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Temperature Highest 52, at noon j
today, lowest. 34 at 5 am toda\
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Late N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15
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SPAIN RE-ENTERS
' LEAGUE OF NATIONS
ON BID Os POWERS
• Return Is Announced by Rep
resentative Following Cab
inet Meeting.
, WITHDRAWAL OCCURRED
NEARLY TWO YEARS AGO
Break Would Have Been Final if
It Had Continued Five
Months.
B' til? ,W<». IPrpM.
GENEVA. March 22 —Official return
of Spain to the League of Nations was
announced this afternoon by Don Pe
dro Sangro. Spanish representative.
The announcement was made by Don
Pedro at a session of the League com
mittee on child welfare. He said that
thf decision to return was reached at a
cabinet meeting in Madrid this morn
ing.
Spanish withdrawal from the League
of Nations would have become final in
September of this year, two years of
resignation being necessary.
In view of the approaching termina
tion of the two-year period, the Coun
cil of the league on March 8 sent
Spain a cordial invitation to reconsider
her decision to drop out of the League.
That Spain would respond favorably to
the appeal was generally felt in Geneva.
The withdrawal of Brazil will become
final in June and an invitation similar
to that sent to Spam was sent to her.
Spain resigned from the league in
September. 1926. the Spanish resigna
tion following rejection of her demand
; for a permanent seat on the Council
of the League of Nations. Tied up
with Spain's efforts to obtain a perma
nent seat was the problem of the in
ternational zone of Tangier, and since
! the Tangier question is well on the way
to settlement by a Fran co-Span ish
agreement, the return of Spain to the
league was confidently expected
WANTS V. S. IN LEAGUE.
Archbishop Says America Could Aid
World Peace.
LONDON. March 22 OP!.—Efforts
toward world peace and renunciation
of war would be stimulated if the
United States would enter the League
of Nations, in the opinion of the Arch
bishop of York. Dr. Cosmo Gordon
Lang, speaking on the Soviet proposals
for total disarmament.
Referring to the Soviet proposals as i
coming from a suspicious source, the j
jchbishop said that they stood con- j
■mned to him if only because they i
■tirely ignored the League of Nations.
M"I am convinced that it is quite j
Jripossible now to substitute any other
■leans whereby to end war than by
strengthening the covenant and mem
< bership of the League of Nations.”
The archbishop said if disarmament ;
proposals came from the United States
the British people would all enter into
obligations to renounce war. “I think
the achievement of that end would
come more quickly and easily.” he said,
“if the United States, instead of tell
ing us to renounce war, would enter
I the League of Nations.”
GREEK-RUMANIAN PACT.
Treaty of Arbitration Signed on Com
mittee’s Proposals.
/ BY JOHN til'Nl It Ell.
f Sr Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright 1938
GENEVA March 22.—Greece and
Rumania today signed a treaty of arbi
tration and non-aggression on the
model of the draft treaty prepared by
the security committee of the disarma
ment commission This is the first in
stance in which the labor of this com
mittee bore fruit and two powers actu
ally committed themselves to a treaty
based verbatim on the committee's rec
ommendations.
The treaty was signed by Foreign
Ministers Titulescue of Rumania and
Michelapopulous of Greece, both of
whom were sick in bed, Titulescue as a
result of his arduous labors in the
League Council, and Michelapopolous as
a result of a recent operation.
Since Greece and Rumania are not in
direct contact in any sphere, the treaty
will not change existing relations, but
n is important as the first actual Bal
kan treaty following the Locarno model
and may presage others.
Gossip has it that one of the reasons
th‘ Turks are here is to feel out the
gr ind for a possible eastern Mediter
ranean pact, in which Italy, Greece and
T irkey would be members Negotia
tions once w'ere started on this project,
but they were broken.
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T. P. O’CONNOR SAILS
AFTER VISIT IN AMERICA
Dean of House of Commons Plans
Vocational Endowment for
Irish in Britain.
Tiy th* Alt'!'
.ft: YORK March 22 1 P
( Tay Pay”) O Connor, dean of the
House of Commons, sailed for England
early today on the Aquitarha after a
visit of three weeks in the United
States.
He came here to seek a climate to
help his rheumatism. Before sailing
he said he was well pleased with the
reception he had received and was
looking forward to anothr visit.
He said he i/ad succeeded in inter
esting a group of wealthy Americans in
his plan for an endowment to provide
vocational training for Irish boys and
g.rls living in the British Isles Whil<
a large number of Irish live in Eng
land and Scotland, h< aid their prog
ress is not comparable with that of
lhe Irish in America and most of them
discontinue their studies when they
reach the age of 14
•
Yacht Libeled on Dry Count
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 22 ‘A‘>
-- The SBO,OOO yacht Itoamer, property
of F. D M Strachan Savannah and
Brunswick, Ga., shipping mar*, today
v.-as subject of a Federal iibej action
intended to forfeit it to the Govern
ment for' alleged violation of internal
revenue laws Strachan was arrested
fas* Saturday, when Coast Guardsmen
d;Movered 4! quarts of whisky on th»
yacht Hi- was later dismissed lh
was charged jointly with the yacht.-
captain, Alfred Thro P i Nielson <<#n
t !■
prohibition law#,
A
"GOLDEN RULE” DRIVE
; IS PLANNED BY STAR
. TO GUARD CHILDREN
(Inpilal Motorists to
l><* to Use
Urealer dare.
<>2 BOYS AM) GIRLS
KILLED IN YEARS
I
Gilded Ear to Tour City;
Movie W ith Local Last
W ill Stress Safety.
|
The bitterest tragedy that can come
into a home is the death of a child.
| And beyond all expression is the
agony that comes with th? realization
that the little mound in the graveyard
i is all unnecessary—the result of sonie
. | body's carelessness or ignorance.
:■ | The most abandoned criminals who
| shoot to kill without compunction will
; spare children
j Yet during the past fivp years 92
, Washingtonians have killed the children
, j of their neighbors.
Nearly a hundred homes have been
desolated. Nearly a hundred child
i voices that learned to lisp "Now 1 lay
me down to sleep" at the knees of their
mothers have been silenced forever.
These children have been killed by
' | automobiles on streets of Washington
j There are 92 little graves and 92
desolated homes in Washington—all
i because these motorists took unneces
! sary chances, ventured on the streets
I with bad brakes or failed to watch
i sharply enough the road ahead.
In some cases they violated the traf
fic code of the District of Columbia.
I In nearly all cases they violated the
BLANTON’S APPEAL
FOR STAPLES FAILS
Demand That Commissioners
Try Policeman Refused.
Justice Promised.
Representative Blanton of Texas has
demanded that the District Commis
i sioners give special consideration to
Policeman Orville Staples of the third
precinct by hearing the charges pend
; ing against him instead of the Police
i Trial Board, it was learned today at
the District Building
Blanton made this demand for an
; unusual procedure in the trial of a
I policeman at the 15-minute conference
I he had Monday morning with Commis
| sioner Proctor L. Dougherty, who has
! charge of the Police and Fire Depart
ments. He was actuated, it was said,
I by a fear that Staples would not receive
| justice from the trial board in view of
reports that he had furnished some of
i the information used in the recent at
tack on the Police Department and
! Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent
Commissioner Dougherty, it was said,
: explained that the demand could not be
j granted, and that Staples would be as
! sured a fair trial before the police
j board. Staples, the Commissioners
pointed out, can be represented by
j counsel, and if he is not satisfied w-ith
the decision of the b<«ard he could ap
peal to the Commissioners to review its
findings.
The Commissioners already have
taken extraordinary steps to assure the
i policeman a fair trial by directing the
j corporation counsel’s office to take Miffl-
I cient pains in the preparation of the
i charges and evidence against mm u.
| make sure that it is conclusive.
’ < The firing of a builet through the
! rear window of the automobile of Pa
| trolman Staples last night and the
I burning of the automobile belonging to
; Policeman Frederick A. Schenck, both
: of the third precinct, are being in vest i
: gated by police today.
Staples reported that as he was closing
! I the door of his garage in the rear of his
I i home at 2003 Thirty-)seventh street
' ; last night he heard the report of a pis
! tol shot. A steel-jacketed bullet was
, j found to have passedthrough a rear
j window of the garage a‘nd then through
, j the car window. Patrolman F. E. Stro
! man. whom he summoned, found the
| missile on the floor of the car.
! Schenck’s automobile, it was report
| ed was taken from its parking place on
j Twenty-first street between K and L
! streets at midnight and was found
about an hour later at Lovers' lane and
j Massachusetts avenue almost destroyed
i : by fire.
The theft of another car belonging
j to a member of the Police Department
i' was also under investigation today. The
car was the property <k Detective Fred
erick Sandberg, identification expert,
and was taken lrom Eleventh street be
tween e and F streets, last, night and
had not been recovered this morning
The same car, it was learned, was tak
en from Tenth and F streets last. Friday
I night and found abandoned in that
, neighborhood Saturday morning,
j ! taken poison
•
Shot Dead in Parked Car.
-j DETROIT, March 22 <A'> Samuel
, PolakofT, vice president of a cleaners
j a nrl dyers establishment here and for
. j mer general manager of the Retail
, , Cleaners' Union, was found shot to
. j death today at the wheel of his cat
1 ' parked in a street here Police attrib
| uted Polakoff’s death to a price ami la
boi wit among cleaners and dyei
House Asked to Prohe Organizations
Called Foes of Defense Legislation
1... t
j
Investigation by a special House com
j • millet of organizations which, he halt!,
y were protesting "against every measure
j, directed at adequate national defense"
_ was asked today In a resolution by Hep-
I re ten la live Maas, Republican, Minne
d so'a
i, He aid that one organisation within
«* . the “shadow of the White House,” |
( boasts that it lias 2,500 trusted agents,
i aho on a day s notice can organize a
d j i ampalgn to send from 60,000 to 280
i) i 000 letters to Congress
it was commonly charg'd, he said,
4
m Aliening pkr.
V s , J WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION V*/
WASHINGTON. D. <’ TIiriLSDAY. MA KM ’ll 22, ID2H - FORT V-EKM IT HADES. *
I Siv ( liililmi to Take
Part in Film; Sitimmi
Tests to He Satimlav
Six Washington children will
be selected for parts in The Star's
safety film, "The Penalty,"
Parents who desire to enter
their children for this unusual
opportunity should bring them to
j The Star Building at 11 am.
Saturday. Screen tests will be
made of all children entered and
those best adapted to appear be
; fore the camera will lie chosen
for the lead parts.
All the children who romp,
however, will be in the picture,
j Croup views will be included in
the finished production.
The children should be over 5
years of age, but preferably wn
’ dcr 10. All will be given rareful
screen tests.
t one fundamental traffic law which in
. eludes ah the others and a great deal
besides—the golden rule.
If this law were obeyed, there would
be no need of any other laws.
, Starting Saturday. The Star will pre
. sent a demonstration of the Golden
1 Rule in terms of automobiles.
| A large gold-plated car—certain to
> attract attention wherever it goes—
' ; will cruise quietly through the streets :
of the city, exemplifying the merits i
of careful driving. Pledge cards will
i be distributed throughout the city for ;
, motorists to sign, agreeing to play fair
j and guard the lives of others.
A feature picture. "The Penalty."
- with a cast of local children, will be
filmed and presented at the Fox The
ater starting Saturday, March 31
The whole object of the demonstra
, tion will be to induce the motorist to
put himself in the place of others—to
realize the* physical suffering and un
i i utterable grief the act of a careless sec
, ond may bring.
So far as the present campaign is
. concerned Ihe safety of the motorist
himself is a secondary consideration. It
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MELLON TO IGNORE
RESIGNATION MOVE
Secretary Will Keep Post Un
less President Demands
His Withdrawal.
It was made clear today at the
Treasury that, regardless of the result
.of the vote in the Senate on the resolu
tion aimed to obtain his retirement
from the cabinet, Secretary Mellon
would not resign.
It was evident in Treasury circles
that Mr. Mellon would ignore the at
tack upon him in Congress unless
President Cooiidge should demand his
withdrawal from office, and no such
action was considered possible. The
j resolution for the Secretary's retire
i nient, offered by Senator Couzens, Re- I
publican. Michigan, arose partly from !
the Teapot Dome inquiry and Mr.
Mellon’s failure to disclose that Will
H Hays, former Republican national
chairman, had offered him Sinclair j
I Liberty bonds in exchange for a cam- !
paign contribution
Urging adoption of his resolution dc
> ciaring the Senate in favor of the 1
resignation of Secretary Mellon, Sena- i
> tor Couzens today declared in the
s Senate that the Treasury head had
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INCOME TAX STILL
SNOWING A GAIN
' I
! j Receipts March 20 Now Lead
Those of Last Year by
• i
t Several Millions.
i ;
! By the l're**
J j Another jump in the rate of receipts
* : ftom March 15 income tax collections
l was noted today in Treasury figures.
To the close of business March 20 the
1 payments had reached $3.15, 054,469.
I j while for the same period last year 1
I j ,hf> total was $368,504,665.
I It will be several days before the
i actual total of the quarterly receipt*
! can be ascertained, but the rate of the
[ incoming returns on which tax revision
will be based is still ahead of last year.
Secretary Mellon holds the opinion
. that the estimates of the Treasury as
i to Government surplus will not need
a revision, since some increased con
' i gressional appropriations arc likely to
\ offset the extra returns from the in
j come tax.
As usual tlie income flowing into the
i Government coffers at this season is
moving out again wiht equal rapidity,
since the established policy of handling
1 tiie Government's floating debt left by
b the war is to time short-term loan pay
ments m harmony with tax payment,
i j Though the Treasury on March 20
) ; took in $87,000,000 and spent but $ll,-
000,000 its actual cash balance was
- ; lower at the end of the dav than the
- j day before because of the application
i of tiie receipts to the short-time loan.
(hat. some organizations participated In
such campaigns for profit and not pa
triotism, and in addition that other
organizations wore "dominated and in
spired, if not actually financed, by for
eign interests."
One member of Congress received
more than 2,800 letters protesting
against the new naval warship con
struction program recently passed by
the House, he added, and the "clutme
i ter of these letters and the "mum
stances surrounding this campaign are
too »«> liflcant to b« ignored."
FEDERAL ATTORNEY
SALARIES RAPPED
BEFORE COMMITTEE
Interior Department Employe
Claims Legal Talent Is
Now Underpaid.
i
URGES WELCH MEASURE
BE PASSED BY HOUSE
Declares “Average Salary" Pro
vision Is Applicable to
Onlv a Few.
The disheartening story of the Fcd
i era! attorney who protects his Govern
ment in intricate legal cases involving
millions of dollars and receives as a re
ward « comparative "pittance’' was un
folded today before the House commit
tee considering the Welch bill to In
crease Federal salaries
The plight of these unsung Govern-
I menl legal heroes, on whose decisions
I often depend grave industrial problems
j and international treaties, was depicted
! to the civil service committee by George
A. Warren, an attorney in the Interior
| Department and member of a commit
| tee of the Federal Bar Association.
Warren was sandwiched into a pro
cession of eight members of Congress
who wished to urge the committee to
report the bill favorably to the House.
It was indicated that the session this
afternoon will conclude open hearings
ion the bill and that committee mem
j'bers will go into executive session to
formulate their report.
Warren Files Brief.
| Warren filed with the committee a
i lengthy brief constituting a petition on
i behall of Government lawyers by the
| Federal Bar Association. The associa
tion's brief was signed by the following,
jin addition to Warren: Edwin A Niess.
i chairman: F. C. Baggarly. J. Ernest
j Downing. Thomas L. Eggleston. Charles
William Freeman. Willis E Monty and
I William R. Vallance.
Representatives who spoke in favor of
it he bill this morning were Mead, New
i York: Bohn and McLeod, Michigan;
! Gambrill. Maryland: Bloom and Comb
New York; Arentz. Nevada, and Gooti
i w in, Minnesota
Warren, in his oral plea to the com
mittee, followed closely the written brief
which he later filed with the clerk. He
j said the Federal Bar Association, rep
j resenting the legal profession in the
j administrative service of the Govern
! nent, favors the Welch bill and earnest
j ly urges its enactment at the present
session, "believing the measure sound
in principle, greatly needed and in the
interest both of the general public and
j the employes."
Warren presented to each commit
tee member a chart showing how Gov
ernment employes "are almost com
pletely denied in each grade any but
the lowest salaries provided for in the
classification act of 1923."
"We believe.” Warren testified, “that
the men and Women whose duty it is
(Continued on Page 4 Column 5.)
LEGISLATORS FIGHT
FISCAL STUDY RAN
Say Proposed Commission
Would Take Away Con
gress Powers.
After proponents of the Zihlman
j resolution for appointment of a com
; mission to study fiscal relations between
j the Government and District taxpayers
had agreed to elimination of any refer
ence to the 60-40 proportion, provision
for employment of clerks and even
yielded the citizenship representation
on the commission, Representative
Simmons of North Carolina and Cram
j ton of Michigan, members of the House
appropriations committee, today object
ed strenuously to the resolution.
Former Representative Stengle, chair
man of the fiscal relations committee
of the Federation of Citizens’ Associa
tions. and Dr. George C. Havenner of
the Citizens’ Advisory Council and vice
president of the federation, appeared
before the Beers subcommittee, holding
hearings on the Zihlman measure, anti
yielded these points, In the hope of
bringing an agreement on the resolu
tion
Representative Simmons' opposition
i was principally on the ground that such
| a commission would infringe upon Juris
diction of the House legislative and ap
propriations committee regarding the
District.
Opp» . I). V. I’art in lnt|uiry.
Representative Cramlon declared that
he was opposed to an investigation by
a congressional commission on which
the District citizens have representation
and is opposed to a study of fiscal re
j latlons by a Joint commission, com-
I posed of members of the House and
I Senate, staling that if an investigation
is desired it should be conducted by the
House Itself or by a commission en
tirely of District residents.
Representative Cram ton asserted that,
tile House wants an opportunity to vote
directly »n the lump-sum appropriation
to make it permanent law and charged
that ills bill that would do this has not
been permitted to come out of the Dis
trict committee
i Mr Stengle, at the opening of the
hearing, declared that the organized
citizens of the District are willing to
eliminate from the Zihlman resolution
any provision as to a fixed proportion
mi as not to raise a highly controversial
question with a view to permitting a
fair-minded study of what is just,
Alter Definite Conclusion.
"The Federation wants tins commis
sion to arrive at. a definite and fair
conclusion. It wftnts to know the truth
and will abide by It, so that all con
troversies that, have continued for many
years may be settled," In reply to a
question from Representative Bowles
of Massachusetts, Mr. Stengle expressed
the opinion that there are existing
agencies of the Government which al
ready have a mass of information that
would la* available for the proposed
comm! ton and said Ids thought v
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COOLIDGE REPEATS
li HE IS OUT OF RACE
i
President Makes Stand Clear
for Third Time Through
His Secretary.
BY J RUSSELL YOUNG.
1 i
For the third time Calvin Coolidge
has declined to become a candidate to
succeed himself as President, and has
made known his honest desire to retire
i to private life at the expiration of his
present term
Hts latest announcement in this re
spect was in the form of a letter he
authorized Everett Sanders, his secre
| I retary, yesterday afternoon to send to
I L C. Hinkle, chairman of the Repub
| lican State committee of Wyoming, in
| which he very definitely refused the
| importunities of that committee ‘to
I waive his personal preference and con
! sent to continue for an additional four
: years that leadership which has brought
j honor and prosperity to the country."
I This avowal of the President, while
! almost as brief as that now famous
! 12-word statement he made out in the
Black Hills of South Dakota last
i August, tn which he so completely
| shocked the country by announcing that
I he did not choose to be a candidate
; to succeed himself, is expected to re
move any existing doubts about the
i President's attitude toward another
term.
Text of Letter.
This response to the Wyoming Re
publicans was "My dear Mr. Hinkle: j
The President has received your letter j
of the 17th, inc losing a copy of j
the. resolution adopted by the Repub
lican State committee of Wyoming on
S March 10 While he, of course, very j
I greatly appreciates and thanks you for I
the expressions of confidence, the Presi
dent directs me to say that he must'
decline to grant the request of the
committee.
“Sincerely vours.
“EVERETT SANDERS.
“Secretary to the President,"
The President saw' to it that his let
| ter was not made public until after the
I stock market had closed, and as a
i means of making it clear to the country
I and party just exactly what it is the
President was declining, the White,
House made public, with the letter;
.signed by Secretary Sanders, the reso
lutions in question adopted by the Wyo
ming Republican State committee,
which resolutions are looked upon by
friends of the President as a part of j
the movement to set in motion an or
ganized campaign to force or persuade
the President to change hts mind about
another term.
This last announcement, while re
ceived here with much interest, espe
cially as it is the second time since
the Black Hills renunciation that lie has
made hts attitude known, did not cause
the sensation that followed the original
statement nor did it have the same
effect as djd the speech of reiteration
he made lam December to the members
of the Republican national committee,
gathered in the east room of the White
House
It is tell very certain that this uist ,
action on (lie part, of the President will [
go far to block the growing movement
to draft him as the Republican stand- \
aid h* arer. or io bring about a stampede
at the next Republican convention
The White House has reason to know j
that most of (lie more infiugnclal Re
publican leaders, with the exception of i
William M ■ Butler, chairman of the!
Republican national committee; Charles ‘
D Htlles of New York, vice chairman
of that body, and C Bascorn Slemp.
national committeeman from Virginia
have long since come to the conclusion
that Mr. Coolidge had very definitely
removed himself from consideration and
from the party equation and that it ;
i was useless to attempt to persuade him
to reconsider.
See Help for Hoover.
Also a number of business men have i
been engaging m the drafi Coolidge
' talk, but tt ts thought now that even
these ‘die-hards’’ must accept the
President’s attitude as definite and final
Another existing impression today, fol
lowing the President’s last reiteration, j
is that the supporters of Secretary of,
Commerce Hoover will be greatly en-|
couraged.. it is the hope of many of
these friends ot Mr Hoover that he will ]
now receive the support of many of the
; administration followers, and that this
lasi action of the President should be
the means of swinging some of them
Into the Hoover line without any great j
> delay,
William It Wllleox of New York, who
: managed the Hughes presidential cam- 1
paign in 19Hi, predicted after a cal! at
[Hi' White House today that President
I 1 nlge will lie renominated ut the
in City convention next June
, nether Hie President would accept
j in. nomination is problematical. Will*
cox said, contending that he had not
1 disclosed defintelv what ire would do
under such circumstances,
SINKING SHIP SIGHTED.
Foui Masted Schooner Abandoned
Off New Jersey Coast.
BOSTON. March 22 OP).—The Boston
owners of the four-masted schooner
John C. Hildebrand received word yes
terday that the vessel, which sailed
from Norfolk March 14 for Eastport,
Me., coal laden, had been sighted, aban
doned and in a sinking condition, off
the New Jersey coast. Her crew of 10
men apparently had been taken off by
a fishing vessel, the advices said.
It was assumed here that the vessel
had opened her seams in the gale of
I Saturday night.
MUSEUM ROTUNDA
CLOSED TO PUBLIC
Slipping Keystones Cause
Transfer of Exhibits Until
i
Dome Is Strengthened.
j
| Slipping keystones in great arches
supporting the dome of the New Na
j tional Museum, first discovered several
vears ago, have caused authorities to,
close off the entire rotunda
Tiie order followed testimony before
Congress by engineers who asked an
appropriation of $BO,OOO to strengthen
the great dome Extensive reeonstruc- !
| tion work will be undertaken shortly by
the supervising architect of the Treas
ury Department.
Some difference of opinion as to the
gravity of (he dipping of the stones ap
pears to exist between engineers who
testified before the House subcommittee
on appropriations and officials of the j
Smithsonian, but the rotunda, never- j
theless, has been closed to the public
and exhibits are being removed to make !
I way for the work Great trestles will
be built from the floor to repair the
| dome.
Warned to Remove Exhibits.
Smithsonian officials were warned, it
was learned today, to exclude the pub
lic and remove the exhibits.
Dr. A. Wetmore. assistant secretary I
of the Smithsonian, said it had been
found advisable to close the entire
rotunda, but that the remainder of the
building is perfectly safe. He empha
sized the statement that all exhibits o!
the institution are still on view in parts j
| of the building where there is no dan
' ger whatever.
The principal slipping has been in
one keystone of one of tiie four inches j
under the dome. This stone has .
dropped to a point where the change is
easily perceptible to even an untraned
eye li is also evident that the xey- j
stones in the other three arches have
i begun to separate from the stones next
to them, showing cracks in between
Dome Will Be Bound.
The principal feature of the recon
struction work will he two great steel
bands, which will be placed entirely ,
I around the outside of the dome These;
j will tie put in a position about 20 teet
• apart, and are designed t > strengthen
the nr< hitectural construction so that
j there will he no furthei slipping, and
no further danger
j The New National Museum was built j
j m 1911. The great dome is about
i 80 feet in diameter, and rises more than
,80 feet above the floor
Assistant Secretary Wetmore insisted
I today that the danger to the pubite
I now was not great The strain and I
I stress on tiie dome and Us supporting
arches, however he said might loosen
a small particle of stone, which drop- 1
j ping for the great distance might m
j flict serious injury
Budding Resign Criticised.
i W C. Lynn, an expert of the Super
vising Architect's Office of the Treas
ury, when appearing before the House
subcommittee on appropriations on the
j matter, criticized the design of the
Museum Building
Chairman Madden of the committee
remarked: "It does not look like very
i good construction in the beginning
"No." replied Lyon "1 think it was
i a great fault ot design to put the dome
i up eccentrically on supporting piers
i without having backed up those piers
(Continued on Rage ft, Column 3 >
;Mayor and Parish Priest Use Puhliettv
In Vain Effort to Get Ma rriages in Town
*
i —~
! B> Ut« AMOeUled Pres*
CAMPOHOIANO. Italy Mitidi 3?.
1 Publicity pays, thinks the mayor of this
1 hamlet
There hasn’t been a wedding in a
vent There are pretty enough girls
here hut the local wains were either
■•in in unwanted Hie parish priest
was geuing worried about tt and took
the problem up with tus honor
The mayor said, (tint he would oftei
h gold fountain pen as a wedding pres j
ent to the first pair to have a nuptial j
. . «
The only evening paper
in Washington with the
Associated Press news
service.
Yesterday’* Circulation, 105,520
(/P) Means Associated Press
TWO DIE,TO BURNED
IN SNIP EXPLOSION
Fumes Ignited as Crew
Ventilates Cofferdam on
U. S. Vessel.
R' th>* Associated Press.
Two enlisted men are dead, five suf
fered serious burns and four enlisted
men and one chief warrant officer suf
fered minor burns as a result of a
gasoline explosion yesterday aboard the
destroyer tender Whitney, at Guanta
! namo Bay, Cuba.
The dead are William Melvin Delevett,
; seaman, second class, of 3606 Windsor
Mill road. Baltimore, and George Ed
ward Garrett, seaman, first class, of
Ozark, Mo.
List of Injured.
Those seriously injured were:
John Frederick Narr. machinist's
mate, third class. Mount Royal, N. J.
Donald Le Roy Burch, fireman, third
class, of Independence, Mo.
John Jav Easterling, seaman, second
class, of Streetman, Freestone County,
Tex.
Guiliermo Dario, mess attendant, of
San Roque, Cavite, Philippine Islands.
Willard Edmonston Jannie. seaman,
second class, of 906 Dale avenue south
‘ cast. Roanoke, Va
Those who received minor bums
i were:
William Albert Gardts. chief gunner,
of Twentieth avenue. Paterson. N. J.
Frank Benjamin Huslander, seaman,
first class, of Pine Hill road. Chelms
ford. Middlesex County. Mass
Edward Peter Michalski. apprentice
seaman. 2211 Winterling Court. Balti
more, Md.
i Howard Franklin Bousquet, seaman,
second class, of Island City, Union
! County. Oreg.
! Marvin Warren Weaver, apprentice
1 seaman, of 118 Catherine street. Johns
town, Pa.
The official dispatch from Vice Ad
miral Ashley Robertson, commander of
the scouting fleet, said the accident
occurred at 9:40 a.m on March 21
while the personnel were ventilating the
cofferdam adjacent to the gasoline
storage space.
Court of Inquiry Ordered.
The report said the fumes were
ignited from an undetermined source or
cause.
The men who were seriously burned i
were transferred to the hospital ship i
Mercy, where Delevett and Garrett died
about 6 o'clock* last night.
The men less seriously burned were
kept on board the Whitney for treat
ment. There was no material damage j
to the vessel, the dispatch said. A court !
of inquiry was ordered immediately
VETERAN. LOST EIGHT
| YEARS. BELIEVED FOUND
W. F Furlong, Kansas City. Had
Been Given Up as Dead—Wife
Married Again.
By the tiUoil I'ress
KENT. Ohio, March 22.—Given up !
a> dead soon alter he disappeared j
| eight years ago from his home at
Kansas ('tty. Mo William Edward Fur- ,
long. 42, a World War veteran, is be- j
flexed to have been located in a veter
ans’ hospital at Great Lakes, 111
A letter to his brother, Law tenet'
Furlong of this city, purporting to have
been written by the missing man. today
took the brother to the Great Lakes
hospital in an effort to establish the
writer's identity.
"I guess I have been insane most of
the time for l haven't known where 1
was.” the letter said
William Edward Furlong, shell shock
ed, gassed and wounded In the war dis- !
appealed in 1920 After a long search, t
hts wife believing him dead, married E i
K Seals and is living at Overland
Park Mo
*
Clause Postponement Favored.
A Senate resolution to $ mas t pone (ot
one year Uk -flaring in operation of the
national origin clause of the tmmigra- j
tion act was approved today by the
House immigration committee
knot tii>d The priest passed the word
j around, but although one couple pre-j
I sen ted themselves, they ret used the j
j gltt Neither could read or write.
No move couples came along Then
the mayor had a story published in
the provincial papers telling of the >ad
I state ot affairs in Camporgtano, the
! result so (at* is that two long-languish
ing maidens have gone to out-of-town
| husbands, one a farmer and one a j
! lawyer ot Turin, while the mayor and j
| the priest are selecting a third for a j
i police official In Puebla, Mexico.
TWO < ENTS.
FALL AND SINCLAIR
TRIAL IS SEVERED;
OIL MAN ID FACE
COURT ON APRIL 4
Government Counsel Moves
for Separate Hearing Aft
er Justice Indefinitely Post
pones Joint Action.
DEPOSITION BY FORMER
SECRETARY IS OPPOSED
Teapot Probers Will Not Take His
Evidence at This Time, Walsh
Indicates Ex-Cabinet Officer
Eenies All Knowledge of Conti
nental Firm.
By th»i Associated Press
The conspiracy trial of Albert B. Fall
and Harry F. Sinclair today was severed
! by Justice Jennings Bailey, who ordered
| the wealthy oil operator tried alone
; April 4.
Sinclair and the former Secretary of
! the Interior originally were scheduled to
j go on trial for a second time April 2,
j but counsel for Fall obtained a post
ponement on the grounds that he was
too ill to be present.
Government counsel immediately
moved to have Sinclair tried separately
and the motion was granted by Justice
Bailey, who set the trial date ira-
I mediately.
Sinclair Counsel Fights.
Counsel for Sinclair opposed the move
to sever the case, contending that Fall's
testimony was necessary to the oil man’s
defense.
There is to be no effort at this time
by the Senate Teapot Dome committee
to obtain the testimony of Fall.
Both Chairman Nye and Senator
Walsh of Montana, who have been di
recting the affairs of the committee,
thought the former Interior Secretary’s
reply to the request of the committee as
to his readiness to testify closed the
matter for the time being at least.
”1 think this disposes of the matter
we had in hand," said Senator Walsh.
A similar view was expressed by Chair
man Nye, but it may be that the ques
tion will be taken up at an executive
meeting of the entire committee later.
In the telegram to Chairman Nye
, last night, Mr. Fall called attention to
i the conspiracy case pending here
I against him and Sinclair in connec
• tion with the leasing of the Wyoming
naval oil reserve, and said he was ready
to tell the “whole truth" in a deposi
tion to the court.
Would Await Action.
Pending the outcome of his plea for
continuance of his retrial on the ground
that his health would not permit a
trip to Washington from Texas. Fall
asked the committee if it would not
be better to await the outcome of the
[ court, action before seeking his story
| for the committee records.
Fall’s telegram, filed from El Paso,
i »as in answer to one sent; him by
I Chairman Nye calling attention to pub
j lished reports indicating that the for-
I mer Interior official was ready to "tell
j the whole story and not just part of
it.” and stating a subcommittee would
proceed to El Paso at once to take the
testimony “if you are readv and willing
to testify.”
In his reply Fail said he had made a
statement in connection with the pend
ing conspiracy case, but that it was
to the effect that he was "ready to
have my deposition taken here <E!
Paso! in any manner requested bv the
court and that I desired the whole
truth be told and would offer no objec
! tions to any question that might be pro
! pounded to me touching any phase of
| this entire matter."
Ignorant of Continental Firm.
He denied any knowledge whatever
of the Continental Trading Co. the
disposition of whose profits the com
mittee is now tracing, and also said he
knew nothing about Sinclairs "contri
butions to any campaign fund except
; as hearsay ”
He said he did know, however, of the
matters concerning three naval oil re-
I *wve leases and about the financial
transactions testified to by M. T Ever
hart. his son-in-law, regarding his
i Three Rivers. N Mex., ranch holdings.
What 1 meant to say and l mean
now to say." his reply read, "is that I
j ««» perfectly willing to testify to ail
matters within my knowledge upon the
subjects indicated.
| With due respect to your committee
and the Senate. I may state now posi
tively. despite what is known as the
. McLean letter, dictated bv me and ad
dressed to the committee, I was ready
and willing to give all information in
my possession to the committee, but b\
the terms of the Senate Resolution No
. 54. I regarded myself .us having teen
! convicted by the Senate and committee
■ und feared that testimony given bv
me before the committee and not un
; der the protection of a court would
have tended to convict me in a Judicial
form.
'My understanding of the law has
been and is that with mv consent mv
co-defendant. Mr Sinclair, can pro
pound interrogations and the Govern
ment cross-interrogations in the ludi
cial proceedings pending and use my
answers just as if I were present hi
court."
In I dilution Misleading
The Mclean referred to in the tele
gram t> Edward H. McLean, publisher
of the Washington Post, who testified
in March, 1924. that he hud given the
, committee misleading information about
the celebrated SIOO,OOO loan to Fail be
; caused he destml to help his friend.
| The publisher insisted at that time that
! the story about the loan he told to
I Senator Walsh at Palm Beach in the
previous January was correct- -namely
j that he had loaned Fall SIOO,OOO in
, checks for a ranch enterprise, but that
I the checks were returned to him uu
i . ashed His previous assertion that the
j loan was made in cash, he said, was
! made at Kail’s request
1-alrr. Edward l IXdieny. lessee of
the now canceled Elk Hills oil leaervr
contract admitted that he had loaned
Fall SIOO,OOO at about ihe tune the
lease was negotiated Fall also received
$233,000 ot the Continental Liberty
bonds from Sinclair after the latter ob
tained the Teapot Dome lease, but now
•ays he knows nothing about that
VContinued on l'age 4. Coluuut $4