Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1931, Page 2

LETTS MPONTED 70 LOCAL BENCH ;Iowa Former Representative Succeeds Justice Staf- ford, Resigned. . President Hoover today appointed Mormer Representatiys F. Dickinson Letts of Davenport, Towa, to be an as- ssociate justice of the Supreme Court -~of the District of Columbia, to succeed Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford, who formally resigned yesterday. .« Justice Stafford’s resignation was ded to become effective upon: the :m hgtmenv. of a successor, and it is ‘the understanding at the ‘White House ‘that Mr, Letts will lose no time quali- ~fying for this court. It is thought like- .1y that he will be sworn in tomorrow. The appointment of Mr. Letts to this .Jocal bench did not come as a surprise ‘%o Washington. The fact that he was ,the President’s choice to succeed Jus- “tice " Stafford was exclusively forecast 3n The Star several days ago. Three Terms in Congress. Mr. Letts served three terms in the “Flouse of Representatives as a Repre- ‘sentative from the second Iowa district ‘and was defeated for re-clection last Wovember. The President made the ‘appointment upon the recommendation ©of Attorney General Mitchell, who ,made a careful study of the qualifica- tions of Mr, Letts. i It was upon the suggestion of Sen- “ator Dickinson of ~members of the Towa delegation that ~Mr. Letts was considered for appoint- ment to the local court. Urged by Dickinson. Senator Dickinson first urged his ap- pointment &t the time President Hoo- [ ver appointed James M. Proctor to the; Supreme Court several months ago. It is understood that the President at the time gave assurance that Mr. Letts | would be given favorable consideration when another vacancy occurred on the Jocal bench. Before his-election to Congress in 1924 Mr. Letts served as & judge of the Dis- triet Court in Towa 13 years. He is a * native of Iowa, having been born in Wi County April 26, 1875. He graduated from Parsons College in 1897, and attended the law schools of Colum- bia University and the University of Towa, Jrldulunl from the latter in 1899. He started the practice of law the : same year, locating in Davenport, where he has continued to make his ! _ President Hoover today also npgomud Justice M. A. Soper of the District Court of Baltimore to a vacancy on the ZFourth Circuit Court of Appeals. BANKER AND WIFE BEATEN TO DEATH Bloody Ax Is Discovered—Hidden Bodies Are Found Near Home. By the Associated Press. WATER VALLEY, Miss,, May 5—W. B. Wagner, 64, & banker, and his wife were beaten to death in their home here last night and an attempt was made to hide their bodies in a nearby fleld. Neighbors_found Wagner's body in & makeshift grave in & garden plot and that of his wife in & nearby ditch early todsy. Search for them was started after 2 colored house boy reported for work this morning and found the dwelling in disorder. Authorities said the motive for the attack has not been definitely estab- lished. The condition of the house in- the merchant and his wife fought desperately to beat off their as- sallants. A theory that robbery might have prompted were found undisturbed. The Wagner automobile apparently was used in conveying Mrs. Wagner's body to the ditch. The car, bearing bloodstains, was found in the garage, ! Haith, 1014 Park road; S8elma Krupsaw, Jersey City and placed in a special and the keys were on a window ledge. Fingerprint experts were summoned from Memphis, and bloodhounds were ordered from the Parchman Prison Farm to aid in a search for the slaver. ‘Wagner apparently was killed first, ~officers said. Pools of blood and the “~“disordered condition of & bed room gave evidence of a desperate struggle both .there and in an adjoining dining room. “Wagner'’s head was crushed and that 6f Mrs, Wagner was almost severed. ‘The colored house boy, a youth raised by the Wagner family, was taken in| charge by officers for question.nig. A bloody ax, evidently the weapon used by the s..ser, was found in a ga- rage in the rear of the dwelling. Mr. Wagner, pioneer resident of ‘Water Valley, was president of the ‘Water Valley Bank and operated a de- wmnzm store_here. A son, Willlam agner, is in Nicaragua directing the -k‘:“m of a plantation his there. MAJ. ELBREY, RETIRED, | DIES AT AGE OF 91 Army Officer, Native of Virginia, Injured in Indian Service in 1891 Ma)j. Prederick W. Elbrey, surgeon of the United States Army, died today at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Herbert C. Stabler, 2841 Twenty-ninth street. Maj. Elbrey passed his ninety-first birthday on March 15. A native of Fauquier County, Va attended the University of Virginia, was Jater graduated from the med school of Columbia University, New York, in the class of 1867. After serv- ing in the hospitals of New York and Brooklyn, he entered the Army in 1868, receiving his commission from President Grant. He saw service in the Indian cam- paigns and while at old Fort Union, New Mexico, met with an accident which led to his retirement from serv- ice in 1891. For years he lived quietly at his home, Mirival, at Sandy Spring. Md., driving his own automobile to and from nearby cities and towns until after he had passed his eighty-eighth year. ‘Maj. Elbrey is survived by his daugh- ter, Elsle Elbrey Stabler; her sons, El. retired ™ s (brey and Willard, and two granddaugh- iters, Katharine and Eleanor Ewing, of Norfolk, daughters of the late Mrs. Guy C. Ew ing. Funeral services will be at the Priends Meeting House at Sandy Spring at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon. CAPONE AIDS TESTIFY CHICAGO, May 5 (#).—The appear- ance before the grand jury of two gangsters close to Alphonse Capone gave rise to today that the Gov- ernment may be seeking to indict the chiet for income tax evasion. tnesses, " were secret, Towa and other | father owned | he PRINCESS ILEANA BETROTHED THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C; TUESDAY, TO ARCHDUKE DE BOURBON Engagement Ceremony Held in Castle of Umrich in Pres- ence of Queen Marie. King Carol Telegraphs Sanc- tion—Wedding Ceremony Is Set for June. By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, May 5— Princess Ileana, 22-year-old daughter of Queen Mother Marie, is betrothed to Archduke Anton de Bourbon, nephew | Hungary. The engagement ceremony has been held in the Castle of -Umrich, near Frelburg, Germany. Those attending included Queen Marie, the Grand Duke Cyril and Princess Thyra of Russia and the Prince and Princess of Hohenzol- lern. Princess Ileana’s name has been linked with many a member of Euro- ean royalty, including the Prince of ales, King Boris of Bulgaria and Crown Prince Humbert of Italy. These Tumors were put to rest in January, 1930, when it was announced she wouid wetl Count Alexander of Hochberg, son of the Prince of Piess. Subsequently the engagement was canceled under un- explained circumstances. Accompanied by Queen Marie, she visited the United States in 1926 and was well received. She dined at the Point and narrowly escaped injury in an automobile accident near Chicago. She sailed for home with her heart intact. Archduke Anton is 30 years old and an aviator of note. When the Austro- Hungarian monarchy fell after the war he went to Spain with the royal family and became an engineer. Having bought a plane from his savings, he was awarded a prize by Austrian authorities last July as the first flyer to touch Vienna in a round-Europe flight. He 1is the son of the late Ar:hduke of the late Emperor Charles of Austria- | White House, attended a dance at West | Salvatore and Princéfs Blanche of Bourbon. His elder brother, the Arch- duke Leopold, was involved in a legal dispute not long ago in the United States concerning the dis 1 of & val- uable necklace which belonged to the Archduchess Maria Theresa. He spent some time in jail in New York, but was acquitted last November. ‘The marriage is scheduled for June. King Carol Approves. After a hastily summoned session of the cabinet, King Carol telegraphed his and the government’s sanction of the | engagement to the German castle in | which the couple are remaining for the | present. | " Princess Tleana was reported to have |met her fiance last year when she visited Spain and became greatly at- tached to him on short notice. He is believed to have a good position as consultant in the construction bureau of an airplane factory in Barcelona. It was believed in some quarters here that the couple will make their home in Rumania following the marriage and that the archduke may head a new airplane plant here. It is felt that the princess would not be disposed to de- part permanently from Rumania and reside in Spain. Trolley Jumns Track as Ken- ilworth Citizens Hold Pro- test Meeting. ‘While the Kenilworth Citizens’ Asso- ciation last night was in session pro- testing the condition of street car tracks on Kenilworth avenue, which caused the cars to jump the tracks, a Wash- ington Railway & Electric Co. trolley left the rails less than a half a mile from where the meeting was being held, seriously injuring a passenger. It is the third such mishap on the Kenilworth avenue line recently, citizens in the vieinity claim. William Cooper, 66 years old, of 303 L street southeast, the injured man, was removed to the Casualty Hospital. He was thrown to the floor of the street car when it left the tracks near Ben- ning road northeast. The crew of the car was Motorman Henry A. g of 767 Twentieth street northeast and Conductor Willlam R. King of Seat Pleasant, Md. The meeting in the Kenilworth School, had criticized the condition of the tracks, alleging that cars jumping the tracks constituted a menace to public safety. Cooper was the most seriously hurt of 10 persons reported injured in a se- ries of traffic accidents which occurred in the Capital and its environs late yesterday afternoon and last night. Among the other victims were Bessie street; Sergt. Henry Miskell, 40, of the the attack was discounted park police; Bernard Taylor, 5 years| had come to pay their respects to Bopted e ath In the dwelling| oM, of 412 P street southwest: Lee |mon they had. adimived for qualities {Knight, 29, 519 Thirteenth street; | Harry Gaskins, 28, 128 C street north- | east:” Mrs. Inbla D. Nickolson, 35, of 1128 'C street_northeast; Mrs. Anne V. |13, 4400 Pifteenth street, and Rodney Flaverkeys, 71, 1221 Irving street. M'GEE IS APPOINTED " 70 RESERVE BOARD Hoover Names Nebraska Farm | Leader to Fill Seat Left | by Cunningham. By the Associated Press. President Hoover today appointed W. W. MaGee of Bennington, Nebr., to be a member of the Pederal Reserve Board. MaGee will succeed the late Edward | H. Cummingbam. He will be known as |the farm member of the.board. { ‘The new Reserve Board member was educated in the public schools of Ne- braska and at the University of Chi- cago. He has been an active farmer for many years. | Bureau, | Assoctation, a director of the Nebraska Dairy Development Soclety, a member ) of the Coarse Grains Advisory Commit- tee to the Federal Farm Board and is a former director of the Federal Re- serve Bank at Kansas City. PASSENGER HURT | 'N GAR ACCIDENT Kenflworth _ Citizens' _group. | King, colored, 38 years old, of 308 L| He is president of the County Farm | the Nebraska Crop Growers’ | NOTABLES HONOR BAKER AT SERVIGE Simple Rites Held for Finan- cier at Country Home at Tuxedo Park. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, May 5.— Men whose names are symbols of achievement in the United States gathered at Tuxedo Park today and paid their final tribute to George F. Baker, charman of the Pirst National Bank and dean of Amer- | fean financiers. | ~The funeral service was simple to the point of austerity. There was a brief prayer and a short reading of |the Scriptures. There was no euiogy, no_honorary pallbearers. ‘The fyneral party of 500 included Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Charles M. Schwab, Elihu Root and Senator Dwight W. Morfow .of New Jersey, who arrived today on the liner Majestic. ‘There were presidents of rallroads of which Mr. Baker was a director, representatives of banking and invest- | ment houses in Wall Street, a delege- | tlon representing the employes of the Pirst Netional and representatives of his clubs. But those who attended the funeral | wers not all leaders in industry, finance | and diplomacy. In the months he | spent at Tuxedo Park each Summer Mr. Baker was known as a “good neigh- bor.” Sprinkled through the throng | were men of no special distinction who of friendship This morning the plain coffin was taken from Mr. Baker's city home in Madison avenue to the Erie Station in |train to take it to the country home |at_Tuxedo Park. The services at Tuxedo consisted of |2 hymn, a reading of the Bible, a | prayer and a recessional, conducted by | Rev. Minot Simons, rector of All Souls’ jUnlmrlan Church, which Mr, Baker | had attended for many years. | The immediate family was represent- | ed by George F. Baker, jr.; Mrs, Wil- liam Goadby Loew, a daughter, and sev- eral of Mr. Baker’s grandchildren. | Mr. Baker was 91. The Pirst National Bank, of which he was chairman, was | founded in the days when Lincoln was President. Before he died of pneumo- |nia Saturday he asked that the work of the institution, which he organized, continue without pausing to mark his death. As a consequence the bronze doors at No. 2 Wall street opened at 9 | o'clock and the work of the bank went forward as it has every business day for more than 60 years. In the financial district there was | continued speculation concerning the | size of Mr. Baker's estate. Estimates | ranged from $200,000000 to figures many times that amount, First Lady to Attend Luncheon. Mrs. Hoover will leave Washington | tonight for New York, where tomorrow | | she will attend a luncheon given by the | | Maternity Center of that city, spon- | | sored by Mrs. Kermit Roosevelf. Mrs. | Hoover will leave for Washington im- mediately afterward. By the Assoclated Press. | HOLLYWOOD, May 5—No longer can it be uttered, humorously or other- | wise, that movie stars are beautiful but dumb. Instead they're beautiful and well read—provided, of course, they read what they buy. A recent survey by booksellers and | publishers revealed the annual expen- | diture per person for books in the United States is 40 cents. Pive book stores within a radius of half a mile of the central business sec- tion in Hollywood in one year grcssed approximately $400,000, with 90 per cent of the sales made to movie stars. directors and others connected with the screen industry. One bookseller esti- mates the average monthly expenditure of his movie customers for books at $100 to $150. Poetry Is Popular. Purchases of the stars indicate that blographies and personal memoirs come first, sophisticated fiction second and rare and first editions third. Evelyn Brent, her bookseller said, is one of the most voracious readers in the colony. Clara Bow, Stuart Edwin, the dumb comedian, and e O'Brien, the big outdoor and ph 1 culture hero, buy try often. Joan Cra 'd reads works of Thomas Hardy snd fJoseph Conrad, and her MOVIE STARS MAY BE BEAUTIFUL, BUT NOT DUMB, BOOK SALES SHOW for Books—Dislike Cheap Literature. | Screen Favorites Spend Average of $100 to $150 a Month husband, Douglas Fairbanks, jr., spends money on art books. Josef von Sternberg, the director, and Lowell Sherman collect the better ero- tica. When Richard Barthlemess mar- ried, Willlam Powell's wedding present | was a shelf of exotic literature, and “;llfl{fltm!ls since has besn increas- g it Dislike Cheap Fiction. Ruth Chatterton’s favorite reading is plays, and Ann Harding and Helen Twelvetrees enjoy sophisticated fiction. Marie Prevost stresses Russian liters ture, and Lois Moran buys y in quantity. Conway Tearle rtku h- class fiction, and Wesley Ruggles pre- fers “books of importance,” especially hlgn&hy. iction about Hollywood naturally is read with lively curiosity, but as a rule booksellers cannot give away the usual cheap, popular fiction Of course, some stars don’t read all they buy. There’s the case of Ralph | Bellamy, Ruth Chatterton’s new leading man in “Laurels and the Lady,” and Frank OConroy, who share a rented house. The piace having large book- shelves, they ordered “fillers” from a second hand store. The bill .and they received everyt) to Shakespeare and Victor DEMAND CANNON RESIGN AS BISHOP Sparta, Ga; Church Also Calls for Another Inves- tigation of Charges. By the Assoclated Press. SPARTA, Ga., May 5—The Sparta Methodist Episcopal Church South has adopted resolutions asking for the res- ignation of Bishop James Cannon, jr., and calling upon Bishop W. N. Ains- worth to provide for another investiga- | tion of charges against Bishop Cannon. ‘The resolutions were offered by Dr. Rembert G. Smith, pastor of the church. Dr. Smith, in the 1928 presidential campaign, brought charges of political activity against Bishop Cannon and other bishops of the Methodist Church. Text of Resolutions. The resolutions, adopted at the quar- terly conference of the lot church Sunday, read in part as follows: “Whereas certain charges were made recently against Bishop James Cannon, jr., by Drs. F. J. Prettyman, C. J. Har- rell, I. P. Martin, J. T. Mastin, same having been placed in the hands of Bishop W. N. Ainsworth, at that time chairman of the College of Bishops; “And whereas, Bishop Ainsworth, act- ing under paragraph 261 of the disci- pline of 1930 did call together in Wash- | ington, D. C., 12 traveling elders to be a Committee of Investigation of these charges, which committee declared no trial necessary, *And whereas, the press reported that Bishop Cannon was permitted to ap-| pear and did appear before the Com- mittee of Investigation, “And whereas, .the law of the church as to the investigation of charges against a bishop as set forth in paragraph 261 of the discipline of 1930, does not permit the appearance of an accused bishop before a Committee of Investi- gation, Protest Partiality. “Be 1t resolved by this quarterly con- ference: “Pirst, that we protest against the partiality shown to Bishop Cannon in this matter and call upon Bishop Ains- worth to provide for another investi-| gation of these charges against Bishop Cannon, which sl be laid down in the discipline in paragraph 261. “Second, that we join with the quar- terly conference of the Newman, Ga.,| church and the group of Virginia lay- men in requesting Bishop Cannon to resign his office as bishop in our church, as we are convinced that his future tenure of this office will seriously lower the prestige and hinder the progress of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.” Z —— DEPUTIES WILL DEBATE AUSTRO-GERMAN PACT By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 5.—The Chamber of Deputies, Teconvening today after a month's recess, will debate the proposed Austro-German customs accord on ‘Thursday. The government proposed the debate for Priday, but the Radical Socialists wanted to get to work as early as pos- Mb’I“'h.e Chamber will remain in session probably until the middle of July. One of its duties will be to elect a new president next Wednesday. The House adopted a resoltuion of | felicitation for the Spanish Republic by a vote of 540 to 6 after the Communists in! an objection to the republic.” The session then adjourned until Thursday. DISTRICT DOCTORS 10 CPEN SESSION Many Visitors Expected for Two-Day Meeting, Start- ing Tomorrow. The annual meeting of the Medical | Boclety of the District of Columbia will | open tomorrew morning for & two-day session at the _Medltll Soclety Building, 1718 M street. There will be addresses by local and out-of-town speakers, election of offi- cers, luncheon, hospital conference and a special meeting, which will be open to the public. Many physicians from nearby States are expected to attend.: The first mee! ing will be called to order by Dr. Wi llam H. Hough, president, at 10:30 to- morrow morning. During the entire session there will be a selentific exhibit at the Medical Soclety Bullding of late discoveries in medicine and surgery as well as com- mercial exhibits, where many manufac- | turers and dealers will show the latest products of the surgical and drug sup- ply houses. ‘Among the speakers tomorrow will be Dr. W. Warren Sager, Dr. Walter Free- man, Dr. Alexander B. Moore, Dr. John B. Deaver, Dr. William Gerry’ Morgan, | Dr. Harry H. Kerr. Dr. Joseph J. Mun- | dell, Dr. J. Russell Verbrycke, jr., and | Dr.'w. Caihoun Stirling. | _The public meeting will be held Thursday evening at the Medical So- ciety Building at 8 o'clock, with Dr. Luther H. Relchelderfer, president of the District Board of Commissioners, presiding. $141,286 PROPERTY LEFT BY B. MOHUN Lawyer and Clubman Leaves Bulk of Estate to Wife, With Tribute to Her Fealty. | | | Barry Mohun, prominent lawyer and clubmen, who died April 16, left an estate valued at $141,286.31, in addition | to fees due the law firm of Mohun & lliott, according to the petitioner of ‘hi.s widow, Mrs. Nora M. Mohun, and C. F, R. Ogilby, his executors, for the probate of his will. They explain that he owned premises 2362 Massachusetts | avenue, assessed at $41,078, and had | personal property of $100,208.31. He left to his daughter, Mrs. Mary B. Coburn, $1,000 and a sapphire stickpin, |and to his son, Barry Mohun, jr., a watch and chain. The remaining estate is devised to y beloved wife, Nora M. {Mohun.” The testator wrote, “The use manner, but in a literal sense. Of my dear wife I truly say in the words of the immortal Gladstone, ‘It would not be possible to enfold in words the value of the gifts which the bounty of God ha? conferred upon me through my wite,' " | UTILITY QUIZ TO REOPEN | Federal Trade Commission Will, Take Up North American Co. |, The Federal Trade Commission will rzsume its inquiry into the financing of | public utility holding companies May 12 with an examination of the North American Co. and Northern Ohio, Milwaukee, Towa and Washington, D. C. Future Generals Initiated WEST POINTERS GET A FEW POINTERS AT ABERDEEN PROVING GROUNDS, MD. PPER: A group of first classmen of the West Point Military Academy witness the firing of a 16-inch Barbette gun during the course of instruction at_the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., yesterday. Lower: Five of the 300 members of the class looking through Barbette holes in-a l4-inch.armor plate punched out hells from a 16-inch ‘, iy A, P. Photos, of the world ‘beloved’ in referring to| | my wife is not made in a perfunctory | | the vacancy. MAY 5, 1931. Tree Planting at G. W. U. BOY SCOUTS OF TROOP 80 AID RITES. An American black walnut tree, grown from a walnut taken from a tree at Mount Vernon, was grounds yesterday afternoon as part of and observance of the George Washin planted on the George Washington University the institution's program of landscaping gton Bicentennial Celebration. In the main group, from left to right, are: Eugene Ould, Dr. C. H. Marvin, president of the university; Cecil Bitting, Louts university's board of trustees, planting Maurer, J. B. Larner, chairman of the tree, and Scoutmaster John Erly. LAWTO REGULATE ELECTIONS URGED Board Believes Measures Would Prove to Be Constitutional. COMMEND ACTION IN SCHOOL CRASHES |Manor Park Citizens Recom- mend More Rigid Inspection of Construction. ___(Continued From First Pa The Manor Park Citizens' Association h " |last night commended the District En- the hearing will be held later in the | gineer in charge of school ccnstruction week. Prof. Beard told the committee that| a troublesome question to handle was | that of deficits in political campaigns. | “If Congress would follow the New for prompt action in rearranging the inspection system at new buildings, where construction accidents have recently oc- | curred. Jersey law and forbid campaign man-| 1D the resolution. which was passed ‘f."s to encourage expenditures for which they have no money, a begin- ning might be made,” said the wit- ness. “Perhaps some better device for curing this disease might be discovered by_inquiry.” Prof. Beard declared that the Fed- eral law relating to elections is hope lessly deficient on the side of enforce ment. He said that new legislation should provide for a joint agency of the two Houses, equipped with an ade- quate staff to receive reports of con- tributions and expenditures and see | that the respective candidates and com- | mittees actually made such reports. “Doubtless some teeth could be given to the law,” continued the witness, “by | providing that whenever a candidate- elect is unseated the candidate stand- ing next to him at the poll is to have At present a candidate defeated by ‘corruption’ has no incen- tive to attack a guilty party unless the balloting was close and there is a chance for victory at the second election.” Prof. Beard expressed the opinion | The company operates in Oleveland | that too much emphasis cannot be laid the | Michigan peninsula, St. Louis, Keokuk, | on limitation in the amount of campaign expenditures. He said that he differed from one group of specialists, who are inclined to the view that the amount does not matter as long as adequate publicity is provided. He said that >very student of American politics knows that, of the expenditures made for elec- tions, enormous sums go to hiring so- called election workers by the thousand. Favors Low Limit, He advocated fixing & maximum ex- penditure in congressional campaigns, | but said that the election laws of a | State, when they fix a limit of expendi- | | ture below that fixed by the Federal | 1aw, should be allowed to remain in ef- fect. He suggested that 3 or 4 cents per voter in congressional elections would be a proper amount, although, he said, the lower the limit the better. He advocated, however, permission to can- didates to spend as much money as they required for traveling and hotel ex- nses. p‘?rof. Beard told the committee that, despite the wide publicity given to some campaign expenditures in this country, | “we spend less on the whole in con- gressional legislation than do candidates in Japan and England for -election to the legislative bodies in those countries.” Mr. Bard expressed the odinion that a new TFederal corrupt practices act should be passed without further delay. He favored a comprehensive law, not merely providing for limitation of ex- penses, but also providing for a thor- ough investigation of campaign ex- penses. Like Prof. Beard, Mr. Bard said that the new law should apply to pri- mary elections and he, too, expressed the view that the present Supreme Court would sustain such a law. Opposes Fixed Amounts. He sald that fixed amounts for cam- paign expenditures were open to serious objection, since they could not be applied fairly to the different States. He said that fixing a few cents per voter was as good a formula as could be devised. Mr. Bard told the committee that he believed paid political advertise- ments in newsrper! should be in- cluded in the iimitation on expendi- tures. He also advocated a strict al- location of contributions and expendi- tures to individual candidates running on & party ticket within a State. The witness recommended to the committee the creation of a permanent investigating body to pass upon the re- ports of campaign expenditures at con- lonal elections, “No Senator or Representative” he eaid, “should be burdened with the job of examining all these reports. Such work should be done by experts.” MRS. COOLIDGE TO GET SOCIAL SERVICE MEDAL Recognition b~ National Institute at Dinner Thursday to In- clude Three Others. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, May 5—Mrs. Calvin Coolidge is one of four Americans who will receive the gold medal of the Na- tional Institute of Social Sciences 4t the organization’s annual dinner on Thursday. The hon6r is being awarded Mrs. Coolidge for her ‘“distinguished social services in behalf of the deaf at the Clark School, Northampton, Mass., and for her fine personal influence exerted as First Lady of the Land.” Willlam C. Redfield, president of the institute and former Secretary of Commerce, will make the presentation. Others who will receive the medal are Frank B. Kellogg, former Secretary of State; Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the Children's Bureau, United States De- partment of Labor, and Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot, professor of social ethics of Harvard Univetsity, s % | gather data for a proposed | at a regular meeting of the grcup they | recommended a more rigid inspection on construction of school buildings, and added that a higher salary scale for | such inspectors would probably result in securing better men. They urged that the requirements for such in- spectors be made higher. and that con- | tractors and subcontractors be made | strictly responsible in such cases as the ‘ltsl:ed',wo. when ‘“cave-ins” have re- sulted. Urge New High School. Another resolution passed by the Manor Park Eoup last night urged the school officials to press upon Congress the need for a new northern High School. A site was purchased last year, and | an appropriation is scught “in the hope of getting the school by 1933,” officers of the group said. The school is to be a full senior high school, it was pointed out, and present growth of the city toward the north warrants its construc- tion, they said. Maj. Gotwals Speaks. Maj. John C. Gotwals, engineer com- missioner, spoke informally at the meeting, discussing the work of the Commissioners. He pointed out the difficulties cf satisfying every ome in | the District with the budget and asked that the citizens of the various citizens’ | ossociaions co-operate, even if their “pet” projects had been omitted. {MORROW IS SILENT | ON RETURN HOME |New Jersey Senator Smiles, but | Refuses to Discuss European | Affairs or Politics. | | | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, May 5—Smiling but tight-lipped on all questions of diplo- macy, politics and economics, Senator Dwight W. Morrow of New Jersey a rived today on the liner Majestic from a two-month vacation in Europe.. The Senator, who was accompanied by Mrs. Morrow and Miss Amy Aldrich, friend of the Morrow family, looked in much better health than when he sailed. He motored direct to his home in Englewcod, N. J., but planned later in the day to attend the funeral of George F. Baker, financier. During his European trip Mr, Mor- row visited London and after Secretary Stimson had talked with him by tele- phone it was announced in Washing- ton that it appeared unnecessary for the United States to participate in the work of drafting the Franco-Italian naval accord. On all these matters, as well as on the political situation in New Jersey, Senator Morrow was silent today., He only laughed when asked about pub- lished reports of & vice presidential boom for him. His sole comment was upon the death of Mr. Baker, for whom he said he had “tremendous respect.” Mr. Morrow spent most of his vaca- tion in Sicily, but found time to visit leading figures in Europe. AIRPLANE IS READY Ahrenberg Will Drop Food for Marooned Scientist if Unable to Land. the Associated Press. ANGMAGSALIK, Greenland, May 5. | —Given favorable weather, Capt. Albin Ahrenberg hoped to take off today to rescue Augustine Courtauld, British scientist, who is marooned on Green- land’s icy plateau. Having equipped with skis the plane with which he flew the north Atlantic, the Swedish fiyer intends to land if pos- sible near the isolated dugout in which the Britisher spent the Winter. If that is unfeasible, he will drop foodstuffs and return with directions for a land party. En route to the tem ry camp, 150 miles inland, he will keep watch for three dog teams, parties which set out some time ago on the .same mission. One is led by H. G. Watkins, 23-yea: old, who sailed from London with a party of 15 scientists a r ago to ir route be- and Cinada. | By | tween England Cheap watches sent from Switzerland wumcounfi-{m;ymm-ww value of §70341%," : Sk e Premier Mussolini_and several other | FOR ARCTIC RESCUE | u: AIRLINES GROUND - 3 FOKKER SHIPS Companies Comply With Or- der as Officials Plzn Inspection. While Anthony H. G. Fokker, noted airplane designer, and his engineering experts were closeted with officials of the aeronautics branch of the Depart- ment of Commerce here today working out plans for thorough inspection of 35 Fokker tri-motored transport planes of the 1929 series, ordered out of passenger service yesterday by Clarence M. Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, word was received here from the four big operating companies owning the 35 pianes that they all are .ur;mn led in yorious parts of the coun- ‘The conferences between the Fokker experts and officials of the department today were described as being entirely amicable. Though Mr. Fokker refused to make any public statement, he bas pledged his wholehearted support to the department in its efforts to find whether maintenance methods employed by o?enwrs of the two-year-old transport planes are adequate to insure the safety of the wooden wing construction of these planes. 35 Planes To Be Inspected. ‘The 35 planes on the ground today will not be permitted to carry pas- sengers until they are thoroughly in- spected and plans for future mainte- nance worked out. The conference in progress today has to do with methods of inspection and maintenance of the wings of the 1929 Fokkers, which are unique among large American transports being of all-wood construction, in- cluding plywood covering. The inspec- tion and maintenance methods will be applied to all later models of the Fok- kers, which are not involved in the ban. The suspension order, it was made clear, is temporary and the fihna will go back into service as rapldly as they can be inspected and the individual planes approved. ‘Twelve of the planes, operated by American Airways, operating subsidiary of the Aviation Corporation, are in hangars today, according to word re- ceived by officials of the Department of Commerce. Officials of Transcontinental-Western Air Express said today that the use of its planes on the Los Angeles-Kansas City line had been discontinued Satur- day, according to Associate Press dis- patches from Los Angeles. Other equip- ment is being used in place of the grounded planes. C. E. Johnson of Boeing Air Trans- port and Pacific Air Transport said the order grounding the Fokkers had been anticipated and that three of the planes cquired through a merger are not be- ing used. Schedules Maintained. J. T. 'n'flg:e, president and general manager of Pan-American Airways, an- nounced last night from New York that the Government order had been obeyed and that the system’'s 22,000-mile in- ternational mai!, passenger and express Toutes to Cubs, Mexico, West Indles, Central and South America, on two sections of which Fokker planes were used, are being maintained on schedule with other equipment. “Under our standard maintenance system,” Mr. Trippe told the Associated Press, “the 10 Fokkers which comprise about 10 per cent of the Pan-American fleet, have proved satisfactory in op- eration. The company is offering the Department of Commerce every co-op- eration in connection with the present investigation of this type airplane.” The Department of Commerce had not received today a report from Army engineers at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, on their findings in tests of wings of Fokker planes, made at the request of the Department of Commerce Aeronau- tics Branch, it was stated, Has Colorful Career. Mr. Fokker, struggling under the blow of the Department of Commerce order, to maintain his reputation as one of the foremost airplane d ers and builders, has had one of e world's most colorful aviation careers, He is one of the world’s real air ploneers and is known as a designer of great originality and daring, an inventor of extraordinary technical skill and vision and an ardent believer in future of aviation. 2 Fokker was born in 1890 at Kediri, = town on the Island of Java, & colony of the Netherlands, in the Malay Archi- pelago, the son of a wealthy owner of coffee plantations. The family returncd to Holland when the boy was 6 years old. Fckker's intense interest in me- chanics put a stop t> his formal educa- tion and he plunged into aviation wiih enthusiasm when the Wrights first called aviation to the attention of the world. His first airplane was built in 19i1 almost entirely with his own hands and he taught himself to fly. With this plane he created a great sensation and won an_international military competi- tion at St. Petersburg in 1912. He immediately turned to the manu- facture of airplanes on a commercial basis and has been engaged in this field without, interruption ever since, always at the head of his own business. Fame Spread Dujing War. He sought without success to interest the Dutch and British goyernments in his work and finally entered into a three-year contract with the German government for the instruction of mil- itary pupils. This contract was in ef- fect when the World War began and Fokker turned to the manufacture of fighting planes with such extraordinary success that his fame spread to every part of the world. In addition to his amazing series of fighting planes he produced the first synchronizing fi.r' which permitted the firing of a machine-gun through the arc of the propeller. When the armistice threatened to cripple his work he succeeded in tsans- ferring his material and data to his native country. Holland, and there es- tablished a large plant at Amsterdam in which, up to 1926, he produced more than 10,000 Fokker airplanes of various types. His belief that much of the future of aircraft development lay in the United States led him to establish a American plant at Hasbrouck Heights, N. J. One of the forerunners of his tri- motored transport type, developed at this plant, was the Army T-2, built at Amsterdam, in which Lieuts. Kelly and Mcready of the Army Air Corps made the first non-stop coast-to-coast flight in 1923. The first tri-motor built m this country, after thousands of miles of travel, became the property of the Arctic ition headed by Rear Ad- miral Richard E. Byrd and made the first flight across the North Pole. Another tri-motored Fokker was used by Maitland and Hegenberger for the first flight from the United States to . Another was used by Admiral Byrd for his transatlantic £:ght. ‘The Army, Navy and Marine Corps all use Fokker planes, mainly for trans- idespread interest, largely because of an attack on Admiral Byrd in connection with the transatlantic flight. SIX MINERS RESCUED MONS, Belgium, May 5 (#).—Buried five days as the result of a landslide in the Hornu Mine, six min:rs were res- cued today and brought to the surface after being given first aid. They were located Saturday but res- cue parties w to {o{cemn passage ugh an jacent pit order to