Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1931, Page 2

SINGLE RULE PLAN | FORISLANDS URGED Sgnator Bingham Advocates Co-ordination of Power _in Forum Address. Lo-ordination of the insular posses- sions-of the United States and the cen- tralization of jurisdiction under the In- terior Department, was advocated last night .by Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, chairman of the Senate Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs, speaking in the National Radio Forum arranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over a coast to coast network of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Senator Bingham pointed out that | there are almost as many kinds of in-' sular governments as there are island possessions. Hawail and the Virgin Islands, he said. are under the Interior rtment;: Guam and Samoa are under the Navy Department, and the Philippines and Porto Rico are under the War Department. X Some bureau of the Interior Depart- ment. Senator Bingham said. should handle the affairs of all of the insular possessions. Favors Co-ordination. “The problems of the Secretary of Interior,” he said, “are generally the problems of civil administration deal- ing with a wide range of subjects, many of which are similar to the problems which confront our island governments. 1 hope the day may soon come when he will be permitted to co-ordinate all of our insular activities. I believe this will be to the benefit of the national defense and will also make for the hap- piness of our wards who look to us for rotection and guidance.” P The United States, Senator Bing- ham, explained, has islands that are virtddlly an integral part of the United States and just as much under the Gonstitution as the States of the main- Iand, and it also has possessions where the Constitution and even the eight- ¢enth amendment has no influence. The Philippines were mentioned par- ticularly as an oasis flying the Ameri- cdan flag where citizens can buy and séll alcoholic beverages as they please. But, he added, the Filipinos do not abuse the privilege, and seldom is there gny evidence of drunkenness. | He sald he does not feel that the ‘United States should give up the Philippines _at the present time, but predicted that legislation granting in- idence would be passed by the Congress. Says Transfer Logical. : Senator Bingham described the re- dent transfer of the Virgin Islands from the Navy Department to the In- terior Department as a logical move. . “After all” he said, “the primary iness of the War Department and Navy Department is national de- - “It seems to me logical” he con- tinued, “that the departments which must attend to making the Army and Nayy keen, alert, efficient and effective are essentially unfitted to conduct the affairs of civil government. We do not elect professional soldiers to be gov- jors of our States, at least not while policy, to appoint naval officers 85 governors of our island possessions.” government. 1 - Virgin lan difficult and expensive and their tax ": He wlso said that thelr export on sugar that this could not be done until the tax laws are changed. Government Cost High. ‘The United States, he explained, has been spending more than $500,000 year on the Virgin Islands which have a population of 20,000. The le of the islands themselves contribute an- other $250,000, he sald, which makes the government of these very poor peo- ple cost $37.50 per capita. “No city or county of the United States,” he declared, “would think of supporting a government as expensive @s that. “What are we going to do about it?” he asked. “That is a question on which the new governor and the Sec- | retary of the Interior will have to ad- viss the Congress and to which we must give attention before very long.” The full text of Senator Bingham's address may be found in the editorial | section of today's Star. SHARP MEASURES PLANNED FOR CURB OF TAXI CONGESTION | (Continued From First Page.) 1o require taxicabs to carry meters. On the basis of this opinion the commis- | £ion proposes to map out a definite program for regulating taxi operations. The rate of fare which should be charged on a meter basis has not yet been considered. The commission, however, feels that the rate should be low, and it co rs_reasonable the | existing rate in New York, where the initial charge is 15 cents and 5 cents for each one-fourth of a mile. ! At pres:nt there are four different rates of fare in Washington. Two are | in effect on metered cab service and independent operators have two ratss. | One of the meterea companies charges 5 cents a third of a mile and mak:s no initial charge. Two other metered com- | panies make an_in: charge of 15 cents. e rate then is 5 cents for each on urth of a mile, One group of independ operating on a flat-rate basis charges 35 cents n proper.” so called. An- narges 25 cents in the s lack of uniform!ty in rates is an rowth of a series of rate wars which followed the adv e 35-cent flat rate se of s>veral independent companies \ its effort to fix a uniform taxi| rate the commission will bs confronted T 0 fundamental conditions. One t a large group of the taxi oper- avor the metcr charge because the rider pays for the mileage actually | covered. The oth hat the public favors the 20 Th! s be:zn | shown conclu: easing popularity of the flat rate service. The commission also intends to give consideration to the plight of th: long- | established companies that are now forced by existing conditions to accept only the cheap business. The small | taxi operator, it was pointed out, has| no office, no telephone and no fixed | stand. His business consists cf fares picked up on the street Calls and Overhead. The established companies, on the other hand, it was said, get their busi- ness chiefly over the telephone, which are usually calls requiring the driver to coyer a long distance to pick up his fare. These calls are the type which Tun up the taxi owner's overhead, parti- | cularly when he fails to get many pick- | ups on the street to compensate for the ! long runs. Another question the commission in- tends to go into is whether the taxi owners and drivers are making money. Financial returns of the operators filed at the commission throw some light on this subject, but do not give a com- plete picture of the conditions because they fall to show the earnings of the drivers who rent cabs from organized taxicab rental agencies. The regords show that the rental 15| char, 2! who volunteer. Lawyer Dies W. S. PENFIELD REPRESENTED U. S. IN IMPORTANT CASES. WALTER SCOTT PENFIELD. ‘Walter Scott Penfield, distinguished international lawyer, died of heart dis- ease yesterday afternoon at his_ resi- dence at the Wardman Park Hotel. Funeral arrangementc had not been completed up to a late hour last night. Mr. Penfield, who was 52, retired from the practice of law in December, 1929, because of ill health His condition becams serious about 10 days ago. Born in Auburn, Ind, he was edu- cated at Howe Military School, the Uni- versity of Michigan and George Wash- ington University. He had a long and distinguished career in international law, and represented the Government in several important cases. Mr. Penfield was an attorney in the State Department from 1901 to 1904, and during this period was assistant to United States counsel and American secretary of The Hague Court in arbi- tration of the Pious fund case between Mexico and the United States. Later he was professor of interna- tional law at Washington College of Law, and in 1912 was appointed attor- ney for the Panama Legation. He was United States delegate to the Pan American Financial Congress in 1915, and during the same year served as| delegate to the International Peace Congress at San Prancisco. He was appointed in 1919 to be a| member of the permanent committee for Panama. He was a member of the Institute of Politics, Williamstown, Mass, and as- sistant secretary of the Interparliamen- tary Union, Bern and Geneva. He also was a member of the Academy of | International Law, The Hague: a mem- ber of the Council on Foreign Rela- | tions; of the International Law Asso- | ciation and American Society of In- ternational Law. He was a former vice presient of the American Bar Association. Among his clubs were the Metropolitan, Chevy Chase, Lawyers. Racquet, National Press and Zeta Psi. ALIEN DEPARTURES FROM U. S. SURPASS NUMBER ADMITTED (Continued From Pirst Page.) prospective immigrants who are considered likely to become public ges. 2—By round-up and deportation of aliens. unable to prove their right to be in the United States. 3—By searching out deserters from foreign ships, recently declared by the Supreme Court to be liable to deporta- tion regardless of the statute of limi- tations. 4—By transporting destitute aliens The difference between the second and the third classes, it is explained, lies in the fact that an alien who can show he has been in the country more than five years is june from de- | portation by virtue of the statute of | limitations, whereas deserters from for- eign ships are, not. Government’ officials estimate that the sensational reduyction in consular visas issued has kept approximately 100,000 alien laborers out of the country. The number of ship de- serters in the country is put roughly at 100,000. Most of these would be in the 400,000 count. How many more aliens might be sent abroad by the voluntary arrangement will depend somewhat on the policy sought to be ! promulgated by tomorrow'’s conference at the Labor Department. In addition to all these groups, the Labor Department, co-operating with | local charity organizations in cities along the Mexican border, especially in the Los Angeles area, has helped to return large numbers of destitute Mex- icans to their homes. The Labor Department has $2,000,000 | at its disposal for this work of reducing the alien population. The latest offi-! clal table of immigrants made public shows only 3,147 alien admittances in February, as against 13,585 in the cor- responding month last year and 17,354 in _the previous February. agencies made money last year, and plenty of it, one company alone re- porting a return of 63 per cent on its investment, after deducting deprecia- tion on its cars at the rate of one-half cent per mile run per cab, or about $22 a month per cab. This comany has 119 cabs on the street, has ordered 25| more, and is planning to put in an order for an additional 25. | Cabs owned by this agency are rented to a driver for $4.80 a day, which al- lows 115 miles, plus 6 cents per mile for eich additional mile the vehicle is driven. The night rental rate is slightly | higher, being $5.40 for 115 miles. The mileage rate in excess of 115 miles is the same as the day rate. The returns of this company do not | show the earnings of the drivers who rent the cabs, and they are accountable to no one. The owners, however, in- sist all of the drivers are carning in excess of $5 a day. | The long established taxi companies, operating on a meter basis, all lost money last year, according to records at the commission, but returns for the | first three months this year indicate | that the tide has turned for the better. | The loss of the largest metered cab | company in 1930 amounted to $10,605. Another large metered cab company | lost $9,251 in the 12-month period. A| third metered cab company has lost consistently since it began operation. One large group of independent | operators, who own their own cabs, and drive them, in most instances, the re- cords show, is making money, but no enough to boast about. These owne drivers have filed individual returns with the commission, showing net in- comes ranging between $60 and $217 a month. The average income, how- ever, approximates $100 a month. In | several exceptional cases, the incomes | averaged $150 a month. The returns of the individual drivers, | however, are not taken seriously at the commission as a guide to the actual earnings. Truthful as the drivers might be, it was sald, some of them inadvert- | ently forget little purchases they might | make out of a day’s income. One driver reported he hought & ham out of his carnings and charged it up to profit and 0ss. Anyhow, an independent driver's earnings are uncertain from month to month. Here's the report of one driver, TiE_SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. APRIL 12, 1931—PART ONE. T | PARTY BOLT URGED T0 AID DRY CAUSE Mrs. Clement L. Shaver Asks | Women to Vote for Friend of Prohibition. Representatives of 12,000,000 women, aligned under the banner of prohibition, yesterday afternoon cheered a plea by one of their number, a prominent Demo- | crat, that they bolt their party if neces- sary in 1932 to support a dry candidate for the Presidency. ‘The speaker was Mrs. Clement L. Shaver of West Virginia, wife of the former Democratic National Chairman, who created & stir in 1928 when she | publicly announced her opposition lat Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, the party's presidential candidate. Speaking in the Washington Hotel at the “loyalty luncheon” which brought together nearly 1,000 delegates from varjous organjzations who have been at- tending the meeting of the Woman's National Committee for Law Enforce- ment and Law Observance, Mrs. Shaver called on her auditors to demand that both major parties offer dry candidates for the Presidency. Member of Commission. In event only one candidate is & dry— and she made it clear she expects the renomination of President Hoover by the Republicans—Mrs, Shaver said “un- questionably the course for the drys ta pursue, irrespective of party affiliation, | is to vote for the dry candidate.” Mrs. Shaver was one of a group of prominent women included in an “un- official national law enforcement com- mission,” who spoke briefly on _the sallent points of their respective find- ings in a prohibition study from which they had compiled a composite dry law report. Twenty-two women in ali col- laborated on this report which was pre- sented to President Hoover Friday as a “women's postscript” to the Wickersham | report. The report was made public yesterday at the “loyalty luncheon,” which was broadcast over WJSV. In general. the women's “Wicker- sham postscript” indorsed the Wicker- sham Teport, but it put the law en- forcement group equarely on record against suggested revision of the eight- centh amendment, the proposed relaxa- tion of the medicinal liquor laws or any movement for referendum, repeal or modification. Educational Drive Urged. To support the cause of prohibition it recommended “that a Nation-wide campaign of education in schools, col- leges, churches and clubs be substituted for the Nation-wide propoganda against | the law, and that this be fortified by good example in the home.” In urging the educational campaign, the report said its authors had found “the public not only uninformed, but largely misinformed, because many channels of publicity are virtually| closed to prohibition factual informa- | tion.” The summation of the report was presented by Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, the chairman, and then, in turn, fol- lowed the excerpts from her associates on the ‘“‘commission.” | Mrs. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, wife of Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania, brought applause with her declaration that “Pennsylvania is still law-abiding" She also said the weapons for en- forcement were at hand, but needed to be put more to use. Wanis to Be Shown. Mrs. Edward T. Smith, Missouri} legislator, said: “You know what| liquor can do and you know what pro-| hibition has done. Show me a sub- stitute for prohibition the Christian people of this country will accept. I am_from Missouri.” | The progress of the colored race under prohibition “was cited by Mary McLeod Bethune, noted colored edu- cator of Florida, whose report was pre- | sented by Edna Giles Fuller, member | of the Florida Legislature. “The Negro's development under prohibition bas been phenomenal,” she declared. | The speaker also gave her own report | in which she decried the lack of men | and money for prohibition. g Other’ members of the *‘commission” | whose views were presented were Helen Barrett Montgomery, New York; Cath-| erine Waugh McCulioch, Illinois; Edna Barnett, Ilinois; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, noted suffragist, New York; Mar- garet Keenan Harrais, educator, Alaska; | Dr. Jennie Callfas of Nebraska, who last year contested for the Democratic | senatorial nomination there: Mrs. Ray- mond Robins, Florida; Mrs. Irving| Fisher of Connecticut, wife of the cele- | brated Yale economist; Mrs. Richard | Dry Leaders : MR§. HENRY W. PEABODY. MRS, CLEMENT L. SHAVER. ROBLEMS FACING NEWINDIANVICEROY Civil Wars, Bombings, Kill-| ing of Officials Are Few Troubles. By the Associated Press. NEW DELHI, India, April 11 —When | Lord Willingdon assumes his duties as viceroy to India a week hence he will | find the country vastly more complex and infinitely more difficult to deal with than the Dominion of Canada Instead of having to handle 10,000.- 000 people with only two principal lan- guages, the new governor general will have 350,000,000 speaking 222 vernacu- lars, all crowded in a space about half the size of Canada Lord Willingdon will face a country not only clamoring for the right to | shape her cwn destiny but one beset | with acute raclal and religious cleav- ages and animosities, with Hindus out- numbering Moslems by three to one. Hindus Worship Cows. To be sure every viceroy has had this | Moslem-Hindu communal problem to struggle with. Observers in India say it will always exist as long as the Hindu worships the cow and the Moslem eats it, for it is the so-called deszcration of his animal that causes most race riots. Lord Willingdon, however, will find racial strife sharply heightened and the country in a state of nervous apprehen- sion in consequence of the recent open= ing of civil war in Benares, Agra, Mire zapur and Cawnpore. In the last named city about 500 persons were killed. All efforts of Mahatma Gandhi and other leaders to establish unity between these two great racial groups, consti- tuting more than 300,000,000 of India's population, have failed as did all en- deavors at the first round table confer- ence in London. $65,000,000 Budget Deficit. Other serious problems facing the new viceroy are India's unprecedented budget deficit of $65,000,000, the Indian boycott of British goods, a disastrous decline in trade, the warlike attitude of Afridi tribes along the northwest fron- tier, ‘rebellion in Burma, bombing of | trains and recurring assassinations of Mrs, Arthur Hedstrom, New York; M J. O. Ross of Texas, Alice Hegan Rice, Kentucky: Mrs. Walter Du Bois Brook- ings of Alexandria and Massachusetts; Mrs. Richard Aldrich, wife of the New York Representative; Mrs. J. C. Urqu- hart of Los Angeles, and Mrs. W. R. Pattangall of Maine. Day of Prayer. A reception was held last night, and the meeting will be concluded this after- | noon, when a “national day of prayer” will be observed from 3 until 5 o'clock at the Washington Hotel. Dr. J. R. Sizoo, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, and Rev. Dr. Rogers, a representative of the colored churches, will participate. DEMOCRATIC WOMEN MEET. National Law Enforcement League to Convene Tomorrow. | ‘The National Woman's Democratic Law Enforcement League will hold an all-day session at the Shoreham Hotel tomorrow, when officers will be elected and reports of officers received. At noon the delegates will go to the White House to pay their respects to President and Mrs. Hoover. A pipe organ concert by Miss Irene June will launch the meeting at 9 o'clock, and the business session will be held until noon. After the White House visit the delegates will return to the Shore- | ham for lunch. The afternocon will be given over to addresses by Mrs. Edward Thurman Smith, Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, Mrs. H. H. Hendrick and former Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma. Allen A. Potter | will sing. | In the evening, at 7:30 o'clock, Prof. | R. Dean Shure and a chorus of 50 voices will give a concert, and there will be speeches by Mrs. Clement L. Shaver, | Dr. Jennie Callias, Mrs. Jennifer Broad- dus, Miss Maude Saunders, Mrs. J. G. Ross, Daniel C. Roper and Miss Edna Barnett. Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson, the presi- dent, will preside. [ MACHADO’S FOES STATE | BASIS FOR OPPOSITION| | f Cuban Nationalists Demand Res- toration of 1801 Constitution on New Elections. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, April 11.—Cuban National- | ists, among them former President Menocal, today formulated a platform | on which they base their opposition to raided premises in the 5500 block of |an intricate knot was Butler. President Machado. British officials Meanwhile, India is disturbed with new picketing by Nationalists of liquor shops and stores selling foreign cioth, a condition which neutrals say is bound to result in open clashes sooner or later. Ithough a truce exists between Gandhi and retiring Viceroy Irwin, the | government must always be on the alert against bombing outrages, political murders, the wrecking of trains and other terroristic acts by those who re- fuse to_adhere to Gandhi's creed of non-viclence as a means of winning in- dependence. WIFE CHARGES ATTACK WITH AX BY HUSBAND Sued for Divorce—Pistol Threat Also Is Alleged. By the Associated Press. CHARLOTTE, N. C. April 11— Charges that Willlam Nebel, head of the Nebel Knitting Co., had attacked her with an ex were made by his wife, Mrs. Bertha Nebel, in affidavits sub- mitted today to Judge W. H. Harding, before whom she brought suit for sep- arate support of herself and two chil- dren. Judge Harding reserved de- cision Nebel, formerly of Newark, N. J. submitted numerous depositions deny- ing his wife’s allegations. Another charge preferred by Mrs. Nebel was the allegation that her husband had been guilty of improper conduct with women guests in their home. Mrs. Nebel asserted that her hus- band, while intoxicated, threatened her with a pistol, and then, after she had taken refuge in a locked room, with an ax after he had used the latter to break down the door. On an- other occasion, she alleged, he threw a fork at her at a dinner party. MURDER CHARGED TOWIDOW AND SON Virginia Pair Linked to Dedth of Dairyman at Amelia by Slayer’s Story. | By the Associated Pre. | AMELIA, Va, April 11—A grand jury today returned murder indict- ments against Mrs. Jeston A. Jones and Oscar Jones, widow and son of J. Will Jones, prominent Amelia County dairy- man, for whose death last January Richard Lee, colored farm hand, was convicted of murder yesterday. The indictments, returned by a spe- cial grand jury summoned immediately after the conviction of Lee, contained four counts charging murder, procuring murder, inciting to murder and aiding | and abetting in the commission of murder. | "'Trial for Mrs. Jones was set by Judge | Edwin P. Cox for June 23. No date | was named for the trial of Oscar Jones. | Bond for each was fixed at $6,000. | Hunter Watson of Crewe, attorney for Jones and her son, sald bond be made for his clients. Slayer Implicates Pair. Lee, convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 20 years in the peni- tentiary, testified at his trial that both Mrs. Jones and Oscar Jones had offered him $25 to commit the crime. Lee was one of the witnesses called before the grand jury today. Lee maintained on the stand that the $25 offer was made to him, although he repudiated the truth of a confession made to officers that he did the killing. Jones was found dead in bed on the morning of January 9 with a shotgun wound in the head. The defense in the trial of Lee sought to establish that it | was a case of suicide. 8. C. Jones, brother of the slain man, |saild today that Mrs. Jones had been | married twice, her first husband being | Hampton McCraw of Carroll County. McCraw was killed in 1900 by James | Quinn, colored, after an altercation in a store at Sylvatus, where McCraw | clerked for Mrs. Jones' father. Mrs. Jones, before her marriage, the brother said, was Miss Jeston Allen of Carroll County, daughter of Jack Allen and a niece of Floyd Allen, the latter one of the central figures in the Hillsville | tragedy in 1912, when three court offi- cials, including the judge, were shot to death, a juror was fatally wounded and several other persons were injured. Mrs. Jones' father, Jack Allen, was not a participant in the shooting. Uncle Electrocuted. The shooting in the Hillsville case started after Floyd Allen had been sen- | tenced to_jail for interfering with an | officer. The Allens were held respon- | sible, but died firing the first shot. | Floyd and Claude Allen were later | electrocuted. They denied there was any conspiracy among members of the family and Jaid the blame for the shoot- ing on a bitter political factionalism that had grown up in the county. Pardons were granted to several members of the Allen family who were sentenced to the penitentiary in con- nection with the case. The last of | these pardons was granted in 1926. | Mrs. Jones was summoned as a wit- ness in the trial yesterday, but refused to testify on advice from counsel. 'MARYLAND U. JOINS UNIT OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN Class A Rating and Faculty Stand- ( ards Admit School to Association. Special Dispatch to The Star. COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 11— Word was received here tonight from Miss Adele Stamp, dean of women of the University of Maryland, that the Jocal institution had been admitted to the American Association of University Women. The organization is holding its fiftieth anniversary celebration in Boston. | The main requirement for admission is that an institution must be of a class | A rating. Other requirements are that | the faculty must exceed a certain num- ber, with a stipulated number holding Ph. D. degrees, and that the facilities of all kinds must be adequate to handle the enrollment of coeds. Maryland is a member of the associ- ation of American Universities, symbolic of class A rating. ‘Three persons were hurt when the automobile in which they were riding crashed into a telephone pole on Rhode Isiand avenue northeast near the Dis- trict line last night. | Clarence Bache, 1000 Twenty-second street, suffered a broken leg and minor cuts to his body; George Gray, 3975 Windom place, received slight lacera- tions to the body, and Clayton Abell, 1413 Wisconsin avenue, suffered a broken wrist and shock. According to police Bache, who was driving the car, collided with the pole when he swerved to avoid striking a | pedestrian. The injured persons were | treated at Sibley Memorial Hospital. | HUSBAND'S SUICIDE j HANGS HERSELF Charlotte Xnitting Firm Head! | | husband and three children to return to China, Mrs. Moy killed herself while | visiting in_the Massachusetts city. | Moy, a 26-year-old graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, attempted to end his life in a similar manner at his apartment, 2431 E street, on November 25, but his attempt was | frustrated by his wife. | Mrs. Moy awoke shortly before mid- | | night and found her husband hanging by his necktie from a bedpost in their bedrocm. She ran to the kitchen, got a | knife, cut him down and called police for aid. ‘The engineer was rushed to Emergency Hospital and later was admitted to Gal- | linger Municipal Hospital for further | attention. He steadfastly refused to as- sign any reason for his act after his recovery several days later. It was learned here that Moy had been exerting every effort to secure an | adjustment of his wife's status so that | she might not be taken from him, but his labors apparently bore little fruit | Mrs. Moy, a graduate of a Boston business coliege, was married to Moy {in China in 1924. MAN “BURIES” SELF AS POLICE SEIZE: FOUR, STILL AND LIQUOR Suspect Covers Body With Earth as Another Hides in Bath Tub to Escape Raiders. John Walker and Theodore Butler found nevel places to hide. 1t all happened when the vice squad Foote street northeast and arrested four Policemen were about to give up the hunt when they hlpgenzd to {look in a bath tub—there doul ]ed'ri}l;\tg e: | placed him under arrest and continued | house. The platform makes these demands|men and seized a 250-gallon still, 48 | the search. on the Machado government: Revision of the eonstitution, restoring that of ! covering the period from July 1, to March 31, inclusive: July, $96; December, $107: [ February, March, $123. | 1901; reofganization of existing political convocation of a general election in the new electcral census. half gallons of liquor and 50 barrels of mash. In the front room of the dwelling mber, $55; October, | parties and formation of new ones; police arrested Reuben Dorsey, 44, and Thomas Farrell, 35, both of the 700 $93 and immediate future and provision for a block of third street. Then they began a scarch of the In the back yard they found Walker, almost, but not completely, buried in & big plle of dirt. They disinterred him. 1 four men were charged with! manufacture and possession of liquor and possession of jquipment for the Manufactire ot Bafk Razing Old Bijou Theater WORKMEN START TEARING oldest of Washington theaters will be a pile of dusty bricks in a few weeks. The Bijou at Ninth street and Louisiana avenue, a site soon to be cleared in accordance with the Federal building program, hardly has entered the picture of theatrical ‘Washington for 20 years—but in the !day of its glory it boasted a presiden- tial box and some of the most cele- brated of American actors and actresses trod its boards. Few theaters, old newspaper accounts | reveal, have known a more varied his- tory. The Bijou has known the highest and lowest of the American stage, from Shakespearian repertoires to the depths of melodrama and burlesque. Its au- diences have been made up at one time {of the most cultured of Washington soclety and at another of the dregs. The building was erected in 1850 as a carriage factory and shortly after- ward was used as an auction room. lation of Washington was greatly in- creased by the soldiers billeted here and there was a demand for light en- tertainment, it was first fitted up as a variety house by Willlam L. Wall. It continued as “Wal's Opera House" until | 1871 _when it was leased by another | proprietor. Then it was badly damaged | by fire and, when restored, was leased by John Ford, who had been pro- | prietor of the fil-famed Ford's Theater on Tenth street where Abraham Lin- coln was assassinated. Had Many Best Plays. The days of its greatest success fol- | lowed. "Many of the best plays which | came to Washington were presented there. Among the noted folk of the | stage who appeared in the old build~ ing were Charlotte Cushman and Joseph Jefferson. The corner became a focus of ~Washington theatergoers. ‘The Bijou was patronized by President Chester A. Arthur. During this stage of its career, in 1887, the manager invited the Wash- ington press—to quote a newspaper ac- count of the time—“to see the new mechanical moving roof, the only one of its kind in the United States. All the audience has to do is to gaze upward and the starry heavens are at once visible, The roof is operated from the stage. While the press was inspecting the new and handsome chairs Prof. Pistorio’s band discoursed beautiful music. A bountiful repast provided by Manager Haynes was partaken of by the guests.” But these high-hat days were short for the Bijou. It appears to have been and market district. Across the street During the Civil War, when the popu- | badly located, in the midst of a saloon | DOWN FAMOUS PLAY HOUSE. was the old “central guardhouse and police headquarters.” The theater was convenient for the “toughs” of the | neighborhood. Ford's OPen. House | went out during the eighties. The | name was changed to Bijou—for some reason or other a stock name for | American theaters. Then came the days of cheap melo- drama, which continued almost to the days when burlesque was becoming | popular. Naturally the character of the audiences changed in accordance | with the style of entertainment and more in keeping with the character of | the neighborhood. “Streets of New York,” “Darkest Russia,” “Lights of | London” and all the rest of the hair- | raising, tear-releasing melodramas of | the nineties were presented. There | were tough audiences, especially the gallery crowds. At one time, it is re- corded, the manager stretched a net across the front of the stage to protect his scenery and the actors from the showers of eggs and decayed vegetables | brought in from the nearby markets. Starts Sunday Theatricals. ‘The Bijou broke the ice for Sunday | theatricals in Washington. Presumably, | there was no law prohibiting theaters | from remaining open on the Sabbath, but during the 90s it simply wasn't | being done. The very idea was so hor- | rible that everybody thought it must be | illegal and the Bijou management went | about the innovation cautiously by ad- | vertising “sacred concerts”—still the | usual stratagen in cities with rigid Sab- | bath laws. The current performance | :‘ls made i"slg:d"r by the ing of a | hymn or playing of a rel lece b; m%;xchesln&d Bt i | ese “'sact concerts” proved u- | lar, nobody interferred because ngggdy | had any authority to interfere, and | eventually the ‘“sacred” part was ook sdvaniage of the poecedent ok advan of i | the Bijou. e - But the old theater, surrounded by | markets, was coming rapidly upon evil | days. There was frequent changes of management and occasional fi sea- sons, interspersed with seasons when there was hardly any patronage.. Bur- lesque came in. The Bijou began to go gut of the Washington theatrical pic- ure, It started as a carriage fact . It ended its days as an mursm bus terminal and with market stalls on the ground floor. Upstairs some of the theatrical fittings still remained. Now everybody has moved out and the gray old building, placarded with removal | %fis, is & lifeless shell—already half a The curtain has rung down on the melodrama. PHILADELPHIA GETS TRANSIT RECEIVERS iCourt Charges Swindle of City and Ends Mitten Group’s Operative Capacity. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, April 11.—After 18 months_of court procesdings, Judge Harry 8. McDevitt, in Common Pleas Court, today named three receivers for the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. Mismanagement, and not insolvency, was given by the court as the reason for the receivership. The company owns or operates under lease all the street car lines in Phila- delphia and many bus routes in and outside of the city. The action was taken on suits filed by the city of Philadelphia, which is a partner in the company, and by Wil B. Hadley, city controller. They sought to have the transit company give a full financial accounting to_the city, to oust Mitten Management, Inc., which manages the transit company, and to return to the city certain profits that went to the company for the man- agement of the Broad street subway. The receivers are instructed to cancel the present arrangements between the transit company and Mitten Manage- ment, and to undo numerous transac- tions carried out by Mitten Manage- ment in the operation of the transit company property. ‘The court’s opinion refers to the whole network of Mitten Management, Inc. and its subsidiary and taxicab companies as “financial vultures” and a “colossal conspiracy against the tax payer.” The transit company is accused of breaking its operating agresment with the city of Philadelphia, which agree- ment, the court declared, made possible a “gigantic swindle. BISHOP CANDLER RAPS By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, April 11.—Bishop Warren A. Chandler, in a letter today to the Atlanta Constitution, said the position taken in a recent action of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in Amer- ica in regard to birth control did not represent the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. “The Federal Council of Churches,” the bishop wrote, “is comp-sed of mem- bers appointed by several ¢f the Protes- tant churches and it is designed to rep- resent these churches within proper limits. “Its deliverance on the matter of birth control has no authorization from y churches nu;yxmlng it, and what It has said I regard as most unfortunate, not to use any stronger words.” The council recently sanctioned the principle of birth control. BIRTH CONTROL ACTION | CAVADA FAVORABLE TOPOER ROIECT ‘Railways Minister Thinks Do- ‘ minion Will Soon Reply to Note on River Plan. | By the Associated Press. Indications that Canada would act | favorably shortly toward making the ist, Lawrence waterway project a reality were given Secretary Stimson yester- ay by R. J. Manion, Canadian min- "L!t,cr of railways and canals. | During a conference at the State | Department the minister told the Sec- | retary he believed the Washington Gov- ernment could expect soon a favorable reply from Canada to the American note of last September asking the at- titude of the government of Premier R. B. Bennett toward the project. Hanford MacNider, American Minis- ter to Canada, who flew here Friday with Manion on a private visit; Hume ‘Wrong, Canadian charge d'affaires, and J. Theodore Marriner, chief of the Western European division of the State Department, attended the conference. The Canadian cabinet member told Mr. Stimson he could not speak for- mally on behalf of the Canadian gov- ernment of the prime minister. He recalled to the Secretary, how- ever, that Mr. Bennett since his first speech in the campaign which elected him had advocated the waterway. He added he knew of nothing since then to change the attitude of the premier. The conference was the first on the proposed waterway to take place in | Washington " since the _recent visit of Mr. Bennett to the Capital. At that time it was understood the premier dis- | cussed the question informally with President Hoover after a dinner at the | White House. Minister Manion lunched at the | Canadian Legation and called on Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambassa. dor, before leaving by train for Ottawa. CORRECTION. Mrs. Hacker, Who' Died Yesterday, ‘Was Not Mr. Clark Griffith’s Mother-in-Law. In a special dispatch to The Star yesterday from_ Danville, Ill, reporting the death of Mrs. Emma Hacker, 92 years old, it wi n:rud that Mrs. Hacker ROYALTY OF JAPAN GREETED WARMLY Prince and Princess Taka- matsu Enjoy Big Day in “City of Dreams.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 11.—Prince and Princess Takamatsu of Japan enjoyed & big day in their “city of dreams” to- day, despite the fact they are tech- nically incognito. There was a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, military salutes and escorts, waving throngs, bands, a wel- come at City Hall, a luncheon with Mayor Walker as host, a visit to the National Broadcasting Co. studio and a mw broadcast in their honor, a tour ugh_the Chrysler Building and a dinner from the city’s Japancse sesi- dents, * Tomorrow they will rest. Traffic at Standstill. "fi met;mlu;n d!ha royal auuple ugh de] ents de- voted to oriental art. e Mounted police and cavalry of the New York National Guard escorted the party down Fifth avenue from the rnuuuml u‘;‘:hflel City Hall for the mayor's Wwelcome. Traffic was sto] and crowds lined the sidewalks. D At City Hall plaza soldiers, sailors and Marines flanked a crowd of more than 4.000. Army and police bands played the American and Japanese anthems. Assisting the mayor at a 40-minute reception was a special committee, headed by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University. r’l;\l;:(rflnce cl’l;;d New York the city of reams. speech, in Jaj was broadcast. 552 S Speech of Prince. “I am deeply moved ir cordial welcome tendered to Lhzypmm and myself in the name of your country,” he has my dreams; for four said. years we have dreamed of visiting this great city. And as we stand here and listen to friendly words of greeting, we feel that this city is as generous as it is great. May we ask you, Mr. Mayor, to give to the people of this great and generous city our thanks for their sincere greetings.” Kensouke Horinouchi, Japanese consul general in New York, translated the Tosponme. . Butler tribute to Ja for its cunmbll'm to the !ln:‘nlfl.i, medicine, commerce and industry, and world peace. Mayor Walker declared the visit of t.h;!vnnce and princess will promote “a better feelin finer londay the royal couple will review the cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point. GIANT RUM RING DEALT DEATH BLOW IN NEW ORLEANS. (Continued From Pirst Page.) fixed at $5,000. The will be arraigned Monday afternoon. The agents said they had learned the radio station was used to direct the rum ships in slipping between Coast Guard craft as they approached the Gulf Coast of ippi. DRIVE AGAINST ALCOHOL Woodcock Says Investigation Has Been on for Some Time. Prohibition Director W nounced last night the seizure of a radio station and the arrest of eight in New Orleans was the be- Sistent atterpt. 1o mussie aicons] ovs sistent attempt to smuggle to 3& iUnmd States (r"vum the Gulf of exico.” Woodcock said the arrests were the outcome of an investigation by Federal officials “that has been under way for some z Informed of the arrests at*his home in Salisbury, Md., Woodcock said the trail had been opened by the seizure of similar alcohol first at New Orleans and later in the interior of Indiana. May Come From Cuba. “This would indicate,” Woodcock said, “operations eandm& over a con- siderable territory, and the investiga- tion of the ramification of these ac- tivities was begun more than a mcnth 2go. “It is by no means improbable that this alcohol has been coming in from Cuba, but nothing has been definitely Mrs. Hacker was the motl of Mr Griffith’s sister Min died h‘l’fll Mrs. Griffith, wl good th, no relation of regrets the Hacker. The established along this line. It is a fact, however, that very little illegal liquor has been coming in from Canada since the passage of their law limiting the shipments of liquor, save for a small quantity known to be trickling into Detroit. 1t is possible that smug- gling activities have been concentrated, because of this law, along the Gulf of Mexico, particularly at New Orleans.” UNKNOWN IN CHICAGO. Officials Uable to Identify Trio Taken in New Orleans. CHICAGO, April 11 () —Govern- ment prohibition agents here were un- able to identify three men arrested in dry raids at New Orleans today who said they were from Chicago. The three gave their names as Haim, Hart and Miller. United States District Attorney George E. Q. Johnson said the New Orleans syndicate had no local con- nection so far as he knew. 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