Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1931, Page 2

AUEATORSOITLN ORY LA RESEARC Graduate Students’ Investi- gation of Prohibition for Degrees Sought. By the Associated Press. A group of distinguished educators gathered today to determine how col- lege graduate students may help to solve the question of what is really happening in the United States as a re- sult of prohibition. ‘The nine university professors who participated comprised. with one other memiber, the “Prohibition Advisory Re- search Council.” Its formation was an- naunced by Prohibition Director Wood- cock two weeks ago. Asthe members met in executive ses- sion at the Prohibition Bureau the gen- eral task before them wee %9 “formulate plans for research into :mrauon of the eighteenth amendms in the flelds ©of sociology and political economy.” Compile Thesis Subjects. Specifically, however, they planned to compile s list of subjects relating to prohibition, into which graduate stu- dents could conduct research in seek- masters’ and doctors’ degrees. ohibition officials cloes to the meet- ing emphasized that council members would conduct no research themselves, that their work had no political sigmifi- cance nor any connection with that of the Wickersham Commission. <What was hoped for, it was said, was that with a standardized list of sub- Jects before them students in different parts of the country would select such themes as “Has Prohibition Affected duvenile Drinking?” and thus give a cpmposite view of such a condition. ~“Careful investigation in a hundred Jocalities,” one official said, “will give & picture more nearly accurate than that of any observer in any one lo- cality.” Plans for the session were indefinite. No specific time was set for its con- vening, nor for the meeting with At- torney General Mitchell. Ten on Council. Those comprising_the council are Pru}sl Richard C. Cabot of Harvard, Samuel McC. Lindsay of Columbia, William 8. Carpenter of Princeton, lerick D. McKinsey of the Univer- of Michigan, Charles E. Gehlke of estern Reserve University, Walter R. Miles of Stanford, Samuel C. May of the University of California, Dr. Susan Myra Kingsbury, of the Graduate %)ool. Bryn Mavwr; Dr. Charles W. kin, dean of the Graduate School, Uniyersity of Louisiana, and Dr. Emory R. Johnson., dean of Wharton School of Commerce and Financ of Pennsylvania. Ty “EMIR” BORN IN U. S. CLAIMS CITIZENSHIP Civil Liberties Union Aids Al Raschild in Deportation —— KING OF SIAM TAKES BANDAGE FROM EYE Dons Dark Glasses and Strolls at New York Mansion First Time Since Operation. By the Associated Press. HASE. N_ Y., May 26-—Kin Prajadhipok of Siim, yesterday pu% away the bandage shielding his left eye, Put on smoked glasses and went for a stroll through the mansion he occupies, It was the first time since the removai of a cataract from the eye two weeks 2go that the King had walk:d about without the protection of a bandage. The heavy glass must be worn for several weeks. The King is not ex- peeted to leave the grounds of the Reid estate, site of Ophir Hall, for a week or | 10 days. | CATCHES RARE DISEASE IN MEDICAL RESEARCH Nebraska U. Professor Seriously Il Again After “Recovering” From Attack 1927. Br the Associated Press OMAHA, May 26.—Victim of a rare disease contracted while doing rescarch work. Prof. Paul M. Bancroft, 29, of the University of Nebraska Coilege of M: cine, is seriously ill in a hospital here The disease, known in medical circles 85 grannuloma coccihicides, is caused by & fungus known as coccidioides im- mitus, and is generally fatal, physicians attending Prof. Bancroft said Prof. Bancroft first came in contact with the dangerous fungus in Septem- ber, 1926, while doing research work at the University of Pennsylvania labora- in Philadeiphia. In April, 1927, he suffered an attack of the disease After undergoing treatment Bancro spparently recovered. He wes stricken by the second attack two weeks ago GREENLAND DISPUTED Norway Urged to Resist Danish Dominion in Eastern Part. H OBLO, Norway, May 26 (#).—The Norwegian Arctic Council. official ad- - body in questions regarding the e vegions, has urged the govern- ment to extend Norwegian rovereignty over Eastern Greenland, North of Scoresby Sound which was colonized by Norweglan hunters. Norway has refused to recognize Danish sovereignty over the whole of | Greenland. The Arctic Council is urg- ing this step as a result of reports in ' the Dgnish press that a Danish expe- dition to Eastern Greenland will ex- ercise police authority there | BURGLARS GET LIQUOR Forty pints of medicinal whisky and & small quantity of narcotics were stolen by burglars last night from the | % store of Otis H. Wood at 3303 y-fifth street, along with other articles valued at $237. Dr. ‘Wood discovered ghe robbery ‘Wwhen he opened the establishment early this morning and found the front door and the store looted. An eight- set, 10 cartons of cigareis boxes of cigars were stolen to the and drugs. in | ] | 1 { | early di | tators | valley of the Connecticut N search into operation of the eighteenth amendment. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGT( INE university professors gathered here today to formulate with Prombition Director Wcodcock plans for re- Comprising the Prohibition Advisory Research Council, they are: Right to left, seated—Prof. Walter R. Miles of Stanford University, Prof. Susan M. Kingsbury, direc- tor of the graduate department of social economy, Bryn Mawr; Chairman Roderick D. McKinsey of the Univer- sity of Michgan socioiogy department, and Dean Emory R. Johnson of the Wharton School of Commerce and Finance, University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Cha: u of th nd Prof rles E. Gehlke of Western Reserve University f. Samuel McCune Lindsay of Columbia. Standing—Dean Charles W. Pipkin of Louisiana State University Graduate School, Prof. William 8. Carpenter of Princeton, Prof. Samuel C. May iversity of California, BAY MOCK BATIL 1S AWAITED TODAY Warships of “Enemy” Ready to Launch Attack Aimed at Route to Capital. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va, May 26.—An ‘“ene- my"” fleet of warships, sweeping up from the South, stood ready today to launch an attack against land and air forces defending the approach to Chesapeake Bay. ‘The “black” fleet of three cruisers and five destroyers will “open fire” on Fort Story as its first objective in an attempt to fight past coast defenses to ‘Washington. The land units of the “blue” army, opposing forces in the four-day maneuvers planned to test the defense of the Norfolk-Washington- Baltimore area in the annual joint minor exercises of the Army and Navy, will be assisted by airplanes and small craft of the naval district. Huge guns will roar, largely in theory, as the warships, under the command of Rear Admiral Orgin G. Murfin on his flagship, the cruiser Omaha, move in to attempt the disabling of Fort Story and then Fort Monroe. The defending forces will lJaunch a counter attack under the direction of Brig. Gen. Stanley D. Embick, commanding the 3d Coast Artillery, and whose head- quarters is at Fort Monroe. Hostilities will subside temporarily after the initial attack afternoon and the “black fleet” early tomorrow morning will reconnoiter the territory between Cape Henry and Cape Charles. The attack against Fort Montroe will be made tomorrow afternoon. . ‘The enemy fleet is making its attack after the Panama Canal presumably has been destroyed, and while the ‘“blue” fieet is racing around the Horn to come to the defense of the east coast. The attacking fleet includes the light cruis- ers Cincinnati and Milwaukee and de- stroyer divisions 3 and 7. Sl G gt AIR ARMADA FLIES OVER BUNKER HILL IN MODERN BATTLE _(Continued Prom First Page.) in nearby Boston. Had yesterday's battle been against a real foe it would have covered thousands of square miles and there would have been safety for no one in goll the countryside. Com- batants and non-combatants alike would have been subjected to the methods of scientific slaughter in wholesale lots Yesterday's demonstration c the aertal might of the Army Air Corps must have come as a fascinating study in contrasts to those who witnessed it from amid the scenes cf the gloriou of the Nation in and ab Boston. Witneesed from the cockpit o one of the fighting planes. with rod- den skiet and the intermingled pan- orzma of land and water in wh Bos- ton is framed. it was a majestic spec- tacie as the wheeling squadrons swung into line to roar past in revicw pbove the dark masses of thoueands of spee- crowded at points of vantage t below. The squadrons took off from the beau- tiful Springfield mirport, where there were rtationed at one time more *han 400 planes, the largest number ever gathered on one fiying field. A scat- tered 250 more planes at other alrports joined in soon afterword. Where Wash- ington’s Army could have been juggled into marching order within con- squadrons had to have plenty of ro They took up all the room there v between Springfeld, Mass. and Hart- ford, Conn. to g@ into any kind of order at all Once in formation by groups and wings, above squadrons the flooded the aerial column_headed Northeast toward Bos- ton. This particular bit is written in the careening cockpit of a two-seater flown by Capt. John E. Upston, com- mander of the 91st Observation Squad- ron from far away Crissy Fleld, Calif “'Jack" Upston was stationed in the National Capital last yoar. The rest of the squadron s stringing off behind and 2bove in V-shabed e'ements of three planes each. The blue sides of each plane bear the insignia of the squadron a mounted knight in armor. his lance couched, in pursuit of a flecing red devil Connecticut's lake-studded and for est-clad hills merge into tho Massachusetts at a romantic spot— Lake Chargoggagoggmanchaugaggogg- chaubunagungamaug, which took its Gargantuan name from an old Indian treaty. The name of the lake, literally transiated, means “You fish on your tide, I fish on my side. No one fishes in the middle.” Scenes enshrined in American his- tory slip by and in an incredibly few minutes Boston is at hand, the review r- of | completed and the force, spread out in comfortable cross-country formations, heads back to Springfleld and a very late luncheon. FLIGHT TO GOTHAM TODAY. SPRINGFIELD, 8, May 26 (). The Army’s a'r bi: weary after three successive reviews presented under ad- verse weather eond.tions, were ready to- day to carry on in formal flight over PHILOSOPHY EMBELLISHES CITIZENSHIP CASE OPINIONS| stices of Supreme Court! Weigh Free Conscience ‘ "and War Antipathy. Professor and War Nurse Draw Comment on Duty, Religion and Peace. Philosophy such as seldcm embellishes decisions of the Supreme Court added | interest to the opposing opinions at- | tending rejection by a majority of the court yesterday of citizenship .applica- tions of two Canadians, Prof. Douglas Clyde MacIntosh of Yale University and Marie A. Bland, a nurse during the Worla War, now of New York. Discussing world conflicts, JuStice Sutherland, who rendered the majority | opinion, said “There are few finer or more exalted sentiments than that which finds ex- pression in opposition to war,” he said. “Peace is a sweet and holy thing and war is a hateful and abominable thing | to be avoided by any sacrifice or con- cession that a free people can make. | | “But thus far mankind has been un- able to devise any method of indefinitely prolonging the one or entirely abolish- | ing the osher; and,- unfortunately, there 15 nothing which seems to afford positive ground for thinking that the near future will witness she beginning of the reign of perpetual peacé for which all good men and women every- waere never cease to pray.” | Other, excerpts from Justice Suther- land’s opinion and some quotations from the dissenting opinion of Chief Justice Hughes follow: “We are a Christian people, but also we are a Nation with the duty to sur- vive—a Nation whose Constitution con- templates war as well as peace—and sub- | mission and obedience to tne law of the land, as well thcse.made for war as those made for peace, are not incon- sistent with the will of God.” “It is not within the province of the court to make bargains with those who seek naturalization. They must accept | the grant and take the oath in accord- |ance with the terms fixed by the law | or forego the privilege of citizenship.” Ju l | “The privilege of the native-born con- scientious objector to avold bearing arms comes not from the Constitution, but from the act of Congress. No other conclusion is compatible with the well-nigh limitless extent of the war powers, which include, by necessary implication, the power in the last ex- tremity to compel the armed service of | theaction of their country in entering| #ny citizen in the land, without regard to his objections or his views in respect of the justice or morality of the par- ticular war or war in general.” “If the attitude of this claimant be held immaterial to the question of his fitness admission 1o citizenship, Albany, N. West Point and New York. The flotilla of more than 600 fight- ing craft was tuned up early this morn- | ing for s movement across Western Massachusetts and down the Hudson | River Valley to New Yoirk. The planes were scheduled to swarm from airports in Hartford, Conn. and Springfield around 10 a.m. (Eastern standard time) and proceed to a rendezvous point over Troy, N. Y. The armada was to pass in review over Albany and then swing down the Hudson Valley, passing over the Military Academy at West Point an hour after leaving Albany and over New York City about 12:30 p.m., then out to the bay before breaking forma- tion and alighting at five airflelds in New York i Tomorrow the division will cruise | over New Jersey with a review and demonstrution above Atlantic City: | Thursday will be a ‘day of rest, and Friday the division will take the wing the NAtion's Capital, where the createst air maneuvers of United States Army history will be brought to a close. MAY GROUND CIVILIAN. X. State Irked by Test Pllot's Flight on Day of Air Maneuvers. BOSTON, May 26.—Robert 5. O'Brien, State superintendent of aviation, last night sald that Vance Breese, test pilot for the Detrolt Aircraft Corporation of Detrcit, would be grounded for six months for going aloft yesterday dur- g the Army air maneuvers. He said Breese failed to get official clearance papers from any Army, State or eity offic:al commenders with Na- feasted PROF. DOUGLAS C. MacINTOSH. ‘ —A. P. Photo. where shall the line be drawn? Upon what ground of distinction may we here- after reject another applicant who shall express his willingness to reject any particular principle of the Constitu- on?" Chief Justice Hughes said: “Prof. MacIntosh, when pressed by the inquiries put to him, stated what is axiomatic in religious doctrine. An putting aside dogmas with their par ticular conceptions of Deity, freedom of conscience itself implies respect for an innate conviction of paramount duty.” “There is abundant room for enforc- ing the requisite authority of the law and for maintaining a conception for the supremacy of war as essential to orderly government, without demanding that either citizens or applicants for citizenship shall assume by oath an obligation to regard alleglance to God as subordinate to allegiance to civil power.” “There are other and most important methods of defense, even in time of war, apart from the personal bearing of arms.” “Among the specific requirements as to beliefs we find none to the effect | that one shall not be naturalized if by | reason of his religious convictions he |is opposed to war or is unwilling to | nothing new in such an attitude. Among | romise to bear arms. “Nor is there any ground, in my opinion, for the exclusion of Prof. Mac- Intosh because his conscientious scruples have particular reference to wars believed to be unjust. There is the most eminent statesmen here and abroad have been those who condemned into wars thought to be unjustified.” “The battle for religious liberty has been fought and won with respect to religious bellefs and practices which are not in conflict with good order, upon the very ground of supremacy of con- science wathin its proper field.” COMMITTEE TO ARRANGE FOR OUTING IS NAMED P.-T. A. and Citizens’' Federation Plan Excursion to Marshall Hall June 18. Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter and Thomas J. Lleweilyn, as representatives of the Congress of Parents and Teachers and the Pederation of Citizens’ Associations, respectively, jointly head a committee on arrangements for a Potomac River outing of the two organizations on June 18. The two were appointed at a meet- ing of the Joint Committee of the two groups last night at Thomson School, Twelfth and L stree! The outing, which will be in the form of an excursion to Marshall Hall, will have as guests of honor Federal, Dis- trict and school officials. Athletic events are being arranged for children and adulis and prizes will be given. Chair- men of the various subcommittees ar Invitation and reception, George E. Sul- livan: entertainment and program, Mrs. E. C. Rittue; booster and _publicity, Thomas E. Lodge: ticket, H. C. Phillip: Members of the General Joint Commif tee make up the membership of the sub- committee: PRIZES TO BE AWARDED Best Entertainers Will Receive Re- ward Tomorrow Night. Prizes for the best entertainment fea- tures offered by the Southeast Center Al tional, State and city officials last night | Entertaining Committee during the last at the aviation dinner of the Crosscup- year are to be awarded tomorrow night Pishon Post of the American Legion, | by the Southeast Community Center at held in connection with the Army air |the Buchanan Auditorium. Awards also maneuvers of Connecticut and Col. Payne, Assistant Secyetary of War, both | epoke. ARMY FLYERS MISS QUARRY. ROCKLAND, M May 26 (P)— Lieut. A. Goodrich, Army flyer, and | :hls mechanic came close to injury cr death here late yesterday, 25 their fail- ing motor forced them to 12nd on o field | near an abandcned quarry. ‘e plane landed within a few fect of the Kocky | Gep. The flyers, forced o their course by the White Mou» 1 east 2nd came down w.ihin a mile of th» Rockland Airport. unawa; that a landing fleld was near., TheWgane was | undamageds 3, turn Sepator Hiram Bingham | will be made for outstanding community Frederick H. achievements. Mrs. John J. Couryn is chairman of the program and Allan Davis will act as_toasimaster. W. E. Sanford, J. Louis Bixler and Col. W. F. Murphy acter as judges dur- ing the series of entertainments given by the center. They have not yet made blic the names of the prize winners. ‘The auditorium 1s on Thirteenth !'rl;.!'. between D and E streets south- east. School Employes’ Pay Cut. MARION, Ohio, May 26 (P).—A 10 per cent pay reduction for all city chool cmployes and discontinuance of two school buildings effective next year was announced by the Board of Education today as an economy move. N, D TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1931, IQUIZ TO GET DATA | ON D. C. UTILITIES North American Probe Re- port to Include Car Line and Electric Rate Decree. An exhaustive report on the operting eonditions of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. and its profitable sub- sidary, the Potomac Electric Power Co., will be included in the record of the Federal Trade Commission’s investiga- tion of the North American Co. The operating study is to be made by Judson C. Dickerman, one of the com- mission’s engincer-examiners, who al- ready has figured prominently in the current hearings before the commission, at which the North American’s exten- sive public utility holdings are being unfolded in minute detail. It was Mr. Dickerman who disclosed that the North American owns 55.1 per cent of the voting stock of the Wash- mgton Railway & Electric Co. and 2% per cent of the stock outstanding of : the Capital Traction Co. Study to Begin Soon. Mr. Dickerman said today he would begin his study at the earliest oppor- tunity, although he does not expect to complete it until Fall. It will be avail- able, however, he declarsd, in time for incorporation in the commission’s final Teport to Congress on the result of its inquiry into the holdings of the North American Co The operating report, Mr. Dicker- man declared. will show whether the | Washington utilities are efficiently op- erated and managed and the type of service provided in comparison with similar privately owned companies in {other cities. Special attenticn, he in- dicated, will be given the consent de- cree between the Public Utilities Com- mission and the Potomac Electric Power Co. by which electric rates in ‘Washington are fixed. In connection with ‘the study of the transportation companies, Mr. Dicker- man will review, rather briefly, the ne- gotiations for a merger, initiated by the | North American, and point out the | operating economies that would accrue | from a unified operation. Failure of | Congress to ratify the unification agree- ment entered into by the transit com- panies killed the first serious attempt to consolidate these utilities, but there are indications that merger negotiations :may be renewed in the near future. Backs Light Consent Decree, Mr. Dickerman said he would devote a considerable portion of his report to the electric light consent decree, which the utilities commission is now attempt- ing to revise in a further effort to lower rates. Personally, he believes nothing should be done to destroy this contract, because it has worked-to the distinct 'advantage of both consumer and company. The success of the consent decree, ! which has enabled the Potomac Electric | Powet Co. annually to reduce rates and at the same time earn a return running | as high as 10 and 12 per cent, he said, hould be cited as an example to other { power companies that are seeking to | raise rates. As it has worked out in | Washington, he declared, the consent | | decree has put a premium on efficiency, | giving the company an incentive for economical and efficient operation. Mr. Dickerman said that for a num- | ber of years he has observed the rates in Washington go down under the oper- ation of the consent decree, and con- sidered this situation nothing short of | “remarkable” in view of the added bur- den of operating costs borne by the | Potomac Electric Power Co. because of ! underground construction. Aside from New York, he declared, he did not know of any city in the country having as much underground electric power | line construction as Washington, which is an important factor in operating | | costs. AMERICAN PAVILION OPENED IN PARIS Reproduction of Mount Vernon Dedicated by Edge, Pershing and Others. 1 | | By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 26.—The American pa- vilion in France'’s International Co-| lonial and Overseas Exposition, & re-| | production of Mount Vernon, was for-| mally opened today by Ambassador | Walter E. Edge and C. Bascom Slemp, | the American high commissioner. The United States, in contributing to the exposition this re-creation of George Washington's historic home, “has sought a modest but highly sym- bolic manner to express its profound admiration for France,” Ambassador Edge said in his address. Gen. John J. Pershing, Andre Tar- dieu, minnister of agriculture, and Paul Reynaud, minister of colonies, were | other speakers on the inaugural pro- gram, which was broadcast. “Aithough not a colonial power in the accepted sense of the word, my country, because of its colonial origin, presents to mankind a concrete example of the full flowering of intelligence and successful overseas development,” the American Ambassador said. In no quarter of the globe, he continued, did American policy seek to displace exist- ing alleglances and loyalties. The Benjamin Franklin Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, of which Ambassador Edge, who sgrved in the Spanish-American War, is ah honor- ary member, was represented at the ceremony by a color guard. To con- clude the program, a band played “The Star Spangled Banner” and the “Mar- seillaise” and gave a concert of other patriotic airs. Miss Anne | Madison Washington, great-great-g| niece of the first President, who 8 serving as the pa- vilion's hostess, received Marshal Lyautey, commissioner general of the exposition, and Ministers Tardieu and Reynaud. She was assisted by Mrs. Claude Swanson, wife of the Virginia Senator. Foreign Minister Briand, busy with diplomatic consultations, was unable to attend, but was represented by M. De Vitrolles, sub-director for American af- faris in_the foreign office. Miss Mary Lewis, the opera star, led in the singing of the American national anthem. WAR MOTHERS PLANNING MEMORIAL DAY RITES Gold Star Parties Leave for Five Cemeteries Where Sons Lie. By the Associated Press, PARIS, May 26.—American Gold Star Mothers will participate in Me- morial day ceremonies at five ceme- terles in ~ Prance. Sections of the mothers' partles left today for the places where their sons are buried, and some will remain until after May 30. Mrs. Gertrude Olsen of Hayti, S. Dak.. {1s still in the American Hospital con- {,mum'z |to ung;ovp. lt;: a second blo’od ransfusion. She i3 under treatment for an intestinal sllm%nt. u i ! goldenrod. School Cadets ‘These Western girls “captured” Lieut. Col. Joseph H. Mattare, 4th Regiment commander of the Western High Schcol Cadet Corps, at Griffith Stadjum today during the annual competftive crill They are making him sign the Ad- jutant, the cadet year book. Who | wouldn’'t? Left to right: Carol Pal- | mer, Helen Wilson, Lieut. Col. Mattare and’ Charlotte Thoenen. | Below is Sergt. Edmund von Brunt, proud winner of the gold medal pre- | sented at the drill. —Star Statf Phctos. HAY-ADAMS HOUSE TOHAVE REGENERS Adkins to Name H. P. Blair,| J. 1. Peyser and W. E. i (From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) Receivers will be appointed for the Hay-Adams House, fashionable Six- teenth street hotel, under a ruling to- day by Justice Jesse C. Adkins of Dis- | trict Supreme Court. Justice Adkins said he would appoint Henry P. Blair, Julius I. Peyser and Willlam E. Furey as receivers after a formal bill had been drafted by the at- torneys involved. He announced his de- | cision after hearing arguments in an | acticn brought by Hugh H. O'Bear and | Edmund D. Campbell, trusteces under a $110,000 chattel deed of trust on the hotel's furniture. Daniel Thew Wright, attorney for the plaintiffs, contended no interest had been paid for a year on the furniture and demanded that it be sold. Walter | B. Guy, attorney for Mae E. Butscher and John C. Maynard, noteholders of | the hotel corporation, suggesied ap- pointment of receivers. The hotel was financed by Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey, defunct mortgage banking house. | RAICHLE APPEARS | IN PERJURY INQUIRY Former Pitt;i(l;u;ls;i‘Comeu Here for Grand Jury Investiga- tion of Case. (Prom the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) Waiving his constitu‘ional immunity, | Prank S. Raichle, New York lawyer, testified this afternoon before the grand jury investigating the F. H. Smith Co. perjury case. Raichle, who is assoclated with Wil- liam J. Donovan, former Assistant At- torney General, played a lendin} part | in the defense of G. Bryan Pit's, former | chairman of the Smith Co. board of directors, and two other officers cn conspiracy embezzlement charges. All three were convicted. | The Government now is seeking in- | dictments against Pitts and “certain of | his associates” for the alleged manu- factured and spurious documen's intro- duced as evidence in their trial. Raichle is understood to have told | the grand jury he had no knowledge concerning the introduction of any | manufactured evidence. Raichle is understood to have re- fused to answer certain questions per- | t2ining to the preparation of Pitts' de. fense on the ground that the ethics of his profession would not permit him to divulge any details of the former | relationship between Pitts and himself as client and counsel. He will go before the jury again tomorrow. Charles Malone, accountant of the Bureau of Investigation, is expected to testify after the grand jury excuses Raichle. A large part of the Govern- | ment's case at the trial was based on | | Bis testimony. EDISON’S HANDS BURNED | Says He “Got Hold of Bottle With ‘Wrong Label.” FORT MYERS, Fla, May 26 (P .— Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, had the fingers of both hands bandaged to- day as the result of acid burns received last week. The acid was said to have eaten deep into_the skin, which is peeling off. “Got,_hold of a bottle with the wrorg bel.” was the inventor's only comment. The burns were received during his experiments to produce rubber from f | CUT PRODUCTION URGED | Suggested to Permit Metal Demand | to Catch Up With Supply. | SALT LAKE CITY, May 26 (P.—| F. H. Brownell, chairman of the board of the American Smelting & Refining | T% Co., yesterday advocated running metal mines on 50 per cent production dura said in a newspaper interview, “because in the Summer time those who had been laid off could find other jobs on road building, etc. and cther minerals at once and in the long run everybody would be ahead.” | — 2 Nearly 80,000,000 bushels of wheat have been shipped from Australia this | 3) We should Cur(ll”e the production of silver, copper, lead | o, Win Acclaim MAYFLOWER BOOKS ORDERED RELEASED Court Names Receivers for Hotel—Request for Records Was Refused. (From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) The Mayflower Hotels’ Corporation of America, which operates the hotel un- der its president, Daniel J. O'Brien, was ordered today by Justice Oscar R. Luhring .to surrender to Thomas P. Littlepage and Joshua Evans, jr, re- ceivers of the Mayflower Hotel Co., the books of the hotel management for inspection and audit. The court also named Mabel Walker Willebrandt at- torney for the receivers. Littlepage told the court the auditor for the receivers had reached a point in his audit for the court where it was necessary to inspect the books of the hotel management, the stock of which is held entirely by the company for which the receivers were appointed. Mr. O'Brien, he said, had refused both oral and written requests for the books. Earlier today Eugene F. Kinkead, Lawrence B. Leilman and Frank C. Ferguson, all of New York, describing themselves as a Protective Committee to conserve the rights of owners of sec- ond mortgage bonds of the Mayflower Hotel Co. asked the District Supreme Court to permit them to intervene in the receivership suit and in any further steps taken in the proceedings. The application is to be presented to Justice Luhring by Attorney Edward F. Colladay. Members of the so-called Protective Committee informed the court they were appointed after an agreement en- tered into March 30 by a large number of the second mortgage bondholders. They claimed a direct interest in the proceedings both in the receivership and in any further orders to be entered affecting the bonds and property snd the security held- therefore by them. LEWIS PROPOSES SYSTEM OF LOANS BY U. S. TO STATES (Continued From First Page) that affords background to justify loans by the bankers.” ‘The Senator said there were 11 other cities in the State that were in similar embarrassment and thousands of others throughout the Nation. The -old_belief that the Government t not loan money to States, coun- ties, cities and towns, he said, became archaic with the steady diminishment of State control. “I therefore recommend that we should now devise a system, issuing from the national banking Federal Re- serve act, to provide that where the credit in actual and potential assets xist f poses, or where the estate as suf- 1l extend wns, cities s as the s and tes ficlenty the United Stafd ere loans of money to and States upon such conditl %flv ment of the umuu the T governments in theghs will provide.” I CADET GONTESTS WILL CLOSE TODAY Best Unit of High School Corps Will Be Named Late in Afternoon. The victorious unit in the forty- fourth annual company competitive drills of the Washington High School Cadet Corps will be named at the Grif- fith Stadium late today, bringing to & close a strenuous two-day drill session. Headed by Capt., Alexander R. Boll- ing. United States Army, the military board of judges, including also Lieut. Thomas H. Allen and Lieut. James C. ‘White, this afternoon is judging the ef- forts of the five final companies to take the field. The board's decision will be made public at 5 o'clock. Siaden to Review Cadets. School officlals, including Dr. Prank W. Ballou, superintendent, and Stephen E. Kramer, assistant superintendent, and Dr. H. Barrett Learned, president of the Board of Education, are expected to participate in the final review. MaJ. Gen. Fred W. Sladen, United States Army, commanding gener-l of the 3rd Corp Area, will review tue young sol- diers and will present to the captain of the winning company the diamond- studded Allison Naylor medal. Cadet Sergt. Edmond S. Van Brunt of Western High School, late yesterday defeated four other crack non-commis- sioned officers to win the gold Distin- guished Non-Commissioned Officer’s Medal, in the annual non-com competi- tion. Cadet Sergt. Karl H. Hennige, of Central High School, won second honors and the right to the silver medal. These awards will be made late today. Other competing officers in the non - commissioned _competition were First Sergt. Florelle P. Oddone of Busi- ness High School, Sergt. Major W. Robb of McKinley and Sergt. Lioyd T. Mock- abee of Eastern. Five Companies on Field. ‘The last five companies on the field today are, with their respective cap- tains and schools: Company F of East- ern, Capt. Arthur B. Willis; y H, McKinley High School, Capt. Con- nie E. Lozupone; Company L, Western, Capt. Carl H. Swanson; Comj 1, Eastern, Capt. Robert P. ness; Company G, Western, Capt. War- ren Draper; Company K, Western, Capt. Alvord Rutherford; Company M, West- ern, Capt. James A. Bladen; Company COAL MINERS’ HEAD TO ANNOUNCE STRIKE 4,000 to Be Called Out at Two Properties Near Pitts- burgh. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, May 26—Patrick T. Fagan, president of district No. 5 of the United Mine Workers of America, said today that a strike call would be issued within the next few days to ap- proximately 4,000 miners employed in coal mines of the Pursglove & Paisley interests in the Pittsburgh district. Fagan made the announcement upon his return from Northern West Vir- ginia, where employes at 20 mines have quit work. The Pursglove Coal Co. and the Paisley interests also oper= ate mines in West Virginia. The district president said lower wage scales were paid at the Pursglove and Paisley mines than.at any other mines in the Pittsburgh district. —_— GRAPE CONCENTRATE FIRM IS SUED FOR $250,000 L. W. McCormick Charges Fruit Industries, Ltd.,, With Not Living Up to Agreement, (Prom the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) Pruit Industries, Ltd., of San Fran- cisco, represented here by Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, was named de- fendant in a suit filed today in District Supreme Court by L. W. McCormick, organizer of sales companies, 815 Fif- teenth street. McCormick claimed he had been damaged to the extent of $250,000 by the refusal of the corporation to live "P to an agreement made through Don- ald D. Conn, its managing director, to engage sales organizatiens to handle and market the grape concentrate of the company especially in the States of New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Con- necticut, Maryland and the District of Columbia. The plaintiff said he has been in- formed the company already has con- tracted with other groups to make sales within the area assigned to him. CONCERTS. By the United States Marine Band this evening at Walter Reed Hospital at 6:30 o'clock. Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur Witcomb, second leader March, “The American Army “Les Preludes”.. Solo for trombone “T! Liszt ‘houghts of Love,” By Robert E. Clark. Excerpts from “Bitter Sweet”...Coward Solo for cornet, “Fantasie Capricciose,” By Winfred Kemp. “Souvenir” aese I Solo for xylophone, “Valse Caprice,” ‘Wieniawski Reminiscences of Tschaikowsky.God{rey “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Soldiers’ Home Military Band this evening at the band- stand at 5:30 o'clock. John Zimmer- mann, bandmaster; Anton Poinicer, assistant : March, “Anchor and the Star”..Sousw Overture, “(?ll:ltherlnl Conara”. .Lachne® e Massenex “Evening Mood’ . zerwonky Excerpts from musical comedy, “The Desert Song”.. Romberg Fox trot, “Sing You, Sinners”..Harling Waltz suite, “Brides and Butterflies,” Moret Finale, “Midst Thunder and Canno “The Siar Spangled Banner. By the United States Navy Band this evening at the Sylvan Theater, Mon. ment Grounds, at 7: B G . “Victor Herbert Favoril Valse, “Under My Darling’s “Intcrgducum; to Act III and Bfldflw orus,” from “Lohengrin” . . Wagner Capriche Espanola, “Moraima, Grand march, “Triumphal, Uhm “Anchors s . —ia