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Washington News The Zv ening Skae WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON. )3 SRR THURSDAY, 5, MAY 193 5 PAGE B—1 HUGHES DECLARES NEED OF STRONGER LAW FOUNDATIONS Chief Justice, Addressing In-| stitute, Stresses Full Con- ‘ sideration of Problems. i [ WICKERSHAM URGES STUDY OF PENAL LAWS | Present Statutes Fail to Prevent Large and Varied Amount of 1 Crime, He Says. | Members of the American Law In- stitute were urged to strengthen the foundations of law and society, by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes today. | Addressing the tenth annual session of the institute at the Mayflower Hoteld Chief Justice Hughes warned against the error of perfecting the surerstruc- ture of law if the foundations are left insecure. Although praising the institute for its valuable work in preparing restatements of the law, the Chief Justice also stressed the necessity for full consider- ation of more pressing problems. “We ore living in a time of many anxieties” he said. “But discourage- ment pays no dividends. It is not a time for relaxing effort, but for re- doubling it, for increased activity on every front. The influence of the mem- bers of this body pervades every com- munity. Their special task in this or- ganization is a recongite one, but their interests in the administration of jus- tice far transcends the limits of that task While we are concerned with the higher realms of legal thought we can- not ignore problems, even more press- ing, that concern the supremacy of law. Supreme Court Purpose. He declared the unceasing purpose of the Supreme Court is “to maintain the integrity of a constitutional sys- tem designed to keep government within its assigned limits and, in the interest of an ordered liberty, to es- tablish the rule of reason, recognizing | and applying declared principles.” | George W. Wickersham, president of the institute, emphasized the ‘“neces-| sity for a careful study of our penal laws, with a view to determining whether or not they are reasonably adapted to social conditions in a time like the present.” The former Attorney General called J | on the members to study the laws of crime, not only with a view to defini- tion, but also Tegarding their effect on society as a whole. “That our present laws fail to pre- vent a large and varied amount of | crime must be obvious to all intelligent | observers,” he said. “Too often, the only result of punishment is to create and saddle professional criminals as lifelong burdens on society.” | Wickersham also told the mem- | bers a recent survey showed “the ranks of the unemployed, in proportion to thelr numbers,” produce more persons who are sent to penal institutions than | other branches of society. Eleven Elected Members. | Eleven men were elected to member- ship on the institute’s council of 33 | members. | Those elected are Benjamin N. Car- | dozo, vice president of Institute and | associate justice of United States Su- preme Court; Prederick F. Faville, judge of Supreme Court of Iowa; William I Grubb, Federal judge, Alabama district; Willlam Brown Hale, Chicago attorney; Learned Hand, Federal judge, New York district; Orrin K. McMurray, dean of University of California Lew School Emmett N. Parker, judge of Washington State Supreme Court; William D. Mitchell, Attorney General of United States; Edgar Bronson Tolman, Chicago attorney and editor of American Bar Association Journal; George W. Eheeler, retired Chief Judge of Connecticut; George W. Wickersham, former United States Attorney General, chairman of President Hoover's Committee on Law Observance and Enforcement and presi- dent of American Law Institute. Members of the American Judicature | Bociety, meeting yesterday in connec- tlon with the institute were told by Newton D. Baker, fori Secretary of ‘War, that American lawyers should be | constantly in search of new ideas. | Although introduced as “a former Tesident of Washington, who may pos- sibly live here again,” Mr. Baker care. fully refrained from any political ref- erence last night st the society’s nual dinner, over which he pres toastmaster. Charles A. Bostor York, a former president of the Ameri- can Bar Association, was the principal speaker at the dinner. JUDGE'S HdME ROBBED Burglars Get Cothing and $110 at Caton Residence. Burglars entered the ! Nathan Caton of the at 2948 Macomb stree ing and removed clc $130 and $110 in cast The judge in the house at the turbed ‘The burglar “jim i dow REPEAT HEALTH PROGRAM Puplls of Thomas P. Eighteenth and California terday repeated thelr May demonstraticn before a g officlals, teachers and vis and friends Dance rhythms, y eping were time, undis- a rear win- rgan Schocl, eets, yes- day health! up of school ing parents run- under the direction Lyons, principal, and her staff. D. C. MAN ACCUSE Nun Conduct CATHOLIC SISTERS R s Boys UN MILITARY SCHOOL. This military band at Linton Hall School for Boys has had just six months Sister Loyola Eoin MacWi instruction by their leader, Stewart, Francis Crcmwe Cannon, Herman Gulbranson, James Fin: Louis Kengla, Thomas Andre Clairvax, Harry Fleischmann, Lawrence Tolson, Joseph Salm youngsters in khaki, com- [ fi posing the Linton Hall Mili- tary Band, broke forth right lustily on a variety of instruments, and the quiet Virginia countryside resounded with the theme of Montezuma's halls and Trip- oli’s shores. “Six months ago not one of thase boys knew one note from another,” explained Sister Loyola, the proud instructor and leader of the band, whose accomplish- ments constitute one of the unusual features of an unusual venture in edu- cation which the black-robed Benedic- tine nuns are making at Linton Hall On an old Virginia estate outside of Manassas, which still retains the name of the Linton family, whose homeplace it was, this Cathclic teaching order. which for years nas maintained a school there—first for girls and latterly for boys—has gone a step farther and now is putting the establishment on a military basis. A military school should have a mili- tary band, reasoned Sister Loyola, who herself is not many years removed from a Washington class room, so six months ago she started to work, and the crown- ing achievement comes Saturday after- noon when the “bandsmen,” who range D now,” said Sister Loyola. play the Marine hymn." Whereupon some 20-odd nd John Kreamer., In the picture are: Adrian Lee, George | . Ned Quigley, William n, Berkeley Christian, Robert McKecver, Le Roy Richardson, Francis vard Gramm, Joseph Becker, ite, John Bec! in age from 10 to 13 years, will broad- | cast over WRC. The aggregation has mastered trum- pets, clarinets, trombones, alto horns a saxophone, bass horn, snare drums and bass drum, and though their in- structress admits with a laugh that the combined efforts were just a bit trying on nerves and ears for a while, and that as a concession to reasonable peace and quiet it became necessary to hold prac- tice sessions in the woods she has no apologies to make for the results A member of the Agnes—now dead, first conceived this idea, and in January, Lieut. Lawrence Scott Carson, jr. a Cavalry Rescrve officer, experienced & the routine of Citizens' Military ining Camps, over the assignmint of instilling y principles into youngsters. companies have been formed, the boys now are switching into uni- form, and under the leadership of their non-coms, the idea is taking firm hold The sisters are no poor disciplinarians, though 88 boys are concerned, and one of their number, Sister Claudia, the directress, whose duties also includes keeping score for ball games, is Te- putedly able to accomplish more by one glance at an evildoer, than any one \else using other tried methods. SS9 PAD ON CHET PLEDGES Figure Represents 63 Per Cent of Total—Deficit of New President $300,000 Faced. Approximately 63 per cent of the $2,415,715 pledged in the 1932 Com- munity Chest campaign has been paid, according to figures made public yes- terday by Robert V. Fleming, treasurer of the Chest. Payments up to and including April 30 have totaled $1,529,381.79, Mr. Flem- ing announced. Of this amount $801,- 694.31 was paid by the Government de- partments and represents 79.61 per cent of the $1,007,026.17 pledged by Govern- ment employes. Washingtoniafis other than Government employes have paid $727.687.48, or 51.65 cent, of -their | total pledges of $1,408.688 | The higher percentage of payments | on the part of Government employes, | Mr. Fleming said, is due to their three. month payment plan. giving one day's pay each month, while the rest of | Washington almost universally sub- scribed on a 10-payment plan. Many of the Government employes later | changed to the 10-payment plan, which | accounts for their contribations not be- ing paid in full by now Elwood Street, director of the Chest, said the Chest already this year has | paid to its various constituent agencies 1$320,000 more than had been paid at this time last year. At the present rate of expenditure, he said, the Chest must face a deficit of at least $300,000. SCHOOLS ASK FUND FOR EMERGENCIES $40,000 forr Repeir Work Out of Half Million Appr Proposed to District. opriation The Board of Education today pr posed to the District Commissioners the setting up of a $40,000 fund for emergency tepair work, the money to come from the regular $500,000 repair appropriation The School Board adopted the plan | at its meeting yesterday and proposed that it bec operation me the “fixed method of handling school repairs he proposal was included in an 11- point statement of “policy” governing r to District school buildings plan work of an emer- ire would be executed prompt- id for out of the $40,000 f ¢ of which wculd aut to the regular t the end of e D OF STEALING irs spriation ch year HIS OWN AUTOMOBILE IS FREED Judge Sheriff Dismisses Case Was Attached By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. f HYATTSVILLE, Md., May 5.—A man sccused of the larceny of his own au- tomobile was freed in Police Court yes- terday. He was Harry N. Evans, 600 block of F street, Washington, whose car had been attached in a civil suit and was being held in & garage here. Defense | Attorney J. Wilson Ryon brought out, however, that there was no evidence Evans took the car and Judge J. Chew Sheriff dismissed the case. - tence for sec- | Kalorama road, also arrested by Officer | Dr. Margaret M. Nicholson, Dr. Edgar | 4 iense driving whi ) o jon | D. Griffin, Dr. Wallace M. Yater and ' Pennsylvania lnp %m sey also addr d offense driving while drunk was appealed by John L. Kitchen of Balti- at Hyattsville in Which Car in Civil Suit. more, who was arrested by State Police- man N. G. Falkenstine. Kitchen was also fined $10 for reckless driving. His appeal bond was set_at $1,000 Oden Swann of Priest Bridge Md who, according to County Policeman Raiph Brown, had the driver's permit of & dead man in his possession, but no permit of his own, was fined $10 for operating without a permit and $50 for transportation and on of seven half gallons of alleged liquor. He pleaded guilty to both charges. John W. Fredericks, 1700 block of Brown for transportati, land speeding, drew fines 101. DR. HARRY ATWOOD FOWLER. —Harris-Ewing Photo DR, HARRY FOWLER NANED BY DOCTORS District Medical Society Elects Surgeon as Its New President. arry Atwood Fowler was elected » District Medical nual business meetin succeeds Dr. Arthur Other officers chosen were Dr Schreiber, first vice presid Gladys Kain, second vice | Dr. Coursen B. Conklin asurer. All were elected unar Dr. Christie, Dr. Harry Sau and Dr. Janvier W. Lindsay w ed to serve three-year te Executive Committee and D: Borden was elected to Committee for three years Hopkins Graduate. The new president is & graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Medical School and is one of Washington's lead- ing surgeons. He is attending surgeon at Emergency Hospital and consultant urologist to the Mount Alto Ve Hospital, He also is vice president of the American Association of Urological Surgeons. This morning the scientific assemblies of the two-day annual meeting of the jety continued with & symposium on cular disease. This afternoon there was to be a similar discussion of disease and tonight Dr. Haven Em son of New York City will speak on the Mutual Responsibility of the Medic Profession and the Laity in the Organ ization of Preventive Efforts in a Com- ml’l!?r:‘r) address tonight will be the only | public session of the two-day meeting, Which is being held in the District Med- | ical Soctety Bullding, 1718 M street. Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, president of |the Board of District Commissioners, | will preside. Today's Speakers. Those who spoke this morning and their subjects follow: Dr. Leslie T. Gager, “The Clinical Aspects of Aneu- rism of the Aorta”: H. Lynn Col- vin, “The Vaccine Therapy of Thrombo- Anglitis Obliterans”; Dr. Charles R. L. Halley, “Congenital Arterio-Venous Pis- tulax”; Dr. Harry H. Kerr, “Traumatic Arterio-Venous Fistula Cured by Opera- tion." and Dr. Fred R. Sanderson, | “Heart Faflure Due to Femoral Arterio- Venous Pistula Cured by Operation. Those to speak this afternoon were Dr. | Dr. Emanuel Libman of New York City. faculty—Sister | al | Band | FORBIDDEN FOREST FOUND IN QUEST OF * AN ANCESTORS Blood-Sucking Leeches and Nettles Hide Habitat of Weird Animals. HOPKINS MAN DISPUTES RELATIONSHIP THEORY Richard Archbold Finds Lemures in Remote Part of Mada- gascar., BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A veritable forbidden forest was de- scribed before the American Society of Mammalogists meeting here last night by Richard Archbold of the American Museum of Natural History. Archbold came upon it in Southern Madagascar while hunting lemurs— weird nocturnal creatures who stand just below the monkeys in the scale of evolution, In this one narrow forest, about 3 miles wide and 50 miles long, there are two varieties of lemurs found | nowhere else in the world. Here they | are undisturbed by hunters. The firs | obstacle, Mr. Archbold s: is con- stituted by hordes of literally millions of blood-sucking leeches, which he compared .to swarms of army ants ‘They cover the shrubbery and are sure| to fasten themselves on any human being who encounters them. Nettle Also on Guard. If he avoids the leeches the hunter runs into a peculiar kind of nettle, a vine which discharges into the air white, flufly seeds which will work their way through the clothing, as well as attack the unprotected parts of the skin. The only way to get rid of them is to remove the clothes and thoroughly wash them. Because of these two obstacles, said, the forest is almost entirely deserted. A few natives live around the edges, but seldom venture inside. In the ussion of lemurs, which followed Mr. Archbold's paper, Dr. E Huber of Johns Hopkins University toid | the mammalogists that his recent stu- ! dies on the facial musculature of the tarsius, one of the weidest of living animals which often has been declared | the nearest living relative of man, show that the strange little Malayan lemur is not entitled to this distinction. In | | some physical characters tarsius, a | pocturnal creature about the size of a squirrel, is believed to come closer to man than any other member of the general monkey family—even the great apes. The theory has been that it represented a special and very early offshoot from the simian stock which later split off into two branches. One took to a life of seclusion and darkness and became the little lemur. The other | continued to progress and became man. But, Huber finds, the musculature is| {not such as would indicate an arrested stage ‘of the evolutionary process which | ended in the extremely intricate human facial musculature. Rather, he said, it {shows that tarsius is only a very highly | specialized lemur. | A picture of animal evolution in | progress was given by Philip F. Allan of | the University of Michigan. A few years ago there was a queer little mouse | {confined to one of the sandy islands | off the Cape Cod coast. It was so! nicely colored in relation to the sand dunes that it would become invisible within about 15 feet of an observer. | His study showed it has practically, {become merged with a close relative from the mainland in the past few year. s0 that its chief distinguishing char- | 1acter no longer is evident. he | Progress of the biological sciences in {the Far FEast and in Russia was| | described by Harold J. Coolidge of | | Harvard Uni | | A recent notible find in Russia, he| | said, was the end of a mammoth’ | trunk. This shows the creature really | | had long finger-like processes on the | end, almost exactly like those pictured on ancient cave drawings. ‘KLONDIKE BOB’ FLIES OWN PLANE TO D. C. | Singer Met by Judge James Wick- ersham to Plan Alaskan Concert Hop. Flying his own plane from Newark, Robert M. Crawford, concert baritone and radio artist, landed today at Wash- ington Airport, where he was met by Judge James Wickersham, with whom | he will discuss a forthcoming “fiying | concert tour” through Alaska { Crawford, was born in Dawson when | | it was only a mining camp. He grew up among miners to whom he was known as “Klondike Bob.” One of them, Douglas Morgan, 70, an_employe of the Washington Times, taught Craw- ford to play the violin, Crawford continued his musical edu- cation at Princeton, and later studied in France. On his return to the United States, he became head of the Newark Musie Foundation and later formed the Chautauqua Opera Co. | AIR LINE BILL FAVORED McNary Measure Provides Board | to Develop Foreign Trade. | By the Associated Press. | A favorable report on the McNary bill | | to establish and develop a foreign air | transport service was voted today by | | the Senate Commerce Committee. | Under the bill, a board of four cabinet | officers would develop foreign com- erce by air, and the Postmaster Gen- | eral would grant mail contracts far two- | | way routes in foreign commerce, The contracts, for 10 years, would be | awarded to the lowest bidder with the | stipulation American-built ships be used. | — ITALIANS VISIT HOOVER Republican Columbian League Plans Expansion. ‘The Columbian Republican League, composed of Italian-American voters of half a dozen Eastern States, will ex- pand to a Nation-wide organization, it was announced today by the Repub- lican National Committee. Delegates who met here today were received by President Hoover and heard Secretary of Labor Doak praise Italians in' this country as leading all other foreign groups in the acquisition of American citizenship. The committee said the league would be extended to States having 92 per cent of the Italian-American popula- tion of the country. Senators Davis of Barbour of New Jer- the conference. Patriotic Group Honors Pastor WREATH PLACED ON GRAVE OF REVOLUTIONARY HERO. D also was honored. Both were prominent residents of Georgetown. R. MARK F. FINLEY, national vice president of the Sons of the American Revolution, is pictured above as he . 3 placed a floral tribute on the grave of Dr. Stephen Bloomer Balch, Revolutionary hero, schoolmaster of note @PProved the new contract. and founder of Georgetown Presbyterian Church, in Oak Hill Cemetery yesterday. The wreath was one of two placed by the S. A. R. yesterday on Revolutionary graves. Lieut. Col. Forrest —Star Staft Photo. D.C. VOTE SOUGHT “INDRY MEASURE Tydings Urges Amendment Providing Referendum on Howell Bill. An amendment providing for submis- sion of the Howell prohibition enforce- ment bill to a vote of the people of the District will be urged by Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland when the Senate District Committee meets | tomorrow afternoon to act on the local | measure. | Senator Tydings said he is advancing | a referendum amendment to the bill on | the theory the States have the kind of | local enforcement laws their people want, and he believes the residents of ‘Washington should be given an oppor- tunity to say whether they want the Howell bill. ‘The District Committee also will have laid before it tomorrow a reply Chair- | man Capper has received from Attorney | General Mitchell, who was asked by‘ the committee a few weeks ago to go over the bill in its present form. n the bill was first being drafted ears ago, the Attorney General took exception to the clause extending the search warrant authority in the | case of dwellings and one other feature of the bill. The search warrant provi- sion has been modified. DELEGATES VISIT NURSERY SCHOOLS Childhood Education Convention | Marked by Tour and Hoover Reception. Delegates to the twenty-ninth annual convention of the Association for Child- hood Education, now meeting here in the Willard Hotel, spent this morning visiting nursery schcols, kindergartens | and the first three grades of elementary | schools. When the visits were concluded the delegates went to the White House, where they were received by President Hoover at 12:30 o'clock. The delegates will divide into four | groups this afternoon for consideration of various phases of childhood educa- tional work. They will meet at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the auditorium of Central High School, where an “All States” tableau will be presented. Tomorrow morning they will meet in the auditorium of the United States Chamber of Commerce. An interesting feature in connection with the meeting is an educational ex- hibit now being shown at the Willard | Hotel, featuring photographs cf chil- | dren at work, with accompanying ma- terials made by children. HAWLEY IS INJURED BY WOMAN’S AUTO Representative Waves Driver to| Proceed, Not Realizing He Is Hurt. Representative Willis C. Hawley, Re- publican, of Oregon, was stunned and bruised about the head and chest today when struck by an automobile n front of the House Office Building, He was taken to his office and ex- amined by Dr. George W. Calver, House physician, who ordered him to return home and rest. The automobile which ran Hawley down was driven by & wom- an. When she asked if he was badly hurt, he waved her to drive on, the Representative said, not realizing the extent of his injuries. | Three other persons were injured, two | of them seriously, in traffic accidents late yesterday and early today. Joseph_Piccolo, 38, of the 600 block Maryland avenue southwest, received serious head injuries when his_ bicycle struck a Washington-Alexandria bus yesterday at Fourteenth and B streets southwest. DINNER SPEA.KERS NAMED Dr. Richard C. Cabot of Harvard University, former Senator Allen of Kansas, Senator Robinsen of Indiana, Prof. Jacob Hollander of Johns Hop- kins and Mrs. Clem Shaver of West Virginia will be among the speakers at a law observance dinner at the May- flower Hotel May 9, it has been an- nounted by the Citizens' Service Asso- ciation for Law and Order. The dinner will be sponsored by a group of women's national organizations with the co-operation of the local Service Association. Iug; Will Elect Officers. BARCROQFT, Va., May 5 (Special).— The Barcroft School and Civic League will meet tonight in the community house here. Officers will be elected. | motor vehicles for Pennsylvania, intro- District Democrats Select May 18 for Holding of Primary District Democrats will hold their primary May 18, it was announced today by John B. Colpoys, chairman of the State Central Committee in charge of the quadrennial balloting. The filing day will be set to- morrow, according to Colpoys, who said that either the 11th or 12th of this month would b: the final date upon which candi- dates may file, at the Central Committee’s headquarters on the sixth floor of the Home Life Building, 1003 Vermont avenue. The primary will select six del- egates and six alternates to the National Convention in Chicago, a national committeeman, na- tional committeewoman and 22 members of the Central Com- mittee. UNIFORM TRAFFIC LAWS ADVOCATED Speed and Safety Regula- tions Also Taken Up at Conference Here. Uniformity of traffic laws throughout the various States and new regulations to govern the speed of motor vehicles on | the public highways, will be urged on | the Legislatures of the Eastern States as an outcome of action taken by motor vehicle administrators in conference here today. Benjamin C. Eynon, commissioner of duced a resolution directing that a committee be named to take up with automobile manufacturers the question of speed and safety, with particular ref- erence /to the industry's responsibility in reducing accident hazards. | The conference, which closes tomor- | Tow, is attended by State officials under whose offices come the administration of | motor vehicle laws. Sitting in are Sec- retaries of State, chiefs of highway po- lice, commissioners of motor vehicles and other officers. The meetings are being held at the Hamilton Hotel. Attending are officials from Tennessee, Connecti- cut, New Jersey, Michigan, Towa, Penn- sylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. The need for legislative action was stressed at the meeting by Col. A. B. Barber, director of the National Con- ference on Street and Highway Safety. He directed attention to the certifi- cate of title law adopted by the Dis- trict of Columbia government, which is practically identical with the uniform anti-theft act advocated by the Na- tional Conference. Thomas H. McDonald, director of the United States Bureau of Public Roads, will address the meeting tomorrow morning and tomorrow afternoon the | delegates will be guests of the Washing- | ton Automotive Trade Association in a sightseeing trip. The group were guests of the American Automobile Association at luncheon at the Willard Hotel at noon today. SMOKE SCREEN SICKENS OFFICERS CHASING AUTO | Two Colored Men, Believed Rum Runners, Escape After Race Through Northwest Bection. Employing & chemicalized smoke screen which made pursuing policemen 111, two colored men, believed to be rum runners, eluded the officers in & spec- tacular chase in the northwest section early today. Policemen F. P. Martin and A. T Davis, third precinct, said the chase began at Sixteenth and Church streets, when a touring car with drawn cur- tains passed them and sped north. The fugitive car and the police machine turned east on U street, where the for- mer opened the smoke spparatus. Davis reported that both Martin and himself were ill for more than an hour | after breathing fumes from the smoke. TRAPPED BY PHOTOS Autoist Fined After Bringing Pic- tures Into Court. Prank M. Doyle, 33, of the 200 block of Thirteenth street northeast, brought some convincing photographs into Traffic Court today when he appeared to -’nswer & charge of disobeying an official sign. Doyle was arrested yesterday by Offi- cer Raymond V. Sinclair of the Traffic Bureau for driving between two street car loading platforms on Massachusetts lvg;uf nen& the Ct{ty mfi Office. . yle subsequently hotogral of the position of his mlghlnc wm he was arrested by Sinclair and sub- mitted them to Judge Isaac R. Hitt today. Doyle wél¥fined $3 on the strength yle of his own hotographs. LIMIT ON MOTHERS AID FUND ASSALED Welfare Workers Present Petition to Bingham, Ask- ing Revision of Bill. Groups interested in social and wel- fare work today presented a petition to Senator Hiram Bingham of Con- necticut, chairman of the District Sub- committee of the Senate Appropriations month limitation per family on mothers’ ald payments, written into the appro- priation bill by the House, be eliminated. The petition points out that of the 174 families now being alded by the Board of Public Welfare under the mothers’ pension act, 63 require pay- ments in excess of $80 per month. Of the 45 States granting mothers’ aid, according to the petition, 35 have no fixed allowance per family. ‘The papers accompanying the peti- | tion and discussing the reason for mak- ing it, point out the object of mothers’ aid is to preserve a normal standard of living, above the bare level of sub- sistence, for those who, because of con- ditions in the industrial society in which they live, are unable to provide that standard for themselves. CHARLES RAY DEAN, NOTED LAWYER, DIES Attended Hague, Peace Conference | and Served on Root ! Commission, Charles Ray Dean, prominent inter- national lawyer, died yesterday after a protracted iliness. He formerly main- tained offices in the Colorado Building. Funeral services will be held a Speare’s funeral parlor, 1623 Connect- | icut avenue, at 11 o'clock tomorrow | morning, followed by burial in Glen- wood Cemetery. Rev. William S. Aber- nethy, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, will officiate at the services. Mr. Dean was deacon emeritus of the church. | Honorary pallbearers at the funeral services will include George H. Ken- nedy, Dr. Willlam K. Butler, Willlam Herd Hill, Judge W. R. Turner, H. Pres- cott Gatley, A. Coulter Wells, Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan and Dr. W. R. Dubose. Born in Chicago in 1857, Mr. Dean came to Washington after his gradua- | tion from the University of Chicago. He | entered the State Department, first serving under Elihu Root, and became chief of the Bureau of Appointments, He attended The Hague peace confer- ence, was & member of the Root South American Commission and was ap- | pointed American delegate to the Turin | Exposition. | He was a member of the Lawyers' | Club, the University Club, the Chevy | Chase Club and Psi Upsilon fraternity. TWO FACE DRY CHARGE Man and Woman Arrested Transportation Allegation. | Samuel R. Thomas, 27, and Margaret Thomas, 19, both of the 100 block of Seventh street northeast, were charged | with the transportation of liquor today | when & policeman, who halted their car | on Florida avenue near Fifth street, dis- | covered nine cases of alleged whisky in the machine. A charge of speeding also was placed against the man by Police- man F. J. Rowen, Traffic Bureau. on Committee, asking that the $75 per | ST PILPISTL LEASE APRDIA DENED Y MEAR Controller General Tells Sen- ate Probers He Never Talked | - With Good in Matter. {CONTRACT CANCELED *BY U. S. AS FRAUDULENT | Former Secretary of War Had Rep- resented Owners of Building in Heavy Rental. Controller General McCarl denied to- | day before a Senate committee that he | had approved the new lease for the St. | Paul, Minn,, commercial station post office, which eliminated the cancella- tion clause. He testified before the Special Senate Committee investigating postal leases. | . According to previous testimony, the late former Secretary of War, James W. Good, who engineered the new lease, told Government officials McCarl had | Lease Later Cancelled. ‘The lease was later characterized by a grand jury as fraudulent and canceled by the Government. | It reduced the annual rental from $120,750 to $120,000 in return for mak- ing the lease non-cancellable for 20 | years. Later when the Government con- demned the property, it was given a valuation of $325254, or only about three times the annual rental. | Represented Owners. | Good, then a practicing attorney, | represented the owners of the property in negotiating the new lease with for- mer Postmaster General New. McCarl testified today he had never talked with Good about the lease, nor | approved it in any way. | He 1identified a report made by his office in 1923, in which “collusion” was charged in the negotiation of the oriz- inal lease. G. 0. P. WILL OPEN | TWO MORE BASES Bulk of Campaign Work Will Be Carried on in Chicago and | New York. | Campaign headquarters will be opened | by the Republican National Committee |in Chicago and in New York soon after the conclusion of the Republican na- ticnal convention, it was said today by Robert H. Lucas, executive director of | the National Committee. | The National Gommittee headquarters | in Washington, however, will be main- tained, Mr. Lucas said, and some of the campaign work will be done here. The | great bulk of the work will be carried lon in Chicago and New York. He | pointed out that this has been the practice of the Republicans in past cam- paigns. In 1928 and 1924 extensive headquarters were operated by the Republican _national _organization in Chicago and also in New York. ARSON PLOT BLOCKED Employe's Quick Action Saves Ga- rage—Five Hoodlums Flee. CHICAGO, May 5 (#).—An arson plot that would have destroyed a huge garage and 92 trucks and passenger cars was nipped by the quick action of an_employe early today. Five men, after kidnaping two em- ployes of the garage, pumped gal- lons of gasoline onto the floor and automobiles and had lighted a news- paper as a torch when another em- ploye turned in a police alarm and fired through the window. The five hoodlums took flight, but Jack Sopkin, who held the torch, ran into the arms of police. He has a criminal record. Frankie Levin, who had loaned Sopkin his automobile, was later arrested. OFFERS BII:LS MONDAY $75,000,000 of 91-Day Notes to Be Sold by Mills. Secretary Mills has announced the Treasury would sell $75,000,000 of 91- day Treasury bills next Monday. The bills will be dated May 11, and mature August 10. They will be sold to the highest bicders and redeemed at face value. The money received will be used to retire $76.000,000 in Treasury bills which mature May 11. WINS SPELLING MATCH At the Capital City Spelling Club match at Mt. Pleasant Library, Willard B. Smith of Clarendon, Va., won his third consecutive victory last night. ‘The winning word which he spelled correctly last night was “pantoum,” meaning a form of verse, The next match of the club will be & free-for-all contest to be held at the same place, Wednesday, May 18. MOTHERHOOD CLAIM CONTESTED AS WIFE FAILS TO SHOW CHILD Case Argued in By the Assoclated Press. WEST PAL MBEACH, Fla., May 5. —Whether Mrs. Cecile Porter Rouse became the mother of a baby here April 7 was the question before the Circuit Court yesterday. Mrs. Rouse asserts she did, accord- ing to her husband, Charles P. Rouse of Washington, D. C., who has been separated from his wife for several months, On receipt of the news that a baby had been born to his wife, he told the court, he came here, but she refused to let him see the infant. | He obtained a writ of habeas corpus| to compel his wife to produce the child | in court Monday. She appeared, but| the child did not. It was reported to attorneys then that a relative had| taken the child out of the State, Judge C. E. Chillingworth continued the hearing until yesterday, but when the case msd called neither Mrs. Rouse nor the ci appeared. Rouse’s attorneys asked the court to | Washingtonian, Estranged From Wife, Denied Proof. Florida Court. award custody of the child to the father or to hold that no such child existed. The attorneys say no birth certifi- cate has been found that is considered valid, and that they can produce wit- nesses who saw Mrs. Rouse walking about the streets on the day she claims the child was born. Charles P. Rouse is a Christian Sci- ence practitioner here, with offices in the Woodward Bullding. His sister, Mrs. Ernest Lee, 2809 Chesterfield place, stated today he went to Florida last week. Rouse lives with his sister and brother-in-law at the Chesterfield place address, Mrs, Lee sald Rouse's wife formerly lived in Florida. They were married about a year ago and Mrs. Rouse left here in September. She returned for a visit in January and then returned to Plorida. Mrs. Lee says Rouse is not convinced the child exists.