ukewnmmy ":: soon as weather reports indicate a chance of success for the flight. That meant an abatement of the high north- g{:&;lfl?s;fiflch were sweej the of le Isle ting the low flying cef x.md i » Fiyer to Locate Missing. Balchen said he did not intend to attempt any part in the rescue of sur- vivors, but would concentrate his efforts on searching the ice floes for missing members of the Viking’s company. “h";?lz Canr;:b ]disd on the ice,” he said, an only direct parties I th%}ion disaster victims.” oran. e sealer Eagle, which has partici- pated in the rescue work in er:: B:y. had another band of refugees aboard today, the crew of 28 of the sealer Sir William, which was abandoned when she became weather-logged. Her crew set gr:u? the hulk before taking to their ories. Missing with Frissell is his camera- man, A. G. Penrod. Harry Sargent, the third member of the American mo- tion picture party, was saved. 300 STUDENTS IN RIOT LOUVAIN, Belgium, March 21 () — Three hundred students of the Roman Catholic University here were dis- persed by -police last night after a demonstration which ended in riotous d%rder. - e students met in a protest against a recent order of the burgomaster for- bidding demonstrations, in view of pre- vious discrders with Flemish Extremist students. They set fire to two carts, danced around the flames, assaulted by- standers and smashed the windows of the burgomaster’s house. Mounted police were called out and several of their number were arrested. 13,000 FIRMS SHOW EMPLOYMENT GAIN, LAMONT REPORTS (Continued From First Page.) voluntarily idle without pay and 13,504 on vacation. The following_ table shows the pere centage of gainful workers in 16 of the 19 citles surveyed who were out of a job, able to work and looking for s job in April, 1930, and January, 1931: Number of City. Birmingham Buffalo .. Cleveland Dayton Denver Detroit . Duluth . Houston . Los Angeles Minneapolis . New Orleans. Philadelphia . Pittsburgh St. Louis .. San Francis Seattle .... Number Out of Work. The following table shows the number out of work, able to work and looking for a job in the 19 cities in April, 1930, and January, 1931: - SeausesgotEaaSmnge ShbwomBNwWOONIMWOST Per cent of pOpu- Jobless. lation. “5.623 22,930 26,361 69,682 19,920 50,724 147,440 369,990 41,184 99,233 6,664 17,681 9,331 19,922 76,018 174,527 5,154 8,130 7,350 29,163 44,480 98,130 13,968 35,158 16,616 42,482 Popula- City and dace tion. 259,678 3,376,438 Ea mw me @ o - @ oo o0 oM ® DM Dw oM owk LU Dk DN Ea @ - 1931. | Houston— 1930. 931. Los Angeles— 1930. o4 2w ww 5w oo Ha oo 1,238,048 1931. New Orleans— 1930 wa 80,621 205,192 42416 97,414 79,191 168,322 71,168 168,322 20,307 60,026 1,265,258 " 1,867,312 1931. ssssee Philadelphia— 1930. 1,950,961 or Nw mw oa ok ws oR - Se wa oo 28,023 77,560 21,448 41103 43844 31,246