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‘MAINE DELEGATION
PARTIAL TO HOOVER
Congressmen Favor Secre
tary for President if Cool
idge Is Kot Available.
m O. AiOl'LD LINCOLN.
The Hoover-for-Preeident movement
«n Xnw England took on added
strength today. The Maine delegation
Hi Congress, It became known, includ
ing Senators lla'e and Could, is united
in support of the nomination of the
Secretary of Commerce, if President
Coolidge is not available.
A poll of the entire Maine delega
tion, all Republicans, showed the dele
gation to l>e united in its loyalty to
! President Coolidge. But the poll
' showed also that, in the event the
■ president is not available for renomi
' nation, the members of the delega
tion are equally united in favor ox the
nomination of l«r. iloover.
- Gov. Ralph O. Brewster of Maine,
. nho was in Washington today, al
‘ready has declared himself as strongly
; ; i n favor of the nomination of Mr.
Hoover.
Attitude Seems Fixed.
Unless something now unforseen ar
rives, it appears almost certaiti that
the Maine delegation to the Repub
lican national convention next June
will support Mr. Hoover.
Members of the delegation made it
clear today, however, that their tiist
choice for President is still Calvin
Coolidge. Some of them are unwill
ing to admit there is no chance of
renominating the President, notwith
standing his recent statement to the
Republican national committee.
The Hoover strength in other New
England States is mounting, accord
ing to all reports. The New Hamp
shire delegation, whether instructed or
uninstructed, will be for Mr. Hoover.
There are two schools of thought
there, one headed by Senator Moses,
which believes the delegation should
go uninstructed, but friendly to Hoov
er, and another, headed by former
Gov. Winant, which wants an in
atructed delegation.
In Vermont, the President’s native
State, the feeling for Mr. Hoover has
been strong, provided, of course, the
President entirely out of the ’run
ning. Recently there has been a whis
pering campaign directed against Mr.
Hoover in Vermont, however, pictur
ing the Secretary as pro-British. This
has not helped his candidacy. Vice
President Dawes, regarded as a po
tential candidate for the nomination,
is looked upon favorably by many
members of the American Legion in,
Vermont, and the legion has no little
political influence in the State.
Hughes Had Following.
Some of the rock-ribbed Republican
-Vermonters are shaking their heads,
too, over the Stand which Mr. Hoover
is said to have taken during the war
with President Wilson, in urging the
election of a Democratic Congress in
3918. On the whole, Mr. Hoover is
looked upon in Vermont as the man
most liklev to continue the admini
stration of the Government along
lines similiar to those of the Coolidge
administration.
Before Charles Evans Hughes of
New' York, former Secretary of State,
took himself out of the race for the
presidential nomination, there was
reason to believe that the delegation
to the national Republican conven
tion from the other three new Eng
land States, Massachusetts Connecti
cut and Rhode Island, would favor
Mr. Hughes, provided again, of course.
President Coolidge himself was not
available.
But even before Mr. Hughes’ recent
statement declaring himself not a
candidate, there was no little Hoover
sentiment In these States. Since the
Hughes statement, the drift towards
Mr. Hoover appears to have been pro
nounced.
At least three New Englanders have
been mentioned as actual nominees
for Vice President in the event of
the nomination of Mr. Hoover. They
are Representative Tilson of Connec
ticut, majority leader of the House:
Senator Alosee* of New Hampshire,
President pro tempore of the Senate,
and Gov. Fuller of Massachusetts.
None of them Is an avowed candidate
for the vice presidency.
Geographical Feature.
Geographically, however, any one
pf them would be available for the
vice presidential nomination should
Mr. Hoover of California head the
Republican ticket next year.
STIMSON CHOICE HAILED.
Senators Congratulate
President in Appointment.
President Coolidge today was con
gratulated by Senators Quezon and
Osmena of the Philippines for his se
lection of Col. Henry L. Stimson to
succeed the late Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood as governor general of the
islands. The Philippine legislators as
sured the President that Col. Stimson
would have their fullest support and
co-operation, and they told him also
that they felt very sure that Mr.
Stlmson’s appointment will do much
in the way of advancing the economic
interests of the islands.
Senators Quezon and Osmena, w-ho
have been in this country for more
than six weeks, principally for -the
purpose of discussing insular affairs,
informed the President that they will
pail for home early in January.
HELD IN WATCH THEFT.
George Kline, under $5,000 bond for
appearance before the grand Jury on
t. charge of forgery preferred last
week, appeared before Judge Robert
E. Mattingly in Police Court today in
connection with the alleged theft of a
watch, valued at slls, from Schmedtie
Bros. Co., Jewelers of 1217 G street,
November 28. He was held under $2,-
000 additional bond for the action of
the grand jury.
Kline is almost totally deaf and was
compelled to read the lips of witnesses
who testified against him.
He is alleged to have stolen the
watch while pretending to examine it
with the purported intention of buying
it. The watch was recovered from a
Baltimore pawn shop and the ticket
found in Kline’s room at a local hotel.
Shop Early
December 16
9 Days to
Christmas
Buy Christmas Seals—
Protect Your Home
f ' From Tuberculoeie
THE EVENING STAR CELEBRATES
ITS 75TH ANNIVERSARY TODAY
i Progress and Patronage of Paper Keep Step
With the Steady Growth of
Nation s Capital.
Tlh> history of a newspaper is a his
tory of the times. From day to day
and year to year, its pages catch and
• hold in printer’s ink a fleeting picture
of what each rising sun has brought
| and each one. setting, taken away.
! The star is 75 years old today. B* 1 - ;
tween the hound covers of its files,
I some of the pages yellow now and brit- ',
j tie with age. lies the story of its
! growth, a story written by the men
i md women of Washington.
Many of them have told their tale
i and gone away, leaving it for their
children and their children’s children
to take up and carry along. It is a
long story, of which The Star is
proud. It cannot be retold as it has
been told. But a seventy-fifth birth
day anniversary is one which lends it
self to retrospection, as brief as it
may be.
Started In 1852.
Seventy-flve years ago today, De
cember ill, 1852, there issued from a
one man press, housed in a building
on Sixth street between Pennsylvania :
and Louisiana avenues, a newspaper
I which carried on its first page the j
j title, or "great head,’’ of Daily Eve- i
i ning Star. It contained four pages j
! and there were five columns to a j
I page. The page forms measured lti' 4 i
|by 11 inches, and at its masthead !
was tacked a "salutation” to the j
40.000 people of Washington explain- j
ing that "Today the 'Daily Evening
Star’ appears on the horizon of the
newspaper world, and greets, with
warm and kindly beam, a metropoli
tan public. * * * Whether it shall lie
a fixed or a wandering ‘Star’ depends
upon the patronage which it will at
tract. • •
The Daily Evening Star, which .5
years ago this afternoon was strug
gling for a foothold on the slippery
grade which has sent some 900 jour- |
nalistic enterprises in Washington to j
the bottom and oblivion, had good j
reason to plead for the patronage ;
upon which its position in the firma- ;
merit would depend. That it has re- j
reived this patronage is indicated in ,
the fact that today it is observing its
seventy-fifth anniversary and that its |
fixture as a Washington institution is
as secure as the Police Department,
for instance, which was born only a
few months before The Star.
Patronage Increases.
Something of what this patronage,
growing as The Star has grown, has
meant to the paper may be indicated
briefly by some interesting compari
sons between The Star of today, De
' cember 16, 1927. and that first Star j
of December 16, 1852. The type for j
the first Star was set by hand. There j
were five compositors and two ap- j
prentices in the composing room, at
Eighth and D streets. It is interest
ing to note, in this respect, that the
grandson of one of the five original
compositors, who served as foreman
for a number of years and was suc
ceeded in that position by his son. to,
day holds a position of trust and re
sponsibility in the present composing
room, and that w’hen The Star ob
served its fiftieth anniversary 25 years
ago, one of the original compositors
was still on the pay roll of the news
paper.
The type was set at Eighth and
D, aid the forma carried to the
pressroom between Louisiana and
Penr,lylvania avenues on Sixth ntreet,
sevclWl blocks away. There the paper
was printed on a press operated by
one fhan and capable, at high speed,
of turning out 350 copies an hour.
The first edition of The Star was
1,000 copies. In addition to tha com
posing room and press room crew-,
there was the editor and proprietor,
Capt. Joseph B. Tate; an editorial
writer, Rev. Charles W. Dennison; an
editorial and poetical contributor,
Frank I’cNerhany, and one reporter,
W. W. Tucker. Their Star contained,
as mentioned above, four small pages,
on which were printed 3,120 lines of
type.
62 Pages Today.
Your Star today contains 62 pages,
which represent no special edition, but
portrays the day’s demands in news
and advertising. In place of the 12
men whose combined efforts produced
that Star of 75 years ago. 1,356 per
sons labored in Washington today to
produce and deliver The Star at your
door this evening. The 3,120 lines of
type contained in that Star of 75 years
igo have grown to 144,160 lines of type
in your Star today, of which 112,728
lines portray advertising by the mer
chants of Washington and elsewhere,
and 31,432 lines carry the news of
Washington and of the world.
The five men and two boys
who set the type for that first
paper have been replaced by 187, who
are regularly employed in The Star
i composing room today, and they
! turn out their daily product of type
| from 43 linotype machines, any one
!of which could have set in 14 hours
I what must have required that first
1 j composing room crew something over
|l6 hours to set. If today’s com
' .posing room crew were turned loose
lon the matter which went into that
| i first Star, it could put it in type in an
hour—yet the composing room today
at The Star must run almost 24 hours
a day to set the type which goes into
the paper these days.
In the place of that one reporter,
who covered the news of Washington
| for the first Star. 31 members of The
* Star staff were getting news out of
1 Washington for your Star today, and
j 13 others supervising their work and
editing their copy. But in every ham
let, village, town and city of the
United States, and Scattered in every
corner of the globe, other men. thou
sands of them, were combing the
earth for news and sending it over
the wires of the Associated Press and
other famous news services to go into
the columns of your Star today.
37 Men in Press Room.
In place of that one man who inked
his rollers and his forms by hand and
by the strength of his good right arm
turned out the 1,060 printed copies of
that first Star, 37 men are working
in the press room of The Star today,
climbing and darting like agile sailors
over the four big octuple presses, the
average running speed of each being
about 28,200 pnpers an hour. It re
quired about eight ounces of ink to
print that first Star. Today’s Star
required some 1,700 pounds of ink.
The paper that went into the first
1,000 copies of The Star must have
weighed about 32 pounds. The paper
required to print your Star today
weighed about 101,184 pounds, or
50.59 tons.
The first Stars were sold over a
counter in a small building on the
south side of Pennsylvania avenue
near Sixth street. Today, 10 minutes
after the presses were started on the
first edition of The Star, big bundles
of them were on their way to Union
Station for distribution throughout
the United States, and when the sun
goes down this evening, some 102,000
Stars will have been printed and cir
culated—64,l46 to be placed in as
many homes by regular carriers of
The Star in Washington and within
a radius of 25 miles of Washington.
This evening, The Star is being read
by from one to five persons in 90
per cent of the homes of Washington
and in an area of 25 miles in Virginia
and Maryland surrounding Washing
ton.
Oldest Employe Dies.
Two years ago, George Johnson
died. He was the oldest employe
then of The Star. He had been with
the paper, almost from the first, and he
could remember having carried the
THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, T>. C., FRIDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1927.
first Stars to the business office on
his back, and later as the bundles
grew larger, wheeled the entire edi
tion in a wheelbarrow. Today The
Star is being distributed by a fleet
of 53 Star trucks, and most of them
make many trips, returning from then
first load for more papers as the later
editions come off the presses.
These, and many other comparisons
which go unnoted here, might be cited
as interesting points of contrast l>e
tween that first Star of 75 years ago
and The Star you are reading this
evening. But the growth of The Star,
its modern and labor-saving equip
ment, Its present home —all these are
but mere symbols, as it were, of the
growth of Washington and the prog
ress of mankind in the past 75 years.
No review of such progress is con
templated in this short glance back
over the years that have rolled over
the hill since the first Star was print
ed. But the few facts which follow
tell something of the origin and
growth of The Star.
Founded by Prlnfer.
I The Star was founded by Joseph B.
, Tate, a printer with aspirations to |
own and edit his own newspaper. Mr.
| Tate had previously been associated
! with three other men in the founding
j of the American Telegraph, a political
j organ created to help Gen. Winfield
' Scott in his presidential campaign.
When Gen. Scott was defeated the
Telegraph went out of existence.
Mr. Tate's founding of The Star
was a courageous enterprise in itself,
for not only were papers being
horn and dying almost every day
in the Capital of those days, but
two previous attempts to found a
Star had resulted in failure —the Co
lumbian Star In 1852 and The Wash
ington Star in 1841. Mr. Tate knew
his Washington and he thought that
a neutral paper, which would take an
interest in the development of the
city, keep its skirts clean, refuse to be
entangled with political parties and
report the news fairly and decently
would succeed. It did.
But he was proprietor of the paper j
for less than a year. In July, 1853,
W. I>. Wallach and W. H. Hope
bought it from him, and Capt. Tate
retired to the cashier's cage, coniinu
ing as cashier of the paper until his
death five years later. Until May 1,
1853. The Star was put in type in a j
small office at Eighth and J) streets
and another office on Sixth street be
tween Pennsylvania avenue and Mis
souri avenue. A few doors away from
the latter address the paper was
printed by Buell & Blanchard, print
| ers. But in May. 1853, the offices of
| The Star were moved to the south side
j of D street, between Twelfth and Thir
j teentli, adjacent to where the fire house
now stands. Here editorial, mechanical
and business branches of the paper
for the first time were assembled
under one roof. When Mr. Wallach
and Mr. Hope bought the paper they
enlarged its pages, but kept them to
four. In 1855 Mr. Hope sold his in
terest in the paper to Mr. Wallach.
and in 1867 Mr. Wallach sold it to
Crosby S. Noyes, Samuel H. Kauff
mann, George W. Adams, Alexander
R. Shepherd and Clarence B. Baker,
who conducted the newspa ier under
the firm name of Noyes, Baker & Co.,
later availing themselves of a charter
by Congress, incorporating The Eve
ning Star Newspaper Co., which pub
lishes the paper today.
Two Owners Sell Out.
In 1869 Mr. Baker sold his shares
in the paper and they were equally
divided among the four remaining pro
prietors, and in 1*74 Mr. Shepherd
sold his stock, which was bought
outright by the three associate own
ers, Messrs. Noyes, KaufTmann and
Adams. In June, 1881, The Star
bought and remodeled a building
which stood at the corner of Pennsyl
vania avenue and Eleventh street,
and another adjoining structure
fronting on Eleventh street. The
building was commodious for those
days, and all of the equipment and
furniture was new.
Seven years later The Star ob
served its twenty-first anniversary
under the new management by ap
pearing in eight-page form. And one
year later, due to growth in the busi
ness and increased size of the paper,
work was begun on The Star annex.
During this time The Star had
bought what were then the fastest
printing presses made, replacing
them- as new inventions and improve
ments were made. In 1893 a battery
of four double-deck Potter machines
were bought and installed, and in the
same year hand-set type began to
give way before the latest invention,
the Mergenthaler linotype. Fourteen
of these machines were installed in
1893 The Star was one of the first
papers in the country to change from
hand-set to machine-set type.
Paper Held by Families.
The Star had bought in 1891 prop
erty at 1103 Pennsylvania avenue and
in 1895 the property just west of it.
In 1899 work was begun on the
new building at Eleventh and Penn
sylvania avenue, which is a part of
The Star Building today. The new
building was occupied July 1, 1900.
George W. Adams died in 1886; Crosby
S, Noyes died in 1908, and Samuel H.
Kauffmann died in 1906. The owner
ship of the paper passed on to their
descendants and to the Adams estate,
in whose hands it now rests.
In January, 1920, additional land
had been bought north on Eleventh
street and work was begun on a new
10-story annex to be completed and
occupied the year following. The
new building had been necessitated
by the constant growth of the paper,
and as the demands became apparent
new equipment was added to meet
them. There had been The Sunday
Star, for instance, which was estab
lished in 1905, and the size of the
daily papers had grown to 30, 40 and
even 50 pages.
In 1918 the rotogravure section was
added as a feature of The Sunday Star.
December 14, 1923, The Star estab
lished what was then a world's record
In printing, in the regular course of
business, and without special effort or
solicitation, a 70-page newspaper.
Never before in the United States, or
the world, had a regular issue of a
daily newspaper exceeded 64 pages.
Three years later The Star broke Its
own record, and set n now one. when
it issued a daily edition, under similar
circumstances, containing 78 pages.
These records, nnd the day*by-day
production of the newspaper, are mat
ters of pride at The Star—a pride that
does not spring alone from the me
chanical and journalistic endeavor in
volved, but because The Star is a re
flection of the prosperity and the con
fidence of Washingtonians today.
Without them it is felt that The Star
would not be observing on this day,
December 16, 1927, its seventy-fifth an
niversary. *
CALL ON SIMMONS.
Commissioners Pay Respects * to
D. C. Subcommittee Chief.
The District Commissioners inter
rupted their semi-weekly board meet
ing today to go to the Capitol to pay
a courtesy call on Representative Sim
mons of Nebraska, newly-appointed
chairman of the District subcommittee
on appropriations of the Houße ap
propriations committee.
Following Mr. Simmons’ appoint
ment aB chairman of the subcommit
tee. thi Commissioners made a special
trip to the Capitol to visit him. but
i he could not be located at that time.
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GOVERNMENT WINS
CONTEMPT POINT
Prosecutor Succeeds in Hav
ing Conversation With Kid
well Barred by Court.
The Government .Jvon a highly Im
portant point today in the Sinclair-
Burn* contempt proceedings, when .Jus
tice Frederick L. Siddons barred testi
ninny sought by the defense f.T.vr.
Frank J. O'Reilly, one of the Burns de
tectives engaged in surveillance of the
Teapot Dome jurors, relative to con
versations he had with the mother and
father of Juror Edward J. Kidwell, jr.
Defense counsel had resorted to prac
tically a full day of argument yester
day in efforts to put the conversation
into the record.
Nerves that were kept continuously
jumping undpr suspense during the
protracted period of the contempt pro
ceedings, found temporary relief at
noon when O’Reilly stepped from the
witness stand after two and a half
days of grueling examination.
Another Verbal Clash.
The end of the ordeal did not come,
however, nntil after defense counsel
and James J. O'Leary, the persever
' ing Government prosecutor, had en
gaged in a final verbal clash.
Before O'Bielly was excused for the
time being at least, prosecutor O’Leary
had appealed to the court at one time
during an argument by the defense
to “put an end to this nonsense."
George P. Hoover of counsel for
Harry F. Sinclair jumped to his feet,
! his face flushing angrily. He protest
ed to the court against some such
language.
“I won’t tolerate it," Mr. Hoover
declared.
“I appeal to the court to have Mr.
O’Leary stop making such remarks.”
The controversy subsided as quick
ly as It arose. Shortly thereafter
O'Leary said he was through with
his redirect examination of the wit
ness. hut requested that the witness
remain within calling of the court as
further testimony from him was de
sired.
During his testimony this morning
O'Reilly denied emphatically that he
had ever “shadowed” Juror Kidwell,
his father or iy* mother. The Burns
detective also disclosed that not one of
the operatives had ever reported hav
ing been "burnt up," the term applied
when a subject realizes he is being
| shadowed.
Query Draws Sharp Reply.
O'Leary drew another sharp denial
from the witness when he asked
O'Reilly about a statement said to
have been made hy Charles G. Ruddy,
chief of the Burns operations here, on
October 19. The Government prose
cutor asked whether Ruddy had told
him that if any of the operatives’
identities were discovered, “for God’s
sake don’t disclose who they are.”
The question elicited from O’Reilly a
sweeping and indignant denial.
The next witness called was Barton
Stewart, operative S-71, who told about
motoring to Washington with two
other Burns men to report for duty in
connection with the jury surveillance.
He was accompanied on this trip by
William J. McMullin. “alais Long,”
and a man named Belmont, the latter
having taken the next train back to
Philadelphia.
When O’Reilly concluded testifying
It was a signal for Mr. Oleary to drop
temporarily out of the case. Examina
tion of witnesses then was taken up
by another for the Government by
United States Attorney Peyton G. Gor
don.
Conversations Barred.
Testimony bearing on conversations
between O’Reilly and the mother and
lather of Juror Edward J. Kidwell.
was barred by Justice Siddons after
the sessions were resumed this morn
ing.
The court’s ruling came as a clean
cut victory for the relentless Govern
ment prosecutor, who had held his
ground throughout a bitter legal ar
gument that started early yesterday
and still continued when court had
adjourned for the day.
O'Leary contended throughout the
argument that the rule of evidence
which prevented the introduction of
new matter in cross-examination held
good in this instance.
Testimony Slipped in.
Justice Siddons in his ruling pointed
out that if anything was cleur in the
record it was the fact that the pros
ecutor had gone to great lengths in
cautioning the witness not to mention
a word of the conversation that took
place between him and Kidwell. De
spite this warning, the judge pointed
out. the witness introduced voluntarily
a fragment of the conversation rela
tive to the fact that Kidwell’s father
had a barber shop in the Myrtle Hotel.
This fragment of conversation,
which was slipped into the record, was
used by defense counsel in contention
that they were entirely within the
scope of cross-examination and ques
tioning the witness about what was
said at the time.
Justice Siddons held that since the
fragment of conversation was put
into the answer madj by the witness
without being asked to do so, he felt
it his duty to hold that this paricular
matter was beyond the scope of cross
examinatioh by the defense.
Passes Over Defense Charges.
Arraigned yesterday by defense
counsel on charges of browbeating
witnesses and seeking to deceive the
j court suppressing evidence, O’Leary
1 only referred to these charges casual
| ly in his closing argument this morn
ing. He told the court that he was
not seeking to close the mouth of the
witness and added that the defense
could call O’Reilly as their own wit
nes when the time comes, a point
which the court re iterated in making
known its ruling of the question.
"There has been much mouthing,
bickering, tweedle-de-duin and tweedle
de-dee about the sacred rights of the
‘respondents in this case,” O’Leary told
the court, but reminded it that the
public had some rights, too. He ex
plained that he had sat silent through
a lot of “hokum and bunkum” Involv
ing charges against the District At
torney’s office because he did not
think it worthwhile to make any
answer.
Justice Siddons" ruling today ended
; the longest and the bitterest clash
betwoen counsel that has ensued since
the opening of the contempt trial.
Scarcely half an hour was devoted
yesterday to the taking of testimony,
the remainder of the time being de
voted solely to legal argument.
Suppression Charged.
The defense contended that it was
more concerned with the effect of
the Government’s “suppression of evi
dence” and treatment of witnesses in
its direct examination than it was
with the blocking of testimony re
warding conversation which took
place between the detective and Juror
Kidwell’s parents. The sole object of
the respondents in cross-examining
the witness regarding this conversa
tion, the defense contended, was to
shed light on a matter which the
Government evidently was seeking to
suppress in order to create a wrong
impression on the court.
Cross examination being resumed
by Charles A. Douglass, attorney for
William J. Burns, the witness was
asked regarding his activities on the
day that he went to Juror Kidwell’s
home. O’Reilly had testified that he
had done so on instructions from
Charles G. Ruddy, his chief, but in
sisted emphatically that he was not
asked to see Juror Kidwell.
Douglass cautioned the witness
RETIREMENT ACTS
TO BE CONSIDERED
House Group Promises Thor
ough Study of Civil Serv
ice Measures.
Thorough reconsideration of all
phases of civil service retirement leg
islation is promised at this session by
the House civil service committee,
which is now assembling the numer
ous legislative proposals for liberal
izing the retirement law. Hearings
will not. be started, however, until
after the Christmas recess because
the committee'is moving its quarters
to a room on the second tloor of the
old library space in the Capitol.
Very material liberalization of the
present retirement law is provided for
In the bill introduced in the House to
day by Representative Gibson of Ver
mont, a member of the civil service
committee, who explained that this
measure is introduced at the request
of a group of postal employes.
The Gibson bill calls for optional re
tirement of civil service employes aft
er 30 years’ service if the employe has
reached the age of 55 years. The re
tirement annuity would be equal to
two-thirds of the average salary dur
ing the last five years of service, with
a maximum of 51,200. The contribu
tion of the employe to the retirement
fund would he increased to .I 1 ? per
cent of their salaries up to $2,100.
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DR. SIZOO PREACHES
AT NOON SERVICES
Describes Scene of Christ's Birth
From First-Hand Informa
tion From Tour.
“Look for Christ not in palaces hut
in poor, humble surroundings.” Dr.
Joseph R. Sizoo, pastor of the New
York Avenue I’resbyterlan Church,
said in his address at the Christmas
services held under the auspices of
the Federation of Women’s Clubs, at
Keith’s Theater at noon today.
Dr. Sizoo related the story of thf
t:irth of Christ and described the town
of Bethlehem and other places in the
Holy Land, which he ,- isited last
Summer.
Mrs. G. L. Peckham, member of the
Bible committee of the federation,
presided. Special music was furnished
by the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church Quartet. Dr. George Fiske
Dudley, pastor of St. Stephen’s Epis
copal Church, offered prayers. Con
gregational singing was led by Percy
Foster.
“The spirit of Jesus Christ, that
has been knocking at the door
throughout the year, finds the door
wide open at Christmas time,” Rev.
Moses R. Lovell, pastor of the Mount
Pleasant Congregational Church, said
in his address at the Christmas serv
ice yesterday.
“Christmas is a break in the
routine of the year’s work which
gives men an opportunity to love one
.another,” he stated.
The annual Children’s day service
will he held tomorrow. Mrs. Charles
Wood will present a Christmas story
with illustrative pictures. Children's
Christmas carols will be sung. Prayer
will be said hy Rev. Mark Depp,
pastor of Calvary M. E. Church. Mrs.
Howard Hodgkins will preside.
VALUE SET AT $3,000,000.
Application Made for Administer
ing Alonzo 0. Bliss’ Estate.
A. S. McGregor of Jefferson County,
Ala,, who claims to be the largest
creditor of Alonzo O. Bliss, who died
In Miami, Fla., last March, today
asked the District Supreme Court to
appoint him as administrator of the
estate, which he avers is worth in
excess of $3,000,000. McGregor says
he holds $27,000 of the notes of the
Bliss properties bearing the indorse
ment of Mr. Bliss. More than six
months has elapsed since the death
of Mr. Bliss, who left no will, and no
steps have been taken hy any of his
heirs toward administration in the
District of Columbia. As the largest
creditor, the petitioner says, he is
entitled to letters of administration,
that the assets may be marshaled
and applied to the Indebtedness. He
is represented by Attorney George D.
Brabson.
about not repeating anything said dur
ing the conversation with the Juror's
parents.
Government Upheld.
Government counsel objected when
Douglas asked the witness if, on the
day he visited the Kidwell home, he
had made inquiries of any one about
Juror Kidwell. It looked for a while
like the attorneys would settle down
to another protracted argument, but
Justice Siddons finally ended it by
upholding the Government’s objec
tion.
O’Rielly testified under the con
tinued cross-examination that at no
time did he ever shadow Juror Kid
well or members of his family.
“What were your instructions to do
about the Barber Kidwell?” Douglas
asked him.
O’Rielly replied that Ruddy had
merely asked him to see the juror’s
father so as to establish his ldentlfi
cation.
The witness was next asked about
the shadowing of Horace R. Lamb,
the special assistant to the Attorney
General, about whom counsel for Al
bert B. Fall, co-defendant in the Tea
pot Dome case, had sought informa
tion.
O’Reilly testified that he was able
to identify Lamb through the descrip
tion given him by William V. Long, as
William J. McMullen, the Government
“spy” was known to the Burns de
tectives.
Lamb Identified.
“Long told me that I could recog
nize Mr. Lamb because he threw his
feet sideways," the witness testified.
He was questioned regarding previous
testimony relative to establishing the
ownership of the car seen trolling
Juror Norman L. Glasscock. O’Reilly
shed no further light on this matter.
Defense counsel then ascertained
from the witness what instructions
Sherman Burns had given him when
he was detailed to the Washington job.
These instructions, O’Reilly stated,
were that no juror should be ap
proached and no contact formed, and
that he waa to give such instructions
to Ruddy. Any detective violating
these instructions, O’Reilly stated, was
to be returned immediately to New
York.
O’Reilly told the court he was not
present when Ruddy gave the instruc
tions to the men. He added that when
he himself had broached the subject
to the men. they informed him that
Ruddy already had given them the
instructions, which were being carried
out to the Jetter*
“What did Burns or Ruddy tell the
men to do if any of the jurors cus
pected they were being shadowed?’’ he
was asked.
“To report at once to Ruddy,” the
witness replied.
O'Reilly declared he had never met
William J. Burns until November 7,
when the retired head of the detective
agency came to Washington in answer
to the Government’s subpoena during
the grand jury investigation.
V
SCOTTISH BISHOP HAS NO FEAR .
OF MEETING CHICAGO'S MAYOR
Agrees With Thompson on
Some Eighteenth Cen
tury History.
Companionate Marriage Is
Declared Merely Passing
Idea in America.
— I
Right Rev. Frederic L. Doan o , Lord
Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, Scot
land. is going to visit Chicago, lust of I
a score of cities in this country, but I
that is not because he is afraid of I
• Big Bill" Thompson.
“Mayor Thompson and 1.” says ’he I
bishop, “will not quarrel over eigh- I
teenth century history. In Scotland I
we had our own quarrels with George I
111, and we were in sympathy with '
the American Revolution. It is
absurd to lay the blame for the stupid
policy of George 1H either on Eng
land or on Scotland."
However. Bishop Deane said, the
campaign of Mayor Thompson is ac
cepted in the British Isles "with the
utmost good humor." But, no matter
how well the Scottish bishop and the
Chicago mayor agree on the subject
of the Hanover kings, the bishop will ;
hear no word spoken against King j
George V; for him he has the greatest :
admiration.
Views of Chicago Mayor.
Bishop Deane gave his views of
Mayor Thompson today at the house
of Bishop James E. Freeman in the
Cathedral Close, where he is stopping
during his week’s visit to Washing
ton. He will preach Sunday at the
evensong service in Bethlehem Chapel
and at Epiphany Church.
He also gave his views on such
other American subjects as prohibi
tion. H. L. Mencken and Sinclair
Lewis, Boston, companionate mar
riage; New York subways, plumbing,
skyscrapers, press agents, prosperity, i
Senator Borah, newspapers and the |
new Ford car. He expects to drive
the first new Ford in Scotland.
While he was inspecting the new
Ford in New York one of the com
pany’s press agents tried to get him
to pose for a photograph with some
chorus girls, he said. He was quite
amuVd over the press agent’s in
genuity, but declined the invitation.
Liquor Sentiment Appraised.
The British Isles will follow America
with respect to doing away with the
saloon, Bishop Deane believes, but
“will never go the way of prohibition.”
He believes the system in Ontario is
the soundest, but thinks England and
Scotland are solving the problem of
liquor by two different methods. In
the first place,, there has been a
change in the public mind and
drunkenness is regarded as an offense
rather than a joke. In the second
place taxes have so raised the price
of whisky and beer people buy less.
“The thrifty Scot in particular has
become quite moderate,” he said.
It is a pity, the bishop thinks, that
America has been interpreted to the
British by H. L. Menckens “Ameri
cana” and Sinclair lewis’ “Elmer
Gantry.” “They seem to misrepre
sent the country," he said, although
he admitted that Mencken might be
a good influence because “when a
minister makes a silly ass of himself
he gets written up in the “Ameri
cana.”
He was quite surprised to learn that
Boston not only banned “Elmer
Gantry” hut a dozen or so other books.
“The city seems to be imitating the
Roman Catholic Pope in having an
index,” he remarked.
Cnmpaniate Marriage Opinion.
Companionate marriage is a "mis
chievous movement,” but not indica
tive of the soul of America. “It’s
only a little foam," he said.
“America is making the biggest ex
periment in the world hy trying to
mold all nations into one. Com
panionate marriage is like bootlegging,
murders and hold-ups. They receive
notoriety and some foolish people
imagine America is lawless, but after
being here a while they realize that
these things are the exceptions, played
ANNEXATION COURT
TO SEE TERRITORY
Inspection to Be Made of
Land Sought by Alexandria.
Appeal Planned.
By a Stafl Correapondeot.
; COURTHOUSE, Arlington County,
i Va., December 16.—1 n compliance
with a request by counsel for Arling
ton and Fairfax Counties, the tri
partite court hearing Alexandria’s an
nexation suit will make a personal
inspection of the territory which the
city seeks to include in her bounda
ries.
Just when the tribunal will adjourn
for this purpose is not known. The
trip probably will be made by auto
mobile and on foot. The judges are
Samuel G. Brent. Don Halsey and
Frederick Coleman.
Day Still Undecided.
In view of the recess until Monday
taken in the proceedings yesterday
afternoon, it is possible that the
judges may decide to undertake the
survey tomorrow or Sunday, weather
permitting. So far as could be learned
today, however, no decision in this
connection has been reached.
Most of the territory in dispute lies
in Jefferson magisterial district of
Arlington County and includes numer
ous fine residential sections in addi
tion to thev aluable revenue-producing
Potomac freight yards. A small sec
tion of Arlington magisterial district
is included in the proceedings. Por
tions of two magisterial districts in
Fairfax County also are wanted by
the city.
Plan Appeal to Court.
During the recess counsel for the
two counties will file with the State
Supreme Court of Appeuls in Rich
mond a writ of prohibition in an
effort to halt the trial on grounds of
unconstitutionality of the annexation
act of 1924. Tljis writ cannot be
acted on until the court meets Janu
ary 9.
Most of the session of the court
yesterday afternoon was taken up
with an explanation of numerous
maps of Alexandria and contiguous
territory by Paul Morton, city man
ager. The Introduction of each map
was vigorously objected to by defense
counsel on the ground that it had not
been prepared personally by Mr. Mor
ton from measurements taken by him.
The court overruled the objections in
each instance, defense counsel noting
exceptions.
LISBON 0. K.'s GAMBLING.
LISBON. Portugal, December 16
UP). —The Portuguese government has
invited tenders for licenses to run
gambling casinos in Portugal, Madeira
and other authorized zones.
This is In conformity with a recent
decision of the government to
authorize gambling in authorized
zones subject to tax.
■.pOjtyaMßgaiS: %,*x',
j
:
RIGHT REV. F. L. DEANE.
up in the press. Newspapers would
t*» dull if they recorded only the ordi
nary goings-on of an ordinary house
hold.”
Bishop Deane thinks America has
the best roads, the best houses, the
best plumbing and the best buildings
in the world. However, he doubts
the wisdom of building skyscrappers
so tali. "The higher you go the more
involved traffic becomes,” he said. “A
subway ride at the rush hour is the
nearest approach to inferno that the
mind can imagine.”
He contrasted the prosperity of the
workers in this country to the condi
tions in Great Britain, “where millions
are idle and many near stravation. In
Scotland many old families and mem
bers of the nobility arc in poverty and
have had to tear down old houses be
cause they couldn’t pay the taxes on
them.”
Admiration for America.
‘‘l have an immense admiration
for America and the overwhelming
kindness of the people to visitors is
like nothing else in the world,” the
bishop continued. “I am certain that,
whatever America thinks or the
League of Nations, she cannot escape
her destiny and assume the leader-;
ship of the world." He said he j
wanted to visit the Senate and hear
Senator Borah speak.
Bishop Deane is the sixth Bishop of
Aberdeen. He is in this country with
Very Bev. H. Krskine Hill, provost of
St. Andrew's Cathedral, to return a
visit paid to the first Bishop of Aber
deen by the first bishop-elect in Amer
ica. In 1784, when the English gov
ernment under George 111 had refused
to permit the consecration of Samuel
Seabury of Connecticut as the first
bishop of America, Seabury went to
Scotland and was consecrated by the
Lord Bishop of Aberdeen in an upper
room in a back street.
The house in which the consecration
took place was torn down and re
placed by a small cathedral. The
Bishop of Aberdeen now is asking
America to replace that building with
a new- cathedral, which would be an
American shrine commemorating the
long connection between the two
churches. The British and American
flags would hang together above the
altar, and windows would be installed
as memorials to American citizens.
Early Ties With America.
It seems that in the early days of
the American Episcopal Church it
was very close to its sister church in
Scotland. In fact, the Scottish church
was also being persecuted by George
111. There was a penalty of sik
months in prison for any minister who
conducted service*, in Scotland at
which more thaw ffeur’t>«‘r*onW weife
present, and the penalty for a second
offense was life imprisonment. Serv
ices were held in secret.
And once, says an old letter the
present bishop has, when the first
Bishop of Aberdeen ordered all his
clergymen to pray for George 111 there
waa heard in church “such blowing
of noses, such significant hums, such
half-suppressed sighs, such smothered
groans and such, confusion as could
hardly be imagined.”
Which explains why the bishop
doesn’t altogether disagree with “Big
Bill” Thompson.
LUNCHROOM MAN
FIRES AT BANDITS
Two Get $47 in Fourth Rob
bery in Three Blocks With
in 36 Hours.
An exchange of pistol shots early
this morning between Alexander P.
Eliades, proprietor of an all-night
lunchroom at 1616 Fourteenth street,
and two colored bandits, who had taken
|47 from the cash register failed to
prevent the escape of the bandits
and marked the closing episode in
the fourth successful hold-up within
three blocks in 36 hours.
Eliades was alone in his restaurant
when the two men, one tall and one
short, answering the description fur
nished yesterday by three previous
hold-up victims, entered and pro
ceeded to rob him, one man covering
hfm with a gun while the other
looted the cash register.
As soon as the men reached the
street Eliades seized his 45-caliber
revolver, which was out of his reach
when he was held helpless at the
point of the bandit’s pistol, and fired
four shots at the fugitives who were
disappearing down Fourteenth street,
deserted at 1:30 o’clock this morning.
One of the bandits wheeled and re
turned his fire, shooting four times,
but the bullets went wild. Eliades
thought that he might have hit one
of the men, but police, who came
when they heard the firing, could
find no trace of blood to indicate
that a man had been wounded.
Wednesday night, men answering
to the same general description held
up three nearby stores, including the
Zarouni's delicatessen, five doors
away. Three men participated in
that robbery, which netted them $49.
Two of the trio resembled a pair
which held up on the same night the
grocery store of Morris Phillips,
around the corner at 1347 R street
and a Chinese laundry, owned by
Sam Lee, at 1621 Seventeenth street.
FRANK W. HaL~DEMAN DIES
Funeral Services Tomorrow for
Veteran U. S. Employ*.
Frank W. Haldeman, 42 years old.
plate printer at the Bureau of En
graving and Printing for the past 21
years, died at his residence, 1340 Fair
mont street, Wednesday after a sud
den iliness.
Mr. Haldeman was a native of Cape
May, N. J. He was & member of the
Plate Printers’ Union.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Frances D. Haldeman, and a daugh
ter, Miss Dorothy Haldeman, both of
this city.
Funeral services will be conducted
in Wright’a undertaking parlors, 1337
Tenth street, tomorrow morning at
10:30 o'clock. Interment wilt be in
Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
k
SMOOT APPROVES '
MARKET SITE PLAN
Favors Location on Mail as
Temporary Step Only,
He Declares.
The proposal of the District Com
missioners to establish a temporary •
farmer's market in the Mall between
Sixth and Seventh streets will he
agreeable to Senator Smoot, chairman
of the Fublic Buildings Commission,
he indicated today.
He declared that the locating of the
farmers’ stands there wouia tte a,j.
! ceptable only as a temporary step. He
i said the Commissioners were familiar
i with the general plan for the ini
provement of the Mall and the tri
angle, in which the new public build
ing* are to be located and that he felt
sure they understood that a farmer s
market at the proposed location would
be a temporary arrangement.
The Public Building Commission, of t
which Senator Smoot is chairman, will
meet at his office tomorrow morning to
take up further detail of the Federal
building program. Plans for the Ar
chives Building, which is th* next to
be started, may be gone over if time
permits at th* meeting tomorrow.
Vigorous Figlit Planned. ,
Advocates of midcity location are
planning a vigorous fight before Con
gress to defeat the plans of the Dis
trict Commissioners to establish the
market temporarily on a site on the
Mall or on the Southwest site bounded
by E and G and Eleventh and Twelfth
streets, it was indicated today by
A. J. Driscoll, president of the Midcity
Citizens’ Association.
As leader of the group which sought
to have the market located on the so
called midcity site. Mr. Driscoll said
he is preparing a petition of protest
to be filed with the House District
committee and the Gibson investigat
ing committee against the recommen
dations of the Commissioners. *
The Southwest location, he added,
not only would ‘*ehoke the market to
death,” but would defeat the purpose*
I of the market completely, as well as
I be counter to the wishes of the ma
jority of its patrons.
Final selection of a new location for
the farmers’ produce market now rests
with Congress, which received from
the District Commissioners late yes
terday the recommendation that it be
established temporarily on Federal
owmed property on the Mall.
The Commissioners, however, ad
vised Congress that should a perma
nent lbcation be immediately neces
sary they would prefer the proposed
site in Southwest Washington bounded
by Eleventh and Twelfth and E and ■
G streets.
The recommendation of the Com
missioners was contained in an 18-
page typewritten report, which out
lined advantages and disadvantages (
of the eight proposed privately owned
sites and other factors on which they
based their conclusions. The report
was drawn up after an intensive study
of the market situation in accordance
with a resolution adopted at the last
session of Congress directing the Com
missioners to recommend a new loca
tlo nfor the farmers’ market, not to
exceed $600,000 in cost, by December IS.
The southwest site suggested for a
permanent location is one of the two
in this section which were considered
by the Commissioners. It is located
in squares 354 and 355 and contains
158,289 square feet. The assessed
value of the land is $53,984. and the
improvements $57,300, making a total
of $111,2.84, Charles A. Douglas, at
torney for the group advocating the
selection of this site, had advised the
Commissioners that it could be Re
quired partly by condemnation and
partly by purchase at a price not
exceeding $300,000.
Other Sites Eliminated.
The several other privately owned
sites urged for the farmers’ market
were eliminated by the Commissioners
for various reasons. The mid-city
site, which was vigorously supported
by A. J. Driscoll and the citizens’ as
sociation of that territory, was rit - I
. jected because it has no rail and water
transportation, and also because th*
Commissioners believe that the exist\
ing market at Fifth and K street^,...
serves a present need for a retail
market and will continue to do so.
The Commissioners recommended
. the southwest site as their preference
for a permanent site, chiefly because
, the cost of the land is low in com-
I parison with the other proposed loca
tions. The existing railroad and water
transportation and cold-storage facili
ties available, as well as its accessi
, bility to the farmers of Maryland and
Virginia, also were important factors.
The development of the southwest
location as a general market area,
the Commissioiners pointed out in the
report, would be entirely south of the
railroad tracks and would therefore
not interfere with the proper develop
ment of the Mall, nor would it en
croach upon the harbor front, since
a commercial street would separate
it from the latter. (
; FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS
' HITS RAISE ON PHONES
Resolution by Citizens’ Body to Be
Laid Before Committee of
Civic Federation.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
FRIENDSHIP HEIGHTS. ML, De
cember 16.—Protest against an in
crease in telephone rates from $5 for
unlimited service to $6 was made at *
a meeting last night of the Citizens’
Association here. The extra 5-cent
toll on incoming calls also would he
charged, it was said, and while the
change in area proposed to take effect
February 1 would eliminate Bethesda
charges, the saving would not com
pensate, the citizens held by resolu- »
tion, for the extra rates. The matter
will be laid before the executive com
mittee of the Montgomery County
Civic Federation Tuesday night at a
meeting,to be held at the Battery Park
Community House.
Refuse collection problems were dis
cussed and referred to a committee,
which will sound the sentiment of
residents. The association nominated
Emory A. Bagley and John A. P-
Farnham as members of the Bethesda
fire board for 1928, subject to con
firmation of the Friendship Heights
Citizens* committee.
RITES FOR GEN. ROBINSON
*
Funeral Tomorrow for Retired Of
ficer Who Died in Arizona.
Funeral services will b« held at the
Arlington National Cemetery tomorrow
afternoon for Brig. Gen. Frank U.
■ Robinson, U. S. A., retired, who died
at Phoenix, Arlz., last Monday. Gen.
Robinson was from New York ana
served in the Civil War as a second
’ lieutenant in th* 41et Infantry- 1°
1869 he was transferred to the Cav
; airy, in which he served until April,
1905. when he reached the grade of
brigadier general. He was retired in
October. 1908. at his own request-
l His widow accompanied the funeral a
party to this city. ™
Called for Examination.
Col. John J. Brady, United States
Infantry, in New York City, on leave
of absence, and Col. Robert H. Peck,
United States Infantry, in Atlanta, ,
Ga., have been ordered to examina
tion for possible retirement.
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