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! @[}[ BURIED [MRS. COOLIDGE'S COURAGE WINS | E ADMIRATION AT NORTHAMPTON! INVERMONT HILLS 6igov, ot Former Prardans Beere Up went] OTIES TO REFORM in Trying Day, Which In"l“d‘?d 200- Appeal Made in 1930 Recall- Mile Motor Trip to Plymoutli. Vt. ed—Saw Graft and High BY LORENA A. HICKOK, Taxes as Evils. Associated Fiess Staft Writer. NORTHAMPTON, Mass, January With the coursge and poise and COOLIDGE WANTED {HOOVER AND PARTY BACK FROM RITES| = Special Train Brings Presi- dent From Funeral at Northampton, IBYRD EARNED PAY, R.F. C. JOBLESS AID DECLARES UPHAMUNDER GROSS FIRE Navigation Bureau Chief Sharp Criticisms Develop at Cites Active Duty Although " Hearings on.La Follette- on Retired List. . Costigan Bill. Simple “Committal Services Held in Quiet Graveyard. & Plymouth. Plymouth—some of the women came up with shawls hastily thrown over .| their heads. There, too, were a few who ; | had followed the procession up over a (Continued From First Page.) By the Associated Pro By the Associated Press. By the Associated Press. By the Assoclated Press thoughtfulness for others that made her one of the best loved women who ever | lived in the White House, the widow of | Calvin Coolidge shared her grief with | the Nation today. For Mrs. Coolidge it was a'long and trying day. 1t began at 8 r't{nck mb‘t)ge morning, with the removal of the body As the party left the Cometer oar |of her husband from their home to guards, & took posts at the four | the Jonathan Edwards Congregational e R gire P | Church, where President and Mrs corners of the graveyard. They Te-| mained as darkness fell and prspsredlflm"” and other leaders in national| 3 life paid honor to him at a ceremony | :}ghr‘cmm on watch throughout the | ot iwas assimple and as austere as the | floral tributes " | tiny hamlet in the Green Mountains About the grave | whence he came. | from high and among them &1 "It ended this evening with her re-| Wreath from the folks of Plymouth. A !yt M40 "oy & Bkl v silken band across the fresh flowers torcq 200 miles, up and back, to the old bore only the words, “Plymouth Neigh- | Goglidge home at Plymouth, ‘Vt.,, where, | and then recited the words of Robert Richardson’s poem, concluding with the words “Good night, dear heart, good night, good night.” A simple benediction ended the service. Guardsmen on Duty. lay | | winding, slippery road from Ludlow in cars from Massachusetts and Vermont. She returned through the sleet and | rain for a brief visit to the Coolidge home—the house whose new roof and other improvements had occupied her husband’s thoughts to the end. Then, accompanied by her son and her daughter-in-law and her friend, Mrs. R. B. Hills, she started back on the |long drive through the hills to North- ampton. During the funeral service at the church this morning, Mrs. Coolidge ex- hibited the sort of courage and forget- fulness of self that drew admiring com- ments from friends and strangers alike. As she entered the auditorium from the pastor’s study, there was a slight smile on her face—a reassuring smile, Coolidge in 1930 believed the greatest need of government in the United States was municipal reform. He said so in an article written October 11 of that year for the 15th enniversary number of the Buffalo Evening News. After saying that “very little change was to be expected in the national Gov- ernment because the “executive and legislative functions ezre on a sound foundation,” he wrote that municipal governments, however, “in many in- stances are not a credit to us.” He wrote in part: “It is in this fleld (municipal government) most frequently interferes with patriot- nicipal affairs will force an enlightened BUFFALO, N. Y., January 7.—Calvin | that politics | ism. The growing burden of taxation | and the increasing complexity of mu-| Carrying with them a sad memory | of final tribute paid to Calvin Coolidge |in the little flower-banked church near his Northampton home, President Hoover and other of the Government's + | mighty returned to the Capital early | last night—their pilgrimage of homage | ended. | Head bowed, the Chief Executive had | listened through a solemn, but un- | ostentatious funeral ceremony for the |man in whose cabinet he served and whom he succeeded and had spoken of his sorrow personally to Mrs. Cool- idge before boarding his special train for a swift trip back to Washington. bors.” Tomorrow night these neighbors plan to hold a memorial service in the | neat, white church which stands in the | village directly behind the room mE which Mr. Coolidge was born. | Tonight & light still flickered in the living room of the old Coolidge home- | stead—the home where Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office as President of the United States on the night when President Harding died. Bestde the light, alone with her memories of the former President and his father and his | sons who had played about the old | house in other days, was Miss Plerce. | She sat in an old-fashioned rocking chair beside the table on which rested the Bible on the morning when John Coolidge swore in his son as the Na- tion’s Chief Executive. NORTHAMPTON QUIET. Three Days of Sorrowful Activity Are Ended. NORTHAMPTON, Mass., January 7 (#)—The city was quiet again tonight after three days of sorrowful activity. Its foremost citizen, Calvin Coolidge, has made his last trip to Plymouth; the Nation's Chief Executive and dig- nitarles who joined in a final farewell have gone, and Northampton's resi- dents have withdrawn to their homes. The section of the city around the Beeches was deserted. Two State troop- ers paced back and forth in front of the gate of the estate. No lights shone from within. BIRTHDAYS OF JACKSON AND LEE TO BE OBSERVED U. D. C. Chapter Will Celebrate Anniversaries at Meeting on January 21. The birthday anniversaries of Rob- ert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson will be observed by Stonewall Jackson Chap- ter, No. 20, United Daughters of the Confederacy, at a meeting January 21, at Confederate Memorial Hall. A committee headed by Mrs. H. G. Clay is preparing an appropriate pro- gram. Jackson was born January 21, 1824, while Lee’s birthday was January 19, 1807. Newly elected officers of the chapter will be tendered a reception at the meeting. They are Miss Frances Shirs ley, president: Miss Gretna Boswell, first vice president; Mrs. Grace Koob; second vice president; Miss Maud Sneed, recording secretary; Mrs. Charles Em- brey, corresponding secretary; Miss Pannie Anderson, treasurer; Mrs. Cora Talley, registrar; Miss Blanche Cook- sey, historian: Mrs. H. G. Clay, cus- todian; Mrs. Edward Campbell Shields, rliamentarian, and Mrs. Nelson P. ‘ebster, chaplain. CONFERENCE TO BE HELD ON HOME CONSERVATION Educators, Ministers and Observers to Participate in Calvary Bap- tist Church Sessions. A conference on the conservation of the home will open here Wednesday at the Calvary Baptist Church, with a group of leading educators, ministers and scientific cbservers participating in | ld'lrbncusslon of modern matrimonial prob-/| 5. Beginning in the morning with 'a| seminar for ministers on “Safeguarding Marriage” the convention will continue through the afterncon session, when | Dr. William A. White of St. Elizabeth's | Hospital, Prof. E. R. Groves of the Un versity of North Carolina and Dr. L.| Foster Wood, secretary of the Commit- tee on Marriage and the Home of the| Federal Council of Churches, New York, will speak. At a public meeting from 8 to 9:30 at night talks will be maae on various as pects of marriage and the home. SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY WILL MEET TOMORROW as sleet battered down on a canvas as though she wished to spare those who citizenship to greater activity in secur- CAPITAL YOUTH, 2, marquee erected for her protection, she | Z‘mr"" the pain of reslization of her heard the clergyman read the burial e . fith| She wore mno vell to hide her face, B and & poem Which ended With | e yas dressed stmply and quietly in “ i black Ciood ighls st eait. fiood nlzht_i Again she smiled, as she and her ‘Thie akie wi dATk in' the storm | Risd ot of the pew iney. hed ahared e skies were so dark in the storm | filed out of the pew they share that headlights on the automobiles in| with the President and Mrs. Hoover— the funeral procession had been turned |a tender, solicitous smile as she linked on long before they reached the grim!|her arm through that of her daughter- little cemetery in the rain-drenched | in-law. R hills. | “she is a very \f'nnderful person,” As far as possible, the widow of the | one of her fellow townsmen said of the fnrmrr‘Fregd(;mh“as nl?’nr;mm;:ze nl‘:t :‘&dow 3! Cnlvx:l ?n{;lflfige !unlxl;ll, ;Par- moments. Only her son John, his wife | haps she won't feel like coming down and a few old friends approached the | town mornings to do her shopping as g;rda\'e with th;‘ clewfig‘mn. ‘dOn a m”fi s};fl‘s always done, but we all hope she side across the muddy road a small | will. crowd of men and women watched in | “She’s the kind of person who cheers silence. They were the residents of | you up just to meet her on the street.” CLUB'S OFFICERS ASSUNE POSTS Miss Nora B. Huffman Is| Installed as President of Soroptimists. Takes Office Miss Nora B. Huffman, newly elected | president of the Washingten Soropti- mist Club, was installed last night at a banquet in the Washington Hotel. Others inducted into office included Mrs. Annie W. Ball, first vice president; Mrs. Clara May Downey, second vice president; Miss Lilllas Cropper, u‘eu-i urer; Mrs. Marie Collier Rogers, record- ing secretary; Miss Mary V. Judge, cor- | responding secretery, and Mrs. Lulu M. | Lybrand and Mrs. Eva J. Turner, mem- bers of the board of directors. Mrs. Nell R. Hysong, retiring president, con- ing better administration of our city governments. “Another element that will force the same result is the prevalence of crime in many large centers of population. + o+ The first line of defense against crime is the police. that force depends upon the mayor. Primarily, the crime question is a ques- our cities.” He predicted that socity in the future would demand cranges in legal | procedure making it easier to convict criminals. He wrote that “what was intended as a shield for the innocent has been converted into a protection for the guilty. Old methods will be discarded for a procedure that will be mare effeciive in the protection of the rights of honest Jaw-abiding citizens.” He wrote that the only need in the National Governmental set-up was im- provement Jn “technique” of adminis- tering the Government and purification of elections in many localitles, a reform which he said was greatly needed. and France and the War Debts Former Premier Answers Arguments Made in Senate by Johnson and Last Month. The disciplire of | tion of the attitude of the mayors ol ; The presidential special train cut nearly 45 minutes off its scheduled run- ning time; Teaching the Oapital at 7:53 pm With Mrs.- Hoover by his side, the President - walked through the huge Union Station here as a small throng stood in respectful silence, themselves paying tribute to -the late President through the medium cf the only living | holder of that high office. The same feeling of bowed heads attended the others leaving the train, among them Vice President Curtis, Chief Justice Hughes, Justice Stone of the Supreme Court, Secretaries Adams and Chapin, and large delegations from the Senate and House, led by Senator | Watson of Indiana and Representative | Treadway of Massachusetts. The President was obviously moved during the Northampton Church serv- ices earlier in the day, rarely lifting his eves or head during the funeral cere- mony. With Mrs. Hoover at his side, lhe sat n _the front Tow of the smali church. - Mrs. Coolidge and her son |and daughter-in-law sat beside them. Borah on Default BY EDOUARD HERRIOT. s fiméi" ““{’é"'" But n:nou mere | declarations, 08¢ very itentions, By Cable to The Star. | LYONS, France, January 7 (NANA). | joum to Senglor Borah fo justity the —I have been asked my opinion con-| At this distance it would seem to us cerning the debate which has just taken that Senators Reed and Borah were in o . | contradiction on that point. It is no JiN0p 41 Unim“l Biaies Beinte. My | concern of ours to mix in such a dis- desire is to reply with a certain reserve, | cussion dwelling upon facts completely first because I have seen only extracts unknown to us. But it is certain that from the speeches delivered by the|in itself, despite the vagueness of its honorable Senators, and also because I|text, the oover-Laval communique wish to avoid anything that might ap- | provoked Germany’s clalm, also the ex- pear like an indiscreet mixing into the perts’ report at Basle recommending | | ducted the installation. ‘The new president is a native ot Staunton, Va., and is a member of the ‘Woman's National Democratic Club and the Washington Chamber of Commerce. She is a charter member of the Wash- ington Soroptimist Club. Sir Willmott Lewis, Washington cor- respondent for-the London Times, was the principal speaker. He was_ followed by D. S. Hollenga, business manager of the Alexandria, Va, Chamber of Com- merce. Approximately 150 members - -and guests attended the banquei, many of them prominent ‘in civic activities here. Mrs. Ruby Lee Minar, first president of the Washington Club and of the Amer- ican Federation of Soroptimist Clubs, was toastmistress. TOPICS CLUB MEETS “International Relations” Is Dis- cussed by Riverdale Group. Special Dispatch to The Star. RIVERDALE, Md., January 7—"In- | ternationc! Relations” was the subject of discussion led by Mrs. Edna Reinohl | at a meeting of the Curent Topics Club | at the home of Mrs, W. E. Benne't last evening. | Due to the wide division in opinion regarding jury service for women it was decided that those favoring the bill | thould so advise individually the dele- | gates at Annapolis. Card Party to Be Given. SEAT . PLEASANT, M January 7/ (Speeial) —A card party will be given | January 18 at 8:20 p.m the home of | Mrs. Esther Richardson, on Central ere. under the auspices of the | 1d of St. Matthew’s Episcopal | MISS NORA B. HUFFMAN, Who was insalled last night as presi- Club, {GARDEN SEASON PLANNED < Harris-Ewing Photo. Annual Flowér Show. | Plans for the 1933 eason were for- | mulated by the Petomac Heights Garden | Club at its January mieeting Thurscay night at the residencs of J. P. Hovey, 4903 Potcmac avenue Increase of membership, arrange- ments_for the annual Spring flower show held at the Community Church. | other club activities were smocng the subjects discussed. C. A. Steves, new | president of the club, presided. Death Certificate Lists Coolidge as “Lawyer, Retired” By the Assoctated Press. NORTHAMPTON, January 7.— The death certificate for Calvin Coolifige, filed today with City Clerk James R. Mansfield, certi- fled that the cause of death was “probably coronary thrombosis.” The certificate was signed by Dr. Edward W. Brown, county medical examiner and the Cool- idge family physician. It listed the former President as a “law- yer (retired).” of Mrs. Coolidge The name was given as the “informant.” 'BOSTON POLICE STRIKE CREDITED " WITH CREATION OF A PRESIDENT Fublic Invited to Attend to Hewr Bay State Governor's Swift and Unrelent~ ing Action in Emergency Drew Admiration of the Nation. Discussion on Sonnets at Cor- coran Art Gallery. i 2kespeare Society at 8 pm. at the uditoriun on S research eare Library 1l discuss st d Shakespeare’s sor he direction of readings’ will E. Bryant, Mrs URGES HOOVER APPROVAL | FOR PHILIPPINES BILL Manuel Roxas, Speaker of Insular House, Declares Measure Leaves Choice to Island Voters. e Ass Appealin; roval of t »: P for President Hoover's ap- e Philippine Independ: 111, el Roxas, cpeaker of the in- sular House of Re) tatives, said in an address last night Filipinos would be empowered to de as to their fu- ture status only if the President signs 1%e bill the joint leader of the in- mission Gere said, “GFAnts | ang then came the str sriunity to express them- | selves on this meastre, either through | their Legiclature or a convention called | men turned in th for that purpose. | the | | | d | d Convress Tealized the | peits to their sumer Justice of giving the Filipinos the option | backs on their hoste i ary 7.—Calvin Cool- the estate of a small- intil the Boston police strike in Sep- tember, 1919—then it became a thrill- nt tever might actually part of Mr. Coolidge, W was then Governor, in putting down the Na- on’s most eventful and distressing po- still is a subject of contro- ion. But there are eds of thousands of persons here other sections of the cot ho recall the strike and who attribute s cion to the swift and unre- n who later on’s Chief Executive facts of the police strike, main indelibly burned into memory of every adult Bostonian who witnessed the events. Policemen Organize. recall th® long controversy raged between the then police oner, Edwin U. Curtis, and his isgr cemen, who chafed un- er what they considered ill treatment pect to wages and working condi- and the impasse which resulted when finally ir right to join a labor organization icemen did organizz and then became affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Some of the ringleaders were su: ed as a resuit, b Th howe ike. At 6 o'clock roll call on the night of September 9 more than 1,500 police- eir badges and their Turning their backs on their beats, they left the fate ave been | s try | the policemen asserted | of deciding whether they should accept | of the city in the hands of .a little or rejéct this meacure (independence).|group of officers, consisting, for the dealing as it does with their freedom | most part, of men above the rank of Hoodlums, realizing that practically nothing stood between them end un- bridled license, practically took posses- sion of the city. The little group of loyal officers that remained on duty was powerless to stem the tide. By day- break the following morning there maining unbroken on Washington and Tremont streets, the city’s main retail business arteries. Hold-ups occurred under ¢ lights. Women pedestrians were violated. All the next day business practically was at a standstill. Barbed-wire en- tanglements were erected in front of many of the city's business places. Loyal police officers, singly and in pairs, stood cornered in rileyways, mud-stained and blood-stained, pelted by the mob. Before evening, however. tha clatter of cavalry was heard on Boston's his- toric streets. Mounted men galioped into the squares and side streets and |soon comparative quiet reigned, al- though there were several skirmishes between rioters and the State Guard. Re-elected by Huge Vote. There was no doubt that Gov. Cool- idge’s act in calling out the Guard had had its beneficial effect. Then came the long-drawn-out_aftermath. ingness to return to duty, but Gov. Coolidge vould have none of them. Pub- !lie opinfon flamed against the police strikers and the Governor’s cool atti- tude toward the strikers and toward the mediative’ motions of the American Federation of Labor had unbroken pub- lic_support. ‘The following year Gov. Coolidge was re-elected for a second term under the an “Law and Order,” gaining a plu- rality of 125,000 votes. His vote was the Jargest ever obtained by a guberna- sl dent of the Washington Soroptimist| [Potomac Heights Club Discusses| organization of & query bureau end recly was o store show window re- | At length | the striking police signified their will- | internal discussions of the United States. Having made such reservations, I note that Senator Johnson of California has delivered a severe requisitory against France. I should like to tell him that he seems to misunderstand the real sentiments of the immense majority of my compatriots. Senator Johnson recalls that the United States accepted no war rewards at Versailles, and he is right. He speaks about the sufferings in his own country, would refer to the memorandum sent to Washington by the French government December 1 he would note that we ad- mitted the merits, first, of the debt sei- tlement agreed to by the United States in 1928, There we expressly said: “The Prench government insists that it never entered fts mind to contest the juridicial | validity of the !'which are at the origin of the war debts.” Lausanne Is Cited I told the French Chamber of Depu- ties myself what was the character of the liberty loans. In granting us long- term annuities with interest at 2 per cent the American Government has been able to say it reduced the total amount 50 per cent. I recalled to my compatriots that in adopting this sum- mary formula it could be considered that the United States claimed only $2,000,000,000 lent after the armistice and gave a discharge for the $2,000,000,- 000 lent during the war. It is at least the formula adopted by Prof. Charles Gide of the law faculty of Paris. But I should like the honorable Sen- ator to note that France's request for reparation for disaster and losses caused on its zoil by four years of in- vasion was no less legitimate. When we granted Germany a moratorium, we voluntarily deprived ourselves of revenue of which we have the greatest need. When we Europeans at Lausanne tenths of her debt, we consented—and small countries like Yugoslavia with us —to an immense sacrifice. ‘Why did we make this sacrificz? Be- cause efter all we believe that the pay- without ap equivalent in goods are causes of ruin for the world, and be- cause we feel that all the nations must freely acknowledge this ementary omists. While I still persist in thinking that our payment on December 15 was le- gally due—and I have proved my con- viction—I ask the honorable Senator to be so kind as to ask himself if a general readjustment of all debts is not necessary, in equity as well as in the interest of all, and if France is not en- titled to the same treatment as Ger- many. Interest Payments Grow. On the other hand, I am being in- formed that Senator Johnson referred to the question of American war stocks over here. T should like Senator John- Prof. Gide and William Oualld upon the “Inventory of War for France," published by the Carnegie Foundation. IAx'my left with us enormous quantities | of stocks which it ceded to us for $407. 000,000. Tae doller was then 7.25 francs, thus not very much below pre-war par, and we wrongly hoped for its rise as a consequence of victory. The interest on the debt growing out of this purchase was regularly paid, despite depreciation of the franc, which et first made the yearly payments of interest 145,000,000 francs, later 500,- 000,000 fyancs, and even at one time 000,000,000 francs. But the amicable sale of these stocks was carried out under deplorable con- ditions. Prof. Gide supplies the startling figures. The sale continued during 10 years, totaled, in 1920, 3,224,000,000 | States at maturity amounted to more than 10,000,000,000 francs. Fortunitely, the United States Government included that debt in the total of political debts. But really, the operation in itself has been fruifful neither to the United States nor to France. What struck the French public more forcefully in the debate in the Ameri- can Senate was Senator Borah's dec laration concerning the Hoover-Lavi communique. The honorable chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Commit- tee recalls that on the eve of the open- and again he is right. If Senator Johnsen | various undertakings | conditionally forgave Germany nine- | ments abroad over a period of 60 years | truth, proclaimed by the world's econ- | son to refer to the volume written by | It is somewhat true that the American | francs, while the amount ‘due the United | revision of the intergovernmental debts | and the Lausanne conference which completely liberated Germany from any indebtedness, It is the combination of these facts which created in France the current public opinion against the payment of ‘lhe December 15 installment which I | encountered in the French Chamber of | Deputies. It is exactly what I had an- | ticipated when I pronounced the words | with which Senator Johnson now so | courteously reproaches me. France in all good faith believed that | the 1031 moratorium was the beginning of a new debt regime. On the other hand, what are we be- ing criticized for? Our recent desire to assist Austria? It is a new proof of our willingness to work for the reconstruc- tion of Europe—what the United States itself appears to have wished. Grave Misunderstanding. | Pinally, we are accused of having re- | cently laid down the keel of a new | cruiser. Frence had no other means eventually to resist the redoubtable ac- tion of three new German cruisers of the Deutschland type, which to us seem destined to cut off our communications in times of war. My opinion is such discussions are | useless, even dangerous. A grave mis- | understanding has just occurred be- | tween the United States and France. | For my part, I consider it a veritable misfortune because never, no matter what happens, will 1 forget the admi- rable financial and military collabora- tion of the United States during the terrible war. This misunderstanding must be dis- sipated, and not sggravated, so.far as I am concerned. I desire to work with | all my might to make our compatriots remember in detail what American fraternity was. On the other hand, I should like to acquaint Americans with the French istate of mind, so often deluded, troubled first by the abandonment of | the Dawes plan, later the Young plan. | "1 ‘have told, and am now telling, Frenchmen: “The United States’ claim against us is juridically indisputable. I have defended the December 15 pay- ment and because of that fact I have been returned to my studies and my family. I accept the results philosoph- icall, I desire to tell Americans ‘the war debts regime must be revised.” Such are the observations which I re- spectfully submit to the honorable Senators whose declarations have been transmitted to us.” | (Copyright, 19:73. by North American News- paper Alliance, Inc.) g \DE PRIEST BARES FIGHT FOR HOWARD U. FUND| | Mu-So-Lit Club Hears How $460,000 | | 1 Item Passed House—Lauded by Dr. Johnson. Steps leading to passage by the House of a bill including an appropriation of | $460,000 for erection of a heating plant | at Howard University were outlined by | Representative Oscar De Priest of Illi- | Inois at a meeting of the Mu-So-Lit| Club Friday night | Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson, president of Howard University, lauded DePriest's efforts in securing passage of the bill| and predicted similar success in the Senate for the legislation. Other_speakers at the meeting were Dean Kelly Miller of Howard, John | Hope, president of Morehouse Univer- | sity, Atlanta, Ga.; John W. Davis of | West Virginia Collegiate Institute, Dr. | Ambrose Caliver of the Office of Edu- | cation, Interior Department; Dean Ben- | jamin’ G. Brawley and Dean Numa P. | G. Adams of Howard, George H. Mur- ray and Robert A. Pelham, MRS. FLORA TODD DIES Mother of Gen. Todd of Washing- ton Expires in New Jersey. ‘Word was received here yesterd: f | the death in Morristown, N. J.,, P;l’dloy | of Mrs. Flora Johnson Todd, mother | of Maj. Gen. Henry D. Todd, jr., U. 8. A, retired, of Washington. She was the wife of Prof. Henry D. Todd, and deughter of John Johnson, | | | | | worked hard. | didn't “care much about talking about | —Paris, in the near future, will get a and happiness.” ———t———— l"nixl_ax C. of C. to Meet. FAIRPAX, Va, January 7 (Special). =The January mesting of the Fairfax County Chamber ¢ Commerce will bs patrolman. Almost immediately, the outer aspect jof the city was changed. Street gamins lshnt “craps” literally on the steps of the station houses and were unmo- 'lested. As the evenirg wore on the social uridercurrent in the streets be- torial candidate up to that time. His plurality in his first election as Gover- nor was 1,700 votes. Although before the police strike the |name of Calvin Coolidge seldom was )hnrd beyond the confines of the Com- | monwealth, from then on it was heard held et 8 o'clock Tuesday night in the came stronger—and bolder. At mid- often until time finally saw him move courdy house. rioc Teigned. | nis into the Waite House. ing session of Congress, December, 1931, | celebrated lawyer and last chancellor President Hoover is reported to have|0f Maryland. Mrs. Todd was a niece asked certain Senators “if they were | of Reverdy Johnson, at one time Am- prepared to epprove such an agreement | bassador to Great Britain. She was as had been concluded with M. Laval | for many years a member of St. Johns | concerning revision of the war debts.” | Church here. Certainly Senator Borah does not| Beosides Gen. Todd, she is survived eontend that President Hoover and M. | by one daughter, Miss Mary J. Todd of Laval““hagd reached upon that point Morristown. : Itric plant developing 102,000 kilowatts, HENRY H. GIBBS. HUNTED Bt POLCE Pennsylvania U. Student! Sought After Finding of “Suicide” Notes. Washington and Philadelphia police joined last night in a search for Henry ! Huntington Gibbs, 20-year-old Central High School graduate and son of Henry 1 C. Gibbs of this city, who disappeared from his University of Pennsylvania dormitory Friday night after mailing to his family and school officials letters declaring “my . body never will be found.” ‘The boy’s father, who is connected with the Agriculture Department and lives at 1821 Newton street, and W. Chattin Wetherill, director of student welfare at the university, received the purported suicide notes from young Gibbs yesterday morning. Mr. Gibbs left at once for Philadelphia, but re- turned here last might without any information sas to the cause of his son’s threat to kill himself. “Nothing to Worry Him.” “He was not cepres when he visited us during the Christ- mas holidays,” the father said, * seemed in good spirits when he left to return to college last Tuesday. So far as I know, there was nothing to worry him. Young Gibbs was a studious type, aduated with honors at Central in 930, and had maintained a high scho- lastic average since he entered the ‘Wharton School of Finance at the uni- versity, Mr. Gibbs added. He said the boy was not particularly sociable, but kept to himself most cf the time and It was possible, he sug- gested, he suffered a nervous breakdown as result of overwork in his studies. “In his letter to me Henry wrote, ‘I have committed no ignominious act,’" the father stated. “I have no idea what could have caused him to think of suicide.” Ask Co-operation Here. As Philadelphia police were inclined to believe Gibbs had merely disap- peared, they asked Washington author- ities last night to co-operate with them in the search for the boy. A lockout broadcast over the local police teletype described him as “weight about 135 pounds: 6 feet 3 or 4 inches tall; light brown hair; ruddy complexion and gray eyes.” 4 JOHN HERTZ ‘HAPPY’ OVER RESIGNING JOB “Just Surgeon,” Says Former Chairman of Paramount-Pub- lix Finance Committee. i By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 7.—John Hertz said today he was “happy” he resigned as chairman of the Finance Committee of the Paramount-Publix Corporation. The one-time Chicago police reporter, who amassed millions in control of omnibus and taxicab companies, said he the resignation.” “It’s kind of hard to explain,” he said “There was no friction. You know I came to take the part of a surgeon,” continued the man who was made chairman of the Finance Committee in 1931 after he and the late Willlam Wrigley end other Chicago capitalists bought heavily into the picture com- pany's stock. “The moving picturi&; are out of my line, I guess,” Hertz said. HPrLf sald the “bankers are satisfled and the Paramount 1s satisfl2d” with his financing of the moving picture com- ny. P The operations of Paramount-Publix have been closely watched in financial circles in recent months in view of heavy interest to be met this Spring. About & month ago Hertz announced these payments would be met. “Is your patient well now?” he wasl asked. 2T “well, it certainly is alive and doing well,” he answered. BOARDING HOUSE BOMBED IN MINE WAR SEQUEL ! Building in Springfleld, I, Is Damaged, but Occupants Escape Injury. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, I, January 7.—A bomb exploded last night and damaged a_boarding snd rcoming house here where three men, members of the United Mine Workers' Union, live. No one was injured. Police attributed the blast to the coal miners’ war ‘The place was operated by Mrs. Edna Manus. The front part of the building | was damaged, windows were shattered and a piece of the metal lodged in weather boarding of the building. Po- lice said the bomb had been constructed of gas pive filled with explasive. The three miners Jiving there were employed by the Capitol mine, on the outskirts of Springfield. The mine is | owned by the Peabody Coal Co., op- erators of the Christian County mines, where an uprising among unicn factions occurred this week. —_— POWER DAM FOR PARIS Huge Mountain Project Will Light : French Capital. | CLERMONT-FERRAND, France (#). large part of its electricity from Au- vergue. The La Truyere dam, the largest in Europe, is rapidly approaching comple- tion. Situated high up in the moun- The flat statement that Rear Admiral | Richard E. Byrd “worked for and | earned” the retired officer’'s pay he has | been criticized for accepting was made | E:.urmy by Rear Admiral F. B. Up- im, chief of the Navy Bureau of Nav- | igation. | Upham’s declaration was in a letter to Representative Ludlow, Democrat, ot Indiana, who had forwarded to the | officer a ctonstituent’s query on Byrd's pay status. | “Active duty pay,” was the way Up- | ham identified the money which Sen- ator Robinson. Republican, of Indiana. recently told the Senate, Byrd. “to be sifcere” as chairman of the National| Economy League, should return to the | Government. | Robinson _opposed activities of the | league in advocating annual reductions of $450,000,000 in * expenditures. | Showed Injury to Leg. An examination made in 1916, eight | years after Byrd had entered the Navy, | Upham'’s letter sald, showed a leg in- | jury that incapacitated him for sea duty because he was unable to. stand 4-hour watches on warships, and it was recommended that he be retired. -One of the leg bones, Upham said, had to be “nailed together.” “His retirement was imperative” the Jetier continued. “He was called back immediately to active duty, though on the retired list, so that during these years he was not receiving retired dis- ability pay. He could fly an airplane, though he could not stand watches re- quired by law for an officer not on the retired list.” Admiral Upham said it must be made | clear that the law requires that an of- ficer, to remain on the active list of the Navy, must be able to stand four- hour watches on warships. “This Admiral Byrd could not do,” he repeated. “His services, however, were needed by the Navy and he was requested to serve on active duty. His duties required long hours of work which he could do, but did not require standing watches at sea.” Entitled to $4,500 Yearty. ‘The rear admiral said Byrd is en- titled to receive $4,500 salary per year, minus a deduction of 8'; per cent in ;;;;rdnm:e with the economy act of “From the above it is evident that Rear Admiral Byrd was initially placed | on the retired list of the Navy on ac- count of injuries received in line of duty,” the letter concluded. “He was requested immediately to come back on active duty, and had 23 years’ service on active duty status. Though not on the active list, his status was the same as that of any other naval aviator— that of obeying whatever orders he was given by the Navy Department. His pay, therefore, was active duty pay and not disability pay. He worked for and earned his pay. | SENATE GROUP TO STUDY |5 TAXPAYERS’ LOAN PLAN Norbeck Names Members for Hear- | ings on Proposed Aid to Owners of Mortgaged Property. By the Associated Press. Chairmen Norbeck appointed a sub- | committee of the Senate Banking Com- | mittee yesterday to open hearings im- mediately on the Harrison bill to per- | mit the Reconstruction Finance Corpo- ration to make loans for payment of taxes on mortgaged property. The subcommittee is composed of Senators Steiwer, Oregon; Walcott, Con- necticut, and Carey, Wyoming, Repub- licans, and Barkley, Kentucky, and Hull, Tennessee, Democrats. The corporation would b2 empowered under the bill to make loans to any in- dividual whose home or farm property is covered by a mortgage and who is unable to obtain funds with which to pay the taxes on it. The mortgagee would be required to agree not to fore- close for a period of two years. RITES FOR MRS. LEWIS Montgomery County Woman to Rest in Arlington Cemetery. Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Lynch Lewis, 89, who died in Montgomery County, Md., Thursday, will be held at Christ Episcopal Church. Kensing- ton, Md., tomorrow at 10:30 am.| Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery beside her husband, who diad | in 1906. Mrs. Lewis was the daughter of Wil- | liam Lynch and Rebecca Weir Lynch of Hayesville, Pa. She is survived by | four children, Mrs. Grace Lewis Ryan of Kensington, with whom she lived: Mrs. Owen H. Fowler of Detroit, Gren- | ville Lewis, 2d, of Lecnardtown, Md.,“ and Benjamin A. Lewis of Los Ax_xgcles. | LECTURES TOMORROW Los Angeles Man to Give Free Talk | at Christian Science Church. Free lectures on OChristian Science will b2 delivered by John Ellis Sedman of Los Angeles, Calif, in the First Church of Christ, Sclentist, Columbia road and Euclid street, tomorrow night | at 8 o'clock, and at the National Thea- | ter Tuesday at 12:10 pm. Mr. Sedman, who is a member of the | board of lectureship of the Mother | Church, the First Church of Christ Scientist, in Boston, Mass, will take for his subject for both lectures: | “Christian Science: The Science of In- | destructible Good.” | The lactures are under auspices of | the First Church of Christ Scientist. Farm poultry records kept in Ten- nessee indicated that 76 per cent of the inceme from poultry was from egg sales, | | | | The terms of Hearings on the La Follette-Costigan bill to distribute $500,000,000 among the States in outright grants for help- ing the jobless resolved yesterday into a series of sharply worded criticisms of unemployment relief through the Re- construction Finance Corporation. “The present relief act is very inade- quate,” said Miss Edith Abbott, dean of the School of Social Service at the University of Chicago and a member,, of the Relief Committee in that city. Pointing out that Illinois already had borrowed $32,000,000 from the cor- poration and that no State may borrow more than $45,000,000 under the law, she said it is estimated the State in 1933 will need $72,000.000. She added that if the relief admin- istered is to include payments of rents of the destitute “and if things con- tinue,” the sum needed wil run to $100,600.000. Building Interests Hit. Paul V. Betters, exetutive director of the American Municipal Assoctation of Chicago, asserted highway build- ing interests had brought pressure to bear upon State governments to pre- vent applications for relief lcans. He said he knew of three States, which he did not name, in which “road interests” have “descended upon the Governor” to induce him not to seek a loan. He added that this was done because such loans are to be re- paid out of future Federal aid high- way funds, and the road builders feared there would be less highway construc- tion if the loans were granted. Contending the present law forces & State to take a “pauper’s oath” before it can apply, he said this has kept several from seeking loans, notably the “conservative New England States.” “The plight of cities in Massachu- setts,” he said, “is very sericus, -es- | pecially Boston. The same is true of Connecticut.” Appears at Own Request. Herbert Benjamin, New York, rep- resenting the Unemployed Councils, ap- peared at his own request, “I protest against the fact that Con- gress, although in session 30 days, has made no more than a gesture, toward steps to provide relief for the unem= ployed,” he said. Benjamin, who has been a leader in unemployment dem- onstrations at Washington, read numer- ous accounts of tragic results of un- employment. N Among the witnesses were Simeon E. Leland, professor of public finance at the University of Chicago, and I. M. Robinow, Cincinnati, a member of the ©Ohio Commission on Unempioyment Insurance. . The Reconstruction Corporation meanwhile announced loans totaling $2,207,900 to - Oregon, Washingion, North Dakota, South Oarolina, Nevada and Tennessee. This brought the total of relief loans to date to .$143,650,000. he corporation was given a total-of $300,000,000 for such purposes. o' il i CATHOLIC FORUM SERIES TO ENTER SECOND WEEK Dr. Gecrge Johnson Will Talk on “Chtirch and Schools” at 8 P.M. Tomorrow. Dr. George, Johnson of Catholic. Unis versity will open the second series of weekly discourses conducted by . the Catholic Information Forum with & talk on “The Church and the Schools,” tomorrow night, at St. Gabriel's Church at 8 o'clock. The first series grran, by the forum, under auspices of the. Knights of Columbus, closed just before the Christmas holidays, Later subjects of the meetings, will be “The Church and Science,” by Rev. George Strohaver of Georgetown Unis versity, Januaty 16; “The Church and State,” by Rev. John K. Cartwright of St. Patrick's Church, on.January, 23; “Purgatory and Indulgenc by Rev, Felix Kirsch, on January 30, and “Illus- trated Lecture on the Mass,” presented by Rev. Joseph M. Nelligan of St. Gabriel's Church on February. 6. . RETIRED OFFICER DEAD Lieut. Col. Charles Byrne; U. 8. A., Was 77 Years Old. CINCINNATT, January 7 (#).—Lieut. Col. Charles Byrne, U. 8. A, retired, was found dezd in hjs room in-a Hotel here yesterday. ' He was 77. He retired from the Army in 1908 after seeing service in the Indian and Spanish-American Wars. e won & Silver Star citetion for bravery during his_campaigns. FREE LECTURE —ON— CHRISTIAN SCIENCE e John Ellis Sedman, C. S. of Los'Angeles, Calif. Member of the Board of Lecture~ ship of The Mother Church, The First Church of - Chriet Seientist, in, Boston, Massachusetts. In First Church of Christ Scientist Columbia Rd. and Euclid St. N.W. Monday, January 9, at 8 P.M. 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