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WEATHER.
*tX. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.'
Fair tonight and tomorrow: colder
tonight with lowest temperature about
10 degrees.
Temperatures—Highest. 42. at 2 p.m.
yesterday; lowest, 26, at 5 a.m. today.
Full report on page 9.
Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15
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PLANE AND FLYERS
IN FINE CONDITION;
ALOFT 1« HOURS
All Records Are Shattered.
Men Deafened by Roar
of Motors.
QUESTION MARK HOVERS
CLOSE TO HOME PORT
Tioublc Saturday Night Which
Threatened Forced Landing
Seems Eliminated.
B- the Associated Press.
METROPOLITAN AIRPORT. Los
Angeles, January 7.—Alan and ma
chine still were pitted against time
and gravity today as the Army mono
plane Question Mark continued on its
seventh day of flight. There were no
more records left to break and it flew
in the watchword "sail on and on."
Apparently in perfect condition, the
plane ended its 146th hour in the air
at 9.26:46 am. Observers reported it
bad consumed a minimum of gasoline
during the night, indicating that the
motors were performing at, their best.
This was said to mean that the time
when the great mechanical bird gives
way under the strain is “remote. "
Reports on the condition of the five
men were that they were as fit as the
plane, except that they had been
deafened by the constant roar of the
motors. They previously had declared
that the longer they remained up the
better they liked it.
All memories of the trying week end.
during which they had to contend
against missing spark plugs, cold, diffi
cult refueling situations and lack of
sleep, seemed to have vanished.
Close to Home Fort.
The big monoplane continued to hover
close to its home port, however, in or
der to keep the records it has made.
The plane must land at the scene of
the take-off in order to have the rec
ords officially accepted.
At 6:45 a.m. the Question Mark
made contact with a refueling plane
and took aboard its usual supply of
gasoline. A package of delicacies and
emergency rations also was transferred.
The 139th hour of continuous flight
was passed at 2:26 a.m.
Motor trouble which developed Sat
urday night apparently had been elim
inated. The trouble, caused by fouled
plugs, was eliminated by Capt. Ira
Eaker, chief pilot, when he threw open
wide the throttle of the big liner and
brought the lagging cylinders back into
action. It was considered so series at
one time Saturday night that Maj. Carl
Spatz, in command, ordered all men to
their posts to be ready for a glide to
earth.
Passes Dixmude Mark.
The first crisis was caused earlier last
week by combined fog, clouds, bad
weather and threatened fuel shortage.
The Question Mark, which took off
from this airport at 7:26 a.m. New Year
day, claimed the last aircraft endurance
record yesterday morning when it soar
ed past the estimated 118 hours of con
tinuous flight made by the ill-fated
Dixmude, lost in the Mediterranean.
The monoplane already has beaten
the more recent and better known en
durance and distance record of the Graf
Zeppelin, which covered 111 hours 34
minutes and 6,500 miles in its limping
voyage to America last Fall.
Shortly after eclipsing all lighter
than-air records, the ship doubled the
previous endurance refueling records of
airplanes, and at the 131st hour last
night had remained aloft double the
time that an airplane ever flew before.
It is estimated that the ship in its
amazing demonstration of mechanical
and air-worthiness has flown be
tween 10,000 and 12,000 miles, nearly
half the distance around the world.
The tenth night refueling of the ship
shortly after midnight today also was
the speediest yet accomplished by the
two large Army planes engaged in its
resupply. But 32 minutes were re
quired by the refueling ships from the
time the Question-Mark dropped a fuel
signal flare until the plane had gone
up, put 170 gallons of gasoline aboard
r d landed again.
It was believed this supply would
keep the ship, which had returned to
high altitudes within gliding distance
of this port, going until nearly daylight.
During Saturday night’s motor trouble,
when the ship mounted to unusually
high altitudes, five refuelings were
necessitated.
Feasibility Held Proved.
Flight, observers point out that the
many night contacts with the ship, as
well as the large number of daily day
light contacts made, has proven com
pletely the feasibility of refueling
planes in flight, an operation attempted
only a few times prior to the present
flight, and then never with great
success.
An entry by Lieut, Elwood R.
Quesada, one of the four pilots aboard,
in the log dropped here yesterday re
vealed that the men no longer could
trust their ears in determining condi
tion of the motors. During Saturday
night’s difficulty he had written:
"One motor sounds all right but it
doesn’t look so good. It is slowing up
We can’t trust our ears any more. It
looks as though the human being
would outlast the motors. They are
going fast."
bunday’s performance, however, in
dicated that Quesada's fears for the life
of the motors were groundless for tin
present at least. Ground and refueling
observers said they appeared to b<
functioning smoothly.
Faker’s Message.
An entry by Capt. Eaker at 4 o cioci
vesterday morning indicated what th<
flyers have to contend with in low term
peratures. It said:
Just took over (the con oil for ai
hour. I lound it too cold for me a
fi.ooo feet and dropped to 4,000. W<
are suffering from cola more tonigh
than any night so far. One of our win
dows blew away today and there is i
howling gale in here all the time
Shortly thereafter Maj. Spatz wrote:
Everything is in readiness for i
forced landing. The plane will not hob
its altitude on two motors. ... I be
lieve our hearing has been temporaril;
afiected. because to all of us our sigh
tells us a cylinder Is gone, but our hear
ing tells us nothing."
Hsbitnal Criminal Code "Upheld.
LANSING. Mich.. January 7
The habitual criminal section of th
Ftate Criminal Code was upheld by th
Ft ate Supreme Court today when i
affirmed the. conviction of Fred Palm
,Lf.n-ins boo'leggej.
LETTER PENNED ON “QUESTION MARK’”
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ance plane "Question Mark,’’ and received by his mother here this morning.
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Letter Delivered
Here Written on
Duration -Plane
Senl by Quesada lo
Mother, Given to Refuel
Pilot, Put in Airmail.
What is thought to be the first let
ter ever mailed from an airplane dur
ing the course of«-a record flight was
received today by Mrs. Helen A.
Quesada. 4716 Ninth street, from her
son, Lieut. Elwood Quesada. night pilot
on the Army endurance plane Question
Mark, in its flight over California.
The letter was transferred by Lieut.
Quesada from the Question Mark to
the refueling plane, piloted by Capt.
Ross G. Hoyt, on January 2, the second
day of the flight, and was sent to this
city by airmail. It is written on
stationery specially prepared for the
flyers by residents of Los Angeles. In
his letter, which is brief, Lieut Quesada
told his mother that the flight, then
only 12 hours old, was proceeding
smoothly.
“We are going strong is what T mean,"
be wrote. “The first day went over
big. No trouble at all. The people
out here are in our comer. Received
your telegram and undershirts. They
are great, just what I needed.
“We get wonderful food. The ladies
on the post fix us up right. We have
everything a person Could want—good
food, warm clothing, comfortable beds,
etc.”
Drawing on Stationery.
The envelope in which the letter was
malted bears the lettering, “U. S. Army
Air Service. Refueling mission. Tri
motored Fokker Question Mark.” The
letter head shows a drawing of the
Question Mark in flight and bears at
the top the same lettering as the
envelope. Below the head, on the left,
is the list of the plane’s personnel:
Maj. Carl Spatz, Capt. Ira C. Eaker,
Lieut. H. A. Halverson, Lieut. Elwood
Quesada and Sergt. Roy W. Hooe.
Below at the right is the date line:
“On board the Question Mark over
Southern California, January —, 1929,
day of flight.” , . ,
The undershirts referred to by Lieut.
Quesada in his letter were sent to him
by his mother by parcel post and were
delivered to him aboard the Question
Mark in the air. This Is thought to
be the first parcel post package ever
delivered to a person aboard an air
plane in flight.
“I knew it would be cold In the air
at night and that the men would need
all the warm clothing they could get,”
Mrs. Quesada said, explaining her
package to the young flyer, who Is the
junior member of the Question Marks
crew.
Ignorant of Plans.
Mrs. Quesada said that she had no
intimation of the part her son was to
play in the Army’s spectacular flight
until the day before the Question Mark
left Bolling Field for the West Coast,
last month.
“I knew he was going to California,
but did not know for what purpose,”
she said. “He had previously made
two flights west, once by himself and
the other time to fly Brig. Gen. J. E.
Fechet, assistant chief of the Army Air
Corps, to the aeronautical exposition at
Mines Field last September. The Ques
tion Mark's flight was planned secret
ly and I knew nothing about It until
the day before they left.”
Lieut. Quesada has been in the Army
Air Corps only two years. He is as
signed to permanent duty in the office
of ths chief of the Army Air Corps
as personal pilot to Gen. Fechet. He
flew the general to Greenly Island, off
; the northern Canadian coast, last Sum
; iner as a part of the expedition sent, to
the relief of the crew of the German
transatlantic monoplane Bremen.
I ~
i Mclntyre Accepts Appointment.
‘ i Maj. Gen. Frank Mclntyre, retiring
j chief of the Bureau, of Insular Affairs,
' j has accepted appointment as Philippine
“ trade commissioner in Washington.
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t Shoemaker Friend of Northampton
i Keeps Promise and Visits Goolidge
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t By the Associated Pres*.
- James Lucey, Northampton, Mass.,
shoemaker, today kept a promise to
an old friend.
Seven years ago Lucey assured Cal
vin Coolidge. then Vice President, that
- he would visit him in Washington.
b Today he kept that promise, and chat
e ted with the President for more than
t 15 minutes in the executive office and
, then had luncheon with him.
Lucey and Mr. Coplidge have been
if
Mhe fEhenitw
WASHINGTON, D. 0., MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1929—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. ** OP) Means Associated Press.
THREE ARE INDICTED
IN ‘POMf CASE
Placed on Trial for Slaying
of Farmer in York
County, Pa.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
Staff'Correspondent of The Star. ’
YORK, Pa., January 7.—Shadows of
a distant past seemed to have settled
over the York County courthouse today
as three men went on trial for murder
of an alleged witch doctor.
In the center of the business section
61 a flourishing American city a grand
jury returned the three indictments
and country people had flocked in from
the nearby countryside prepared to tes
tify to the potency of charms of the
devil and their faith in superstitions
which were rife in the German Rhine
land two centuries ago.
The case went to the grand jury at
10:30 a.m. True bills against all three
of the principals were retimed at 10:44.
Two counte were Included in each in
dictment, murder and manslaughter.
Plead Not Guilty. >
Immediately after the indictment the
defendants, John Blymyer, Wilbert G.
Hess and John Curry, were arraigned
to hear the charges read to them in
full. The bills charged them with kill
ing Nelson D. Rehnieyer, 60-year-old
recluse. All three pleaded not guilty.
During the selection of the jury no
reference is being made to belief in
witchcraft. District Attorney Amos W.
Herrmann, who Is prosecuting the case,
may try to prove a robbery motive in
the murder of Rehmeyer rather than
that the recluse, widely reputed to have
possessed supernatural powers, was killed
because it was believed he was “hexing”
the family of young Hess.
Sensitive Over Witchcraft Charge.
York is a bit sensitive over the witch
craft angle of the case and no provisions
were made for the newspaper men who
descended upon the town and Judge
Ray P. Sherwood, the trial judge, ruled
that all except representatives of the
press associations must take their
chances as spectators in the little court
room once the trial gets under way.
Blymyers’ lawyer, Herbert B. Cohen.
Is quoted as saying that the defense will
attempt to establish the point that his
client actually had reason to believe
that he was being subjected to malific
supernatural influences.
ASA KEYES ORDERED
TO APPEAR FOR TRIAL
Former Los Angeles Prosecutor and
Six Co-defendants Face
Bribery Charges.
By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, January 7.—Former
District Attorney Asa Keyes and six co
defendants were ordered to appear for
trial here today on charges of bribery
and conspiracy growing out of the
Julian Petroleum Corporation stock
overissue frauds.
District Attorney Buron Fitts, who
once was a subordinate to Keyes,
subpoenaed more than two score .wit
nesses and announced that he was pre
pared to demand immediate trial.
Among the first expected to be called
are Joseph Sherman, Milton Pike and
John liettenger, whose notes in & small
diary became the testimony upon which
the grand jury largely based its indict
ments. The trio were employes in the
tailor shop of Ben and David Getzo,
alleged go-betweens in the pay-off of
asserted bribes.
In addition to Keyes and the Getzoffs,
the defendants are Jack Bennett of
Julian Petroleum Corporation; Ed and
Jaek Rosenberg, brokers and former
defendants in the Julian fraud cases,
and Charles Reimer, former confiden
tial investigation for Keyes.
friends for 37 years, since the Presi
dent was a student at Amherst College,
when he used to drop in at his shop
to talk with the cobbler.
Lucey said that his conversation
with the President today dealt with
old friends and reminiscences of hap
penings in Northampton. He was par
ticularly impressed with the President’s
physical condition and thought Mr.
Coolidge was looking as fine as he had
ever seen him*
HOOVER CONFERS
WITH PRESIDENT
ON GOOD-WILL TRIP
Tour Believed Success and to I
I
Have Aided Pan-Amer
ican Parley.
PRESIDENT-ELECT ADOPTS
ATTITUDE OF SILENCE
Came Here to ‘“Listen"—Policy
May Retard Action on Farm
Relief Bill.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN'.
President-elect Herbert Hoover’s
“good-will trip’’ to Central and South
America was the subject of his 4irst
conference today with President Cool
idge since his election.
The President-elect called at th-
White House at 9:30 o’clock this morn
ing and was closeted with President
Coolidge for nearly three-quarters of an
hour. It was Mr. Hoover’s first call
since he returned to Washington yes
terday afternoon.
The Hoover trip to South and Central
America was reported to have been en
tirely successful and to have aided ma
terially in the satisfactory agreements
reached at the Pan-American Confer
ence in Washington.
Adopts Policy of Silence.
Mr. Hoover, it was said at his head
quarters in the Mayflower Hotel, has
come here to “listen.” He is not talking
for publication. He is seeking informa
tion.
Tne impression was conveyed that
Mr. Hoover does not intend to discuss
publicly matters of legislation now be
fore Congress. That includes the farm
relief bill.
If Mr. Hoover persists In this attitude
of silence toward the farm bill, it is cer
tain that no bill will be passed at the
oresent short session of Congress and
That Mr. Hoover will be expected to ful
fill his campaign promise to call Con
gress to meet in special session this
Soring to handle the farm problem.
This will be a sad blow to those mem
bers of the Senate and House who have
urgently recommended to Mr. Hoover
that he place his shoulder behind the
farm bill so that it may be put through
now and a special session of the new
Congress be avoided. However, there
has been no little skepticism on Capitol
Hill that any farm bill can be put
through both houses before March 4
rolls around, whether Mr. Hoover gives
the measure his approval or not.
Among Mr. Hoover’s early callers at
the Mayflower headquarters today were
Benator Edge and Senator-elect Hamil
ton Kean*, both of New Jersey. They
had let it be known in advance that
they intended to present to Mr. Hoover
the name ot DWight W. Morrow, Ameri
can Ambassador to Mexico, for appoint
ment as Secretary of State, Mr.. Morrow
is a resident of New Jersey, and the
Senators are urging his appointment
both as a matter of State pride and on
the ground that Mr. Morrow is emi
nenty qualified for that effice.
Both Senator Pegs and Senator Bur
ton of Ohio wHI recommend to Mr.
Hoover that he appoint. Waiter F.
(Continued on Page 2. Column 1.)
EIGHT POLICE FAIL
TO HALT BAHTS
Six Hold-up Men Shoot Way
Out of Theater With Loot
of $2,500.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 7.—With a
blood-spattered, bullet-marked car as
their only clue, detectives today were
seeking a gang of gunmen who es
caped with $2,500 after a gun battle in
the lobby of a crowded Brooklyn
theater.
While 2,500 patrons scrambled for
shelter from the score of shots, six
gunmen fought their way out of the
Pox Folly Theater, in the Williams
burg district last night, with two po
licemen pursuing them and six others
seeking to bar their way to the car
where two other gunmen waited.
The manager and treasurer of the
theater had just placed the day’s re
ceipts in the office safe when the six
entered. Samuel Schullhalter, the
manager, was forced to open the safe.
A uniformed policeman in the theater
with his wife was called by an usher
and joined the special officer employed
by the theater as the robbers backed
out of the office.
The two policemen opened fire on the
retreating gunmen, who returned their
fire. Two sergeants and four patrol
men attracted by the shooting joined
in the gun fight while women and chil
dren in the theater screamed and
sought cover.
One of the policemen was wounded
in the hand. The robbers’ car, which
had been stolen and bore stolen license
plates, was found later with 27 bullet
holes in it. Blood on the floor and
cushions indicated at least one of the
gang had been hit.
COLDEST WAVE COMING.
Frigid Weather, With Mercury at
30, Predicted for Washington.
The coldest weather of the Winter
will be blown into Washington tonight
by winds from the frigid northwest.
The Weather Bureau forecasts a de
cided drop to a minimum of about 10
degrees before morning. The previous
low record of the Winter was 20 de
grees.
The cold spell will be of short dur
ation, the Weather Bureau promises,
and will be unaccompanied by snow.
Fair but zippy weather Is foreseen for
the next 24 hours.
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Radio Programs —Page 10
can be recomputed
TEX RICKARD DIES
IN MIAMI HOSPITAL
Body of Sports Promoter En
Route to New York After
Brief Rites.
By the Associated Press.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., January 7.
George L tTex) Rickard, who traveled
an adventurous road from cowboy to
millionaire and found more gold in
making boxing champions than in the
Klondike, was on his last journey today.
Rickard died in the Allison Hospital
here yesterday on the sixth day of an
illness which followed an operation for
appendicitis New Year night. The body
of the promoter whose name topped all
the rest in the world of fistiana, was
being borne to New York, the scene of
his greatest-triumphs, on the Havana
Special of the Florida East Coast Line
Railroad.
Mrs. Rickard, who had kept a faith
ful vigil beside her stricken husband;
Jack Dempsey, who loved the promoter
as his "test pal"; Walter Field, Rick
ard's friend, and Steve Hannegan. rep
resenting the city of Miami Beach, ac
companied the body. Over the bronze
casket, so heavy that 18 men were re
quired t 6 lift it into the hearse, lay a
blanket of roses, given bv Dempsey and
F’eld. and which bore the tribute" To
Our Pal.'*
Promoter Dies Gamely.
Rickard died gamely fighting the vi
cious inroads of peritonitic infection
which followed the operation. He re
mained conscious until about two hours
before his death at 8:37 o'clock yester
day morning. Shortly before lapsing
into the coma from which he never ral
lied, he turned to the faithful wife and
friends who gathered at his bedside with
the assertion that he was "getting a
tough break, but I’ll fight."
Then the dying man grasped the hand
of Mrs. Rickard, and the feeble voice in
quired solicitiously about his 3-year-old
daughter.
When told that Maxine was all right
and wanted her father to get well.
Rickard said “Help me over this, sweet
heart. I’m fighting my .” he did
not finish the sentence, and in two
hours he was dead.
Stricken New Year Day.
A certificate, issued shortly afterward
by Dr. E. H. Adkins, who attended
Rickard, said that death resulted from
“an overwhelming infection following
acute gangrenous appendicitis.” Rick
ard was stricken on New Year day, but
believing he suffered indigestion, he de
termined to bear the pain and overcome
it. Later, the pain became so acute
that physicians were summoned and the
operation followed. This was pronounc
ed successful and Rickard apparently
was Improving until Friday night when
he suffered a relapse from which It
was feared death might come that
night. But the promoter rallied and
some hope, was held for his recovery
until the sudden denouement came
during the early hours of yesterday.
Dempsey, rugged ring warrior, be
came a nervous, unstrung boy as he
realized that the man who had lifted
him to a high place was dead. “I've
lost the best pal I ever had," he de
clared. "I am grief stricken over his
death."
When Dempsey left the room and
sought the reception hall, he struggled
to control his emotions. His pale face,
covered by a two-day growth of beard,
Dempsey choked as he said: “It must
come to every one, but it’s mighty hard
to see Tex go. We can only carry on as
he would have done."
Brief Services Held.
Grief striken and on the- verge of
prostration, Mrs. Rickard was forced to
go to bed, where she remained all morn
ing, but, demonstrating the same
strength that carried her through the
ordeal of her husband’s Illness, she was
able to attend brief funeral services in
the afternoon.
Rickard was not a church member,
but Father William Barry of the Cath
olic Church, to which Mrs. Rickard be
longs, officiated at the services. The
body then was taken to the car now
bearing it to New York, but the funeral
party did not arrive at the railway sta
tion until shortly before train time.
Although it was not traveling in a
private car, the party virtually had the
benefit of one, since only a single com
partment had been taken by others—
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"The Vicarion”
By Gardner Hunting
Begins on
Page 29
of Today’s Star.
Sees His Reflection,
Thinks It His Enemy,
Smashes Window
Raid to have mistaken his own
reflection in a show window for
thab of another man, Abraham
Rauah. a soldier, last night broke
a wiiidow of the City Service Sta
tion, Third and Virginia avenue
southhvest, and was arrested for
destroying private property and
disorderly conduct.
Accdrding to Policeman Knapp
of the j fourth precinct who made
the artest, Raush took his own
reflection for that of Phillip H.
Gordon, station attendant, with
whom he had previously had an
argument.
On l\is own request the soldier
was tuiVied over to the military
authoritVs when arraigned before
Judge GUs A. Schuldt in Police
Court.
MALM OUTLINES
MERGER BENEFITS
Tells Capper $50,000,000
Valuation ShoulcfSe Left
Out of PlanA
Holding to his original recomhaemia
tion that the 150,000,000 valuation
should be left out of the street railway
merger plan, Dr. Milo R. Maltbie told
Chairman Capper of the Senate Dis
trict committee today that "very great
benefits” still would accrue to the com
panies by the merger, even if all of the
changes urged by him are made.
Dr. Maltbie declared the companies
would gain through the merger the
$250,000 a year they now are required
to pay in salaries to crossing police
men, and would save from $500,000 to
$1,000,000 annually in reduced operat
ing expenses.
“Using the lower figure,” he contin
ued, “the companies will gain by unifi
cation, regardless of all other consider
ations, approximately $750,000 per an
num.”
Subcommittee Meets Wednesday.
Immediately upon receipt of the
letter Senator Capper announced the
subcommittee in direct charge of the
merger question will meet at 10:30
Wednesday morning to begin its de
liberations and that Dr. Maltbie would
come from New York to attend.
After outlining the savings he esti
mates the companies would gain from
unification. Dr. Maltbie continued:
“The Capital Traction Co. has a
valuation which must be recognized by
rate-making bodies at most onlv until
a new valuation can be made. The
Washington Railway Ss Electric Co. has
no valuation fixed by the courts as of
any date, and the last one made by
the commission is nearly 10 years old.
The property of the Washington Rapid
Transit Co. has not been valued at any
time by a court or a commission. The
establishment of a value of $50,000,000
for any period would create a right
which neither the properties nor the
companies have today.
“If the companies are seriously con
sidering the abandonment of the whole
merger proposition unless they can have
a valuation of $50,000,000 established
for some period in the contract, and
thereby placed beyond the reach of any
commission, court or Congress itself,
such recognition is not merely formal.
It has been said that when unifica
tion takes place the rights which the
present companies have regarding valu
ations will lapse or become worthless.
Whatever these rights may be, they ad
here to the property and will remain
with it regardless of ownership."
In another part of his letter Dr.
Maltbie said:
“Why should the companies surrend
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Weapon in Pocket of Cair or Under Seat
Unlawfully Concealed, justice Robb Rules
A weapon is unlawfully concealed
when reposing in such proximity to
a person as to be convenient of access
and within reach. It does not have
to be concealed on his person, but may
be in a pocket of an automobile or
hidden under the seat of the machine.
This in effect is the ruling of the
District Court of Appeals in an opinion
by Justice Charles H. Robb affirming
the action of Judge John P. McMahon
in Police Court, who told a jury that
it would be a violation of law if within
his reach. Pomeroy Brown concealed
a pistol in an automobile. The jury
convicted Brown and he appealed.
“No one familiar with present con
ditions,” says Justice Robb, “will doubt
the necessity for a concealed weapon
lats, Congress enacted for the
T~L.
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DORAN OFFERS DRY
PLAN FOR CAPITAL
Three Suggestions Submitted
for Consideration of Gib
son and Subcommittee.
Federal Prohibition Commissioner J.
M. Doran today submitted to Chariman
Gibson of the subcommittee considering
a separate prohibition law for the Dis
trict of Columbia, three suggestions to
make prohibition enforcement more
effective here.
These recommendations were made
following a hearing at which Commis
sioner Doran testified at the request ol
the Gibson subcommittee. The recom
mendations are:
I First, enactment of the Sheppard act
of March 3, 1917, after eHminatiw
I therefrom certain sections found inef
fective and after substituting and add
ing certain sections which are calculate*
| to effectively accomplish enforcement
Second, passage by Congress of ar
act making the national prohibition acl
and acts amendatory thereto, includ
ing the Willis-Campbell act, applicable
to the District.
Offers Further Explanation.
Third, passage of an act for the Dis
trict similar in importance and lan
guage to the prohibition laws enacted
by Legislatures of several of the States
i Commissioner Doran offered to have
the chief counsel of the Prohibition
Bureau, or one of his assistants, ap
pear before the Gibson subcommittee
to explain any aspect of the statutes
i suggested in his recommendations.
In explaining the first suggestion
tlommissioner Doran pointed out that
the first paragraph of section 1 of the
Sheppard act, might be eliminated and
wv>rds to the effect that no person shall
on or after the passage of the act, man
ufacture, sell, barter, transport, Im
port, export, deliver, furnish or possess
any intoxicating liquor otherwise than
authorized by the act, be substituted
The word “purchase” might be in
cluded in this prohibition if deemed ex
pedient. The definition of alcoholic
liquors might be eliminated and the defi
nition of intoxicating liquors as set
forth in the national prohibition act be
substituted. The penalties provided
for In the Sheppard act might be
chjuiged to conform to those in the
Jofies-Stalker bill, now pending in Con
gross.
I’he commissioner advised that sec
tion 2 of the Sheppard act might be
eliminated and the following Inserted:
“Liquor for non-beverage purposes and
wins for sacramental purposes may be
manwfactured, purchased, sold, bar
tered, transported, imported, exported,
delivered, furnished and possessed, but
only under permits duly Issued by the
comimissioner of prohibition, who is
vestod with discretionary authority to
issuv such permits and fix the amount
of bond in case the commissioner de
termines that a bond shall be required.
All i.uch permits shall expire on De
cember 31 next succeeding issuance
thensof, but may be renewed for the
ensuing year at the discretion of the
commissioner. Permits may be re
volted in accordance withthe procedure
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HOUSE TO"GET~>AY BILL.
Lehfbach Expects to Introduce His
Measure Tomorrow.
Cjiairman Lehlbach of the House
District committee expects to introduce
in the House tomorrow the relief bill
for A he lower paid Government employes
who did not benefit as Congress in
tent! Bd they should under the Welch
pay :aci.
Mr. Lehlbach was delayed in the com
pletion of this bill, which he had ex
pected to introduce today, by the fact
that he was presiding in the House
all Hay Saturday.
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I
purpose of protecting the public from
the of concealed deadly and
dang< rous weapons. Its purpose is
wholesome and it is the duty of the
court; in construing the law to have
in mind the legislative Intent.
“The word ’about’ is a comprehen
sive term and we must assume that
Congness intended it should be accord
ed sut h interpretation. Had Congress
intended to limit the prohibition to
the carrying of such weapons on the
Grson? it must be assumed it would
ve used the word ‘on* instead of
‘about/, We rule, therefore, that the
words ‘‘concealed about the person" as
used in the statute were intended to
mean, and do mean, concealed in such
proxlmiiy to the person as to be con
venient of access and within reach,"
TWO CENTS.
HOOVER TO TABOO
ELABORATE PLANS
FOR INAUGURATION
President-Elect Willing to Re
view Parade on Lines
of Coolidge March.
CONFERENCE WITH GRANT
IS SCHEDULED TOMORROW
Future Chief Executive Tentative
ly Approves Program of Ex
ercises at Capitol.
BY REX COLLIER.
President-elect Herbert Hoover wil£
taboo any plans for an elaborate inJ
auguration, in accordance with his
viously announced determination that!
his induction into the presidency shall
be “as simple as any ever held."
He will make plain his ideas in this
connection in a conference tomorrow
morning with Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant,
3d, chairman of the inaugural com
mittee.
j That the President-elect may con
j cede a point or two in t>e discussion
of plans for a large civic parade was in
dicated this afternoon by Senator Moses
of New Hampshire, member of the com
mittee on arrangements for the cere
mony at the Capitol. Following a con
ference with Mr. Hoover at the latter’s
i office, the Senator said he gained the
impression that Mr. Hoover would not
object to a civic parade from the Cap-
I itol to the White House lrorpediately
I following the induction exercises, but
would insist on a small military escort
to the Capitol prior to the induction.
It was understood at Hoowr
quarters that the President-elect did
not expect the parade to exceed that
of the Coolidge inaugural.
Approves Capitol Program.
The President-elect today approved
tentatively the program of formalities at
, the Capitol, as outlined by Senator
Moses of New Hampshire and Repre
sentative SneU of New York, who com
> prise the committee In charge of ar
, rangements for the actual swearing in
on Capitol Hill.
This part of the program, of course,
> always is of profound dignity, and there
, was no difficulty in obtaining Mr. Hoo
, ver's approval on the simple plans out
lined to him by the legislators. Senator
Moses and Mr. Snell conferred with Mr.
Hoover in his private office at the May
. flower Hotel for more than half an
• hour- On emerging Mr. Snell explained
! that the discussion centered solely
. around the formal ceremony at the
. Capitol, since the committee of which
he is a member is concerned only with
1 that end of the day’s activities,
“Mr. Hoover found the plah£ we have
i made entirely satisfactory," Mr. SneU
. “id. “The induction ceremony will be
’ exactly similar to those held taw years
• ago for President Coolidge. 7?t<re wiU
1 b* the same seating arrangtis«nts in
tie Capitol with seats reserveo iur 8,000
persons.
“The Capitol rites will be very simple.
• Mr. Hoover has no objection to any
• formalities demanded by the impor
-1 nance of the occasion. Remember that
the induction of a Chief Magistrate of
! the United States is an important funo
i ikin. The ceremony must measure up
■ to the position in Impressiveness and
• dignity.”
“The congressional committee
will notify the future President when
: the hour of the ceremony arrives, and
will go with him from his home to the
; Capitol and thence back to the White
‘ House.”
The President-elect first made known
his antipathy to an elaborate inaugural
' program at Palo Alto just after his
election. He did not mince words on
‘ that occasion, pointing out that he felt
that the ceremonies should be as brief
and as simple as it is possible to make
them. He reiterated these views in
even plainer language during his cruise
to South America. It was at this time
' that he indicated his opposition to a
civic parade of any kind. It was under
stood he would approve nothing more
than a small military escort. Including
perhaps Army troops. Bluejackets ana
police. The impression was gained that
he had studied the inaugurations of
his predecessors with a view to ascer
taining the simplest ceremony on rec
ord, and of emulating it.
Repeats His Wishes.
Today, on leaving the White Houif
after his conference with Presideil
Coolidge, Mr. Hoover once more stresses
the fact that he wanted his induction
into office to be “as simple as possible.*
He said he had not changed his mind 14
any respect about this matter.
In view of these repeated assertlonj
it seems very unlikely that the Presi
dent-elect will agree to any plans for a
civic demonstration in his honor. This
would imply that he will turn thumbs
down on any proposal for maching units
on Pennsylvania avenue next March 4,
with the exception of the small milltai-y
escort demanded by custom, if not by
law. There is no doubt that great pres
sure will be brought to bear on him to
permit various patriotic, veterans', civic
and other organizations to have groups
In the line of march, but unless he can
be made to see that such units are ab
solutely essential, they will be left ous
of the procession.
As for an aerial show during the pa
rade, there is a possibility that he will
raise no serious objection. He may agree
that the importance of aviation may
warrant its inclusion in the official
escort.
The appointment Chairman Grant of
the Inaugural committee was reported
to have had with Mr. Hoover for today
has been postponed until tomorrow
morning. E. F. Colladay will accom
pany Col. Grant to the conference with
the President-elect.
Chairman Graham of the committee
on general entertainment has decided
to limit the fireworks display to only
one period—the evening of March 4
although It had originally been intended
to have displays of fireworks March 2
and 3, as well as March 4. One of the
large theaters—probably either Keith’*
or Poll’s—is to be secured for a recep
tion to the State governors who com*
to Washington for the inaugural. Tha
Washington Auditorium has already
been engaged for a charity ball on tha
evening of March 4. There will be no
official inaugural ball.
Another meeting of chairmen of th*
several committees will be held Thurs
day afternoon, at the New Willard
Hotel, when Col. Grant will outline to
the heads of the committees the exact
wishes of the President-elect with re
spect to the Inaugural. Immediately
after this meeting it is expected that
contracts for the reviewing stands will
be awarded and the real work of get
ting the ceremony under way begun.
Just how long the parade will be. fn
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