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WEATHER.
(V. 8. Weather Bureau Forecasts
Fair tonight; tomorrow cloudy and
warmer, probably followed by light rain
and colder tomorrow night. Tempera
ture*—Highest, 81, at 5:30 p.m. yester
day; lowest, 3s, at 7:15 a.m. today.
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M’DONALD TO STAY
UNI DEFEATED ON
IMPORTANT ISSUE
Tory Demand He Resign Is
Met With Calmness by
British Premier.
BALDWIN MAY CALL
FOR VOTE OF CENSURE
Prime Minister Declares He Is
Willing to Accept Decision
of General Ballot.
Mr the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 12.—Although de
feated by eight votes in the House of
Commons on an amendment to its coal
mines bill, the Labor government of
J. Ramsay Macdonald will not resign,
but will continue in office until its
administration is assailed successfully
on a matter of importance.
The amendment to the coal mines
bill, which Conservatives and Liberals
passed over Mr. Macdonald's head last
night, does not materially change the
measure. Immediately after the di
vision count of 282 votes for the
amendment and 274 against, the prime
minister was asked by Stanley Baldwin,
Conservative head, if he intended to go
on with the bill.
The question, in effect, was a formal
voicing of shouts from Tory benches
a few minutes previously of "Resign!
Resign!” and was a query as to
whether the government would resign,
precipitating a new general election.
Macdonald Replies Quickly.
Mr. Macdonald answered quickly:
"I am amazed at the question. Mr.
Baldwin will have an opportunity two
days fiom now to move his party’s vote
of censure. I shall be glad to accom
modate him if he will make his vote
of censure general, and we will accept
the decision.” Mr. Macdonald evinced
no discomfiture at his defeat, which,
indeed, was somewhat negatived by
subsequent government majorities on
other minor points, one of which was
M votes.
There was some question whether
Mr. Baldwin would push the censure
motion which several days ago he an
nounced he would propose. There have
been many evidences recently that
neither the Conservatives nor the Lib
erals wish really to oust the Macdonald
ministry while the naval conference is
in progress. The Dally Herald, Labor
organ, today invited them to do so,
predicting that in a new general elec
tion the Macdonald government would
a clear majority in the House,
which they do not now have.
The censure motion, which was men
tioned in threats of Mr. Baldwin and
Winston Churchill March 5, condemned
what it described as the "evasive and
drifting policy” of the Labor govern
ment It deplored the current trade
depression and the increase In the
number of unemployed workers.
Safety t€ Government Seen.
It was believed that if Mr. Baldwin
did move the vote of censure tomorrow
there would be enough abstentions to
Insure the safety of the government
Yesterday's vote was Labor’s first re
verse in the House of Commons after
nearly nine months’ administration of
the government.
The coal mines bill, on which the
defeat was administered, has been
pulled to pieces by the Commons op
position, and once caused a government
defeat in the House of Lords. The
amendment which was passed over the
government’s protest yesterday demand
ed that the government proposal of a
levy on the output of coal for the pur
pose of facilitating its sale be omitted
$2,000,000 FIRE RAZES
WHARF IN NEW ORLEANS
passage to Steamer la Estimated
at $500,000 in Second Water
Front Blase.
Mr the Associated Press. ... .
NEW ORLEANS. March 12.— Twisted
gteel and charred piling* were aU that
remained today of the Mandeville
Wharf, destroyed last night by Are at *
loss estimated by dock officials at
astrous waterfront fire of undertermin a
origin this month. f
The fire started beneath the floor ol
the dock structure late * nd
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Officiate 01
the line estimated the damage at
a steamship of British
reaistrv leased by the same line, was
towed from'the y wharf before being
damaged seriously. ~ _
The steamship Scantic, earlier this
month was burned considerably by a
which swept the Charbonnet Street
Sock Several lives were lost and
damage estimated by property owners
at $3,000.000 was done.
RUM PURCHASER CASE CARRIED
TO U. S. SUPREME COURT AS TEST
Department of Justice Appeals Recent Decision of Boston
Judge That Purchase Is Not Crime.
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By tb* Associated Press- .
The Department of Justice today car
ried to the Supreme Court a test case
to determine whether the purchaser of
intoxicating liquor la guilty of con-
was made from the recent
deS&Hf Judge Nlorton o
Boston, In which he held that the pur
ehase of liquor was not a crime.
The Government already f“*P*“**?*
before the court a case Involving a con
spiracy between a purchaser a
seller to transport intoxicating liquors.
In announcing the filing of the sec
ond ease to determine whether the pur
chasing of Intoxicating liquors for bev
erage purposes Is of itself a violation of
the prohibition act, the department said
the action was taken In view of the di
versity of opinion of various judges on
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chargee against James E. Farrar, who
eras held by Judge Morton not to have
£een guilty of a crime In purchasing
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CLAUDIUS H. HUSTON.
JAPANESE REJECT
U. S. COMPROMISE,
DEMANDING 70 PCI.
Impasse With France Is Seen
as Stimson Refuses Con
sultive Pact Plea.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.
By Cable to The Star and Chleaso Daily
News. Copyright. 1930.
LONDON, England, March 12.
Reijiro Wakatsuki. chief of the Japanese
delegation at the London Naval Con
ference. saw Secretary of State Henry
L. Stimson today and told him, accord
ing to reliable report*, that Japan was
unable to accept the American compro
mise proposals advanced by Senator
David A. Reed in conversations with
Japanese Ambassador Tsuneo Matsu
dalra.
Wakatsuki explained that the Ja
panese admiralty refused to abate in
any respect Japan’s 70 per cent claim
and Japan’s insistence on 78,000 tons
of submarines.
The atmosphere of the Japanese dele
gation has been decidedly pessimistic
during the last 48 hours, and at no
moment has The Star's correspondent
been able to verify from Japanese
sources the easy optimism with which
the American delegates have hitherto
always spoken of the Japanese problem.
French Claim at Bottom.
It is believed that the Japanese have
been informed of the tonnage Increases
which the British admiralty proposes to
make in case the French refuse to re
duce their figures. These tonnage in
creases. forcing Japan also to do addi
tional building, are extremely distasteful
to the Japanese, as is also the Idea of
a three-power agreement with Great
Britain and the United States, but with
out France. . .
It is learned further that 100 mem
bers of the British Parliament, princi
pally of the Independent Labor party,
will tomorrow present Prime Minister
Macdonald with a petition urging real
naval reduction and the conclusion of
an agreement, without too much insist
ence by Great Britain on the two-power
standard.
Political Phase Is Ended.
Secretary of State Henry L. Stlmson’s
public statement that the United States
cannot accept even a pact to confer in
case of a danger of war, because it then
would be morally bound to help France
if France is attacked, with Great
Britain’s flat refusal of the Prench
Mediterranean pact proposal, has. it is
considered, ended the political phase of
the conference.
Aristide Briand, Prench foreign min
ister, will make a public statement of
Prance’s views tonight, and will return
to Paris, presumably for good.
It is widely believed here that the
Stimson statement was made more or
less on Prime Minister Ramsay Mac
donald's request. The British Labor
government did not desire to accept the
sole onus of rejecting all pact proposals
whatsoever.
Action PtKzlet Observers.
Some are puzzled by the Stimson
statement. If a pact to confer would
bind us morally to aid Prance against
possible aggression, why was the Sec
retary of State favorable to such a pact
three weeks ago? And if a pact to con
fer would obligate us morally to aid
France why does not the four-power
Pacific pact to confer, under the treaty
of Washington, obligate us morally to
aid Japan?
Yet the American Senate ratified the
four-power Pacific pact on the express
declaration of our Government that we
were not so obligated. Why should the
United States be obligated In one case
and not in the other?
Os these secrets and mysteries no ex
planation is available.
The possibility of reducing the French
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— 1 ■ •
Judge Morton sustained the conten
tion of Farrar's counsel that section 6,
title 2, of the National prohibition act.
under which the Government sought to
convict him, referred only to those
legally entitled to buy and sell liquor
under permits, such as druggists and
hospitals. This section of the act says,
in substance, that no person shall sell,
barter, transport or purchase liquor
without first obtaining a permit.
Judge Morton held further that the
enforcement section of the Volstead act
is section 3, and that this section clearly
eliminates any liability of any kind for
the purchase of liquor.
In his opinion, the Federal Judge
said:
“Not only did Congress carefully ex
clude thre purchaser from the penal pro
visions of the act as originally passed,
but has taken no step to extend Its pro
vision to the purchaser In the 10 years
of legislation which has since Inter
vened.”
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HUSTON DEFENDS
TENNESSEE RIVER
GROUP’S EXPENSES
Senate Lobby Probers Quiz
Ex-President of Improve
ment Body.
PERSONALITIES ENTER
QUIZZING OF WITNESSES
Republican National Committee
Chairman Says Association Rec
ords Satisfied Valley People.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.
In a session of the Senate lobby com
mittee. frequently marked with acrid
clashes between the witness and the
members of the committee, Claudius H.
Huston, chairman of the Republican
national committee, defended today his
former connection with the Tennessee
River Improvement Association.
Despite the remarks hurled at him
by Senator Caraway of Arkansas, chair
man of the committee; Senator Blaine
and Senator Walsh of Montana, Mr.
Huston retained a calm demeanor
throughout the hearing. Occasionally
his replies were as caustic as the com
ments of the committeemen.
Mr. Huston was questioned closely re
garding records of receipts and expendi
tures of the association, of which he
was president until he resigned last Au
gust, when he became chairman of the
Republican national committee. He told
the committee that the expenditures of
the Tennessee River Improvement As
sociation had run from $20,000 to $75,-
000 a year, except in some of its earlier
years, when they were very much less.
Will Try to Get Books.
In reply to many demands from the
committee that the books and records
of the association be presented, Mr.
Huston said that he would do his best
to get them for the committee. He said
that so far as he knew the records of
expenditures for the association had
been kept only on the stubs of the
checks issued. That was the case, he
said, when he served as treasurer for
two years before becoming president of
the association.
Members of the committee expressed
extreme surprise that Mr. Huston, as
treasurer of the association, had kept
no books.
“Would you transact your own busi
ness that way?” Mr. Huston was asked.
The witness replied that his personal
business was more complicated. He
Insisted, however, that he considered
that the entrance on eheck stubs of the
purpose for which money was expended
was a good way of keeping acoounts,
especially for such an association as the
Tennessee River Improvement Associa
tion.
“The people in the Tennessee Valley
were entirely satisfied with the reports
made by the association at its annual
meetings.” said Mr. Huston. "They
were satisfied with the maner in which
the business of the association was car
ried on.”
Waxes Sarcastic.
With considerable sarcasm he added
that If it had been known that the
Senate lobby committee would some
day wish to inquire into the transac
tions of the association, doubtless such
books as would have met the approval
of the committee would have been kept.
Mr. Huston said that he was not
familiar with what the association had
been doing since his resignation and
that only Col. J. W. Worthington, who
has been the executive head of the
association, could give that information.
The committee tried to get Col. Worth
ington before it, but on account of ill
ness he has not yet appeared. Mr.
HUston said that Mr. Worthington was
in the Ford Hospital In Detroit.
Slaps Intimations.
He said that the committee had fre
quently intimated that Worthington
was not ill, but was evading appear
ance before it.
"Either Col. Worthington is ill, or he
is not,” snapped Mr. Huston. “The
committee has the power to subpoena
and bring him before it.”
Senator Caraway called attention to
the fact that at the request of Senator
Brock of Tennessee. Col. Worthington
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MRS. HALLIE ELKINS
PROTESTS SON’S WILL
Charges Son Was Suffering Prom
Severe Illness—Undne Influ
ence Also Alleged.
Mrs. Hallie Davis Elkins, widow of
Stephen B. Elkins, former Senator from
West Virginia, today applied to the Dis
trict Supreme Court for the revocation
of the probate of the will of her son,
Stephen B. Elkins, who died in New
York City October 20. She charges that
her son was suffering from a severe
illness when the will and codicil which
has been received by the epurt were
executed, during which at frequent in
tervals his mind was unsound and ren
dered him incapable of making a valid
will.
Undue influence is also alleged
against Mrs. Evelyn I. Martin of New
York, who under the will is given a life
annuity of SI,OOO a month and by the
codicil gets a fishing lodge in Virginia
valued at $30,000 and Mr. Elkins’ apart
ment in New York City with its con
tents except paintings. Mr. Elkins was
unmarried, it is reported. \
The will and codicil were probated
December 13 and under the law a
caveat must be filed within three
months thereafter. The protest of the
mother is filed just In time, according
to Attorney Robert P. Cogswell, her
counsel.
Davis Elkins, brother of the deceased,
by the terms of the will was named as
executor and besides the annuity to
Mrs. Martin was given the remaining
estate. The will was executed January
28, 1928, and was modified by a codicil
of October 10, 1929, which directs that
Mrs. Martin have the Virginia property
and the New York apartment with its
contents. Mr. Elkins reported that his
i brother owned the Virglhia property,
worth $30,000. and had personal prop
erty estimated at $117,800.
Opposition to the granting of the re-
Jiuest of the mother is expected to come
rom Mrs. Martin, who would lose the
bequests should the will be set aside.
Issues probably will be drawn on mental
Incapacity and undue Influence and
submitted to a iury for decision.
WOMEN OUTLINE
CREED SUPPORTING
18TH AMENDMENT
Mrs. Peabody Presents 14
Points, Adopted Yesterday,
to House Committee.
CONSTITUTION AS WHOLE
SUPPORTED IN DRAFT
Buyer Held Equally Guilty With
Seller in Illicit Transactions
in Liquor.
By the Associated Press.
A “political creed” of the Woman's
National Committee for Law Enforce
ment, outlining 14 points in support of
the eighteenth amendment and the
Constitution as a whole, was presented
at the House judiciary committee pro
hibition hearing today by Mrs. Henry
W. Peabody of Beverly, Mass.
She presented the creed after a score
of women representing national welfare
organizations in rapid succession had
taken the stand one after another and
Indorsed the prohibition laws. They
had argued that the womanhood of
America stood squarely behind the dry
statute.
Mrs. Peabody, who was in charge of
the witnesses, said the creed had been
adopted only yesterday.
The fifth porat of the creed voices
belief that “under the existing act the
buyer is equally guilty with the seller
in illicit transactions in liquor.”
Text of “Political Creed.”
The creed follows:
"1. We believe in the Government of
the United States, based on the Consti
tution, the supreme law of the land, ac
cording to article VI of the Constitu
tion:
“ ‘This Constitution, and the laws of
the United States which shall be made
in pursuance thereof • • • shall be
the supreme law of the land; and the
judges in every State shall be bound
thereby, anything in the constitution
or laws of any State to the contrary
notwithstanding.’
“2. We believe that prohibition of
opium, alcohol and other habit-making
drugs is a necessary protection in this
machine age.
“3. We believe the eighteenth amend
ment to the Constitution, voted by 4#
out of 48 States in the way prescribed,
with a greater majority than any other
amendment, is binding on all States.
"4. We believe in the Volstead act
which has met the test of the Supreme
Court, and limit alcoholic content to
one-half of one per cent. No other
standard would be safe for children and
thoee not innoculated with alcohol.
“5. We believe that under the exist
ing act the buyer is equally guilty with
the seller in illicit transactions in
liquor.
“6. We believe that the economic
gain resulting from the use of billions
of dollars formerly spent in saloons,
speakeasies and liquor for private use
now used lor better homes, clothing,
food, washing and sweeping machines,
automobiles, radio, life insurance, and
bank deposits, justifies this law.
“7. We believe the moral issue makes
this law obligatory for the individual
citizen and the duty of every church
member, and that every church should
teach respect for this law through its
priests and ministers.
Believe in Personal Liberty.
“8. We believe in personal liberty
for women, who have endured personal
slavery through drunken husbands, and
we recommend Paul's interpretation of
liberty to certain eminent educators
and legislators.
“9. We believe in law observance for
the protection of life, property, homes
and human rights. Education in law
observance, necessary and important,
should be supplemented by discipline;
the only education for the lawless and
criminal found largely among the upper
classes and in the underworld.
"10. We believe since ‘law breakers
must not be law makers’ law making
and enforcement departments of our
Government should demand that mem
bers, sworn to protect and defend the
Constitution, either cease attacks on
the Constitution leading to contempt for
law, or relinquishing their office. And
since the first duty of the Government
Is to protect the people from violators
of the law, we call for immediate and
adequate action whatever the cost.
“11. We believe, according to the
Constitution, article 6, that courts of
justice should be relieved of prejudiced
judges, often responsible for the failure
of justice and the breaking down of law
through protecting the criminal rather
than the public.
No Authority for Referendum.
“12. We believe there Is no authority
or precedent for submitting the Con
stitution, as a whole or in part, to a
national referendum.
“13. We believe that the press, which
has been In the past and should be now
a moral and civic asset, ought, without
regard to the personal opinion of owner
and editor, to give fair representation
of the views of law-abiding people and
the Government, rather than continue
attacks on the law which, will not be
repealed, and whose enforcement may
be weakened by statements leading to
crime and disorder.
“14. We believe that in view of the
disloyal and dangerous attitude of men
and women of wealth and influence and
the failure of officials, there should be
law-enforcement groups of citizens In
town, county, State and Nation organ
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-i'd)
JAPANESE OFFICER TRIES
TO KILL SELF OVER FIRE
Attempted Suicide Is Laid to His
Belief He Was Responsible for
Blaze That Hilled 105.
By the Associated Press.
TOKIO, March 12.—Dispatches from
Chlnkal, Korea, today said that Lieut.
Takasakl, adjutant of the naval base
there, holding himself responsible for
the fire Monday in which 105 persons
died, had attempted suicide. He was
prevented by friends from taking his
The tragedy occurred when a patriotic
film ignited while being shown in a
warehouse as part of the empire’s ob
servance of the twenty-fifth anniversary
of the capture of Mukden, Manchuria,
by the Japanese from the Russians, the
blaze spreading to the warehouse. Os
the dead 103 were chieldren.
Japanese naval and military authori
ties of Korea were investigating the
tragedy and court-martial of the re
sponsible officers was li)£ly.
SER
BYRD MAY REVISIT ANTARCTIC
IN QUEST OF ROSS SEA SECRETS
Explorer Hints at New Expedition in
Remark That to Reveal His Plans
Would Create a Sensation.
By the Associated Press.
DUNEDIN, New Zealand. March 12.
The possibility that Rear Admiral
Richard E. Byrd will take another expe
dition Into the Antarctic was foreseen
here today.
Admiral Byrd in an interview said,
“If I were to say what I am going to
do next, my remarks would cause a
sensation.’'
Although the intrepid explorer de
clined to commit himself further, the
trend of events here and feeling among
his party Indicate that he hopes to
return to the Antarctic to make further
explorations east of the Ross Sea.
Although Norwegian and other expe-
GERMAN REICHSTAG
ADOPTSYOUNGPLAN
Also Approves Agreement
Which Regulates Repara
tions Payments to U. S.
By ths Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 12.—The Reichstag
today gave final approval to the Young
plan by a vote of 270 to 192 and then,
by a rising vote, also approved the
Germ an-American agreement by which
Germany’s reparations payments to the
United States are regulated.
The plan was given second read
ing in the Reichstag yesterday by
a vote of 251 to 174 and today’s ap
proval had been looked upon as certain.
Awaits Hindenburg’g Signature.
The measure now only requires Presi
dent von Hindenburg's signature and
publication of the ratification in the
Official Gazette before the plan by
which the financial aftermath of the
World War will be liquidated will be
come law as far as Germany is con
cerned.
The plan becomes effective in Ger
many immediately with the substitution
of the Young plan annuities for the
Dawes plan annuities from the day of
Germany’s ratification.
The plan, however, does not go into
international effect until ratified by the
other powers. It will call for a cessation
of the reparations commission in Ger
many, the withdrawal of the foreign
commissioners from the Reichsbank and
foreign control of the federated rail
ways.
Rated as Momentous Decision.
Passage of the Young plan and its
connected legislation by the Reichstag
marked one of the most momentous
decisions as yet taken by the young
German republic’s lawmakers.
Not only are German reparation pay
ments fixed definitely and finally,
thereby removing a great element of
uncertainty in German economic life,
but a large number of vexing leftovers
from the World War are settled.
More than that, an International
bank has been created whereby the
world’s central bankers are able to
meet regularly and in a spirit of
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MRS. BRYAN’S ASHES LAID
IN GRAVE AT ARLINGTON
Remains Placed Beside Late Hus
band, With Private Ceremonies
Conducted by Dr. Sizoo.
By the Associated Press.
With private ceremonies the ashes of
Mrs. Mary Baird Bryan will be com
mitted late today to a grave beside
that of her late husband, William Jen
nings Bryan, in Arlington Cemetery.
The committal service will be con
ducted by Dr. J. R. Sizoo, pastor of
the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church here, who conducted the funeral
of “the Commoner’’ on July 31, * 1925.
Only Representative Ruth Bryan Owen
of Florida, a daughter, and William
Jennings Bryan, Jr., a son, who brought
the ashes from Hollywood, Calif., and
a few close friends are to attend the
ceremony at the grave.
Mrs. Bryan, who had been an invalid
for 12 years, died January 31, at the
home of her daughter. Mrs. Grace
R. L. Hargreaves, in Hollywood, whom
she had been visiting for the Winter
months. She had been making her
home with Mrs. Owen here.
Funeral services were held In Los
Angelas.
ditions now are working west of the
■ sea, it was pointed out that there are
I still vast territories unexplored, notably
between the Bay of Whales and Decep
’ tion Island, the latter the base of Sir
> Hubert Wilkins in his Antarctic flights.
“I feel under obligations to those who
have donated material to this expedi
tion,” Byrd said, “and all unusued gear
1 will be returned to them.”
Although most members of his expe
dition have left Dunedin on tripe for
fishing or hunting. Admiral Byrd is
rushed with work here in an endeavor
to start for home next Wednesday or
Thursday. The City of New York is on
i the dry dock and the steamer Eleanor
Bolling goes on tomorrow for refitting.
When leaving the British warship
(Continued on Page 2, Column 8.)
I TAFT’S ESTATE
IS LEFT TO WIDOW
SIO,OOO Is Given to Yale
Alumni Fund in Will of
Former President.
The will of William H. Taft, former
President of the United States and
Chief Justice of the United States Su
preme Court, who was buried yesterday,
was filed today for probate. No valua
tion of the estate has yet been disclosed.
The will was executed June 3, 1925,
and is modified by two codicils of April
27, 1927, and of June 1, 1927.
Under the original will, Yale Uni
versity is given SIO,OOO, to be added to
the principal of the alumni university
fund and credited to the class of 1878.
Wendell W. Mischler, his secretary, is
given $5,000 and specific bequests are
made to Margaret McNamara, $1,000;
Annie McNamara, $750; Thomas Hal
pin, $750.
Papers Given to Children.
All the papers, manuscripts, corre
spondence, addresses and copyrights of
the late Chief Justice are given to his
three children for such use as they
deem wise after consultation with the
widow.
All the remaining estate, both real
and personal, in the United States, the
Dominion of Canada and elsewhere of
which Mr. Taft died siezed, is given to
"my dear wife, Helen H. Taft,” abso
lutely. The widow also is named as ex
ecutrix, with request that no bond be
required of her or that she be required
to make any Inventory of the estate.
In the earlier codicil, the late Chief
Justice provides that If any portion of
the SIO,OOO legacy to Yale University
(Continued on Page 2, Column 7.)
LINDY’S MOTHER MAY
LOSE SCHOOL POST
Detroit Education Board Coniiden
Order Dismissing Alien and Non-
Resident Teachers.
By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, March 12.—The Detroit
Board of Education had under advise
ment today a proposal to discharge all
of its employes who are aliens and all
those who live outside the corporate
limits of Detroit.
Included among the latter is Mrs.
Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh, mother of
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who is a
teacher of chemistry at Cass Technical
I High School. Mrs. Lindbergh is a resi
dent of Grosse Point, a contiguous
suburb of the city.
The names of Mrs. Lindbergh and
785 other teachers who live outside the
city were reported to the board last
night by Supt. Frank Cody, who made
a residence and citizenship survey of
employes on orders from the board. The
survey was called immediately after the
city council had ordered dismissal of all
aliens on public pay rolls under its
Jurisdiction.
Mr. Cody found that the board em
ploys 294 aliens, of whom 29 are teach
ers. All of the alien teachers, except an
exchange instructor from Oxford Uni
versity, have applied for citizenship.
The board took no action last night
The only evening paper
in Washington with the
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service.
Yesterday’s Circulation, 114,018
UP) Maan* Associated Press.
COMPLETE DOHENY
BRIBERYCASE JURY
Three Women and Nine Men
Selected From List of
33 Prospects.
A jury of three women and nine men
was selected after three hours and a half
of examining today in Criminal Division
2 of the District Supreme Court to
sit in judgment of Edward L. Doheny,
California oil magnate, who is on trial
for alleged bribery in giving a loan of
SIOO,OOO to Albert B. Pall, former Sec
retary of the Interior, in return for a
lease on the Elk Hills, Calif., naval oil
reserves.
The jury was selected by 2:25, after
the Government and defense had exer
cised nine peremptory challenges each
and excusing four other prospective
jurors from a list of 33 names, the
largest list ever examined in the vari
ous oil trials.
The Jurors are:
No. 1. Luther W. James, 39 years old,
colored, automobile mechanic, 148 U
street.
No. 2. Charles P. McWilliams, 45
, years old, A. Sc P. store manager, 1450
' V street.
No. 3. Clarence Canter, 46 years old,
Washington Railway Sc Electric Co. con
ductor, 214 Fourteenth street.
No. 4. Archibald Gill, 52 years old,
chauffeur, 3501 Newark street.
No. 5. Mrs. Chrissie Vollmer, 49 years
old, housewife, 1117 Fourth street north
east.
No. 6. Isaac Dengler, 43 years old,
Franklin Laundry worker, 2205 Eight
eenth street.
No. 7. Miss Jane Yeagle, 26 years old,
clerk with the National Geographic So
ciety, 2101 New Hampshire avenue.
No. 8. R. Bernard Beckert, 33 years
old, Raleigh Hotel clerk, 2123 Twelfth
street northeast.
No. 9. Emory H. English. 45 years
old. unemployed office worker, 5023
Sherier place.
No. 10. Miss Margaret Mannix. 23
years old, clerk with the National Geo
graphic Society, 1335 Sixteenth street.
No 11. Conrad Fitts, 47 years old,
stone worker, 4528 Fessenden street.
No. 12. Chesley H. Ray, 41 years old,
general agent for the Norfolk Sc Wash
ington Steamboat Co., 304 A street
southeast. ,
Justice Hit* Adjourns Court.
Justice William Hits, who presided at
the previous trial when Fall was con
victed on charge of receiving the al
leged loan from Doheny, adjourned
court Immediately after the jury was
sworn in. He announced that sessions
would be held from 9:30 o’clock in the
morning until 4 o’clock in the after
noon in an effort to expedite the trial,
which may last for two or possibly
three weeks.
Doheny, who sat beside his counsel,
carefully kept in touch with the pro
ceedings as the 12 men and women were
being selected. Like the attorneys in
the case, he had a prepared list of the
tailsmen called for duty.
The court room scarcely was filled
when Justice William Hits, who pre
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MUSSOLINI 1/TaKES CALL
ON U. S. AMBASSADOR
Is Accompanied by Undersecretary
Giunta and Discusses Wide
Range of Subjects.
By the Associated Press.
ROME, March 12.—A visit of Premier
Mussolini to the home of United States
Ambassador Garrett has just come to
light. It is the first such call the
premier has made in several years.
Upon becoming head of the cabinet
in 1922 he asked that he not be invited
to luncheon and dinners at the em
bassies, as he was crowded with work.
Accompanied only by Undersecretary
Giunta l.e went to Ambassador Garrett's
home in Rospigliosi palace, and speak
ing in English discussed a wide range
of subjects with him. They varied from
topics in Rome to political trends in the
United States. He rtayed for a con
siderable time.
2,000 PENNIES, SAVED TO BUY A CAR,
ARE SPENT TO PAY SPEEDER’S FINE
Youth Could Have Purchased Machine in 25 Yean,
but He’s Set Back 8 Months.
By th« Associated Press.
DETROIT, March 12.—Victor Clevers,
18, truck driver, was saving pennies to
buy an automobile. According to con
servative estimates, he would have been
able to purchase a small car In about
25 years.
But Victor was haled Into court (or
speeding. He knew how he was going to
plead, and assumed oorracjly that the
TWO CENTS.
VOTE FOR DISTRICT
IS URGED ON HOUSE
BY COMMISSIONERS
Indorse Resolution to Give
City Representation in
Congress.
UNANIMOUS APPROVAL
VOICED BY D. C. HEADS
See Beneficial Results From Fro*
posal to Give Capital Legis
lative Voice.
The District Commissioners today re
ported favorably to the House Judiciary
committee on the joint resolution pro
viding national representation tor the
District of Columbia. The Commis
sioners say that it Is their “carefully
considered opinion” that the proposal
“applies a fundamental American prin
ciple to the residents of the District of
Columbia and is In strict conformity
with the constitutional provision re
garding the seat of the Government.”
The joint resolution proposes an
amendment to the Constitution giving
Congress the power to admit District
citizens to the status of State citizens
to elect Senators, Representatives and
electors and of suing and being sued In
Federal courts.
I Letter of Commissioners.
The full text of the letter, which wss
addressed to Representative George 8.
Graham of Pennsylvania, chairman of
the House judiciary committee is as '
follows: 7:
“Sir: >
“In response to your letter of the .
fifth instant the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia, have the honor ‘
to report on House Joint Resolution, 64,
Seventy-first Congress, first session, that
they have given the proposed bill care- j
ful consideration and unanimously ap
prove the proposed legislation.
“This joint resolution proposes an
amendment to the Constitution giving
Congress the power to admit to the
status of citizens of a State the resi
dents of the District of Columbia for
the sole purpose of representation In •
Congress by one or two Senators and
by Representatives In the House of Rep
resentatives as determined by the extent
of population and presidential electors
equal In number to.their aggregate rep- '
resentation In the House and Senate
and for the further purpose of suing "
and being sued In the courts of the
United States.
Would Aid District.
“It is the carefully considered opinion .
of the Commissioner* that there is every
reason for granting the Congress this
additional power in. respect to the resi
dents of the District or Columbia to fee
exercised in Its own time and In ac
cordance with such subsequent legisla
tive action that it may desire. In our
judgment there exists no sound reason
for withholding such increase of power,
and the effect on the District of Co
lumbia it appears to us would be bene- '
ficlal.
“A careful study of the proposition
Indicates the following conclusions:
“1. That the passage of this joint .
resolution and any subsequent legisla
tion thereunder makes no change in the
local government.
“2. This is In no sense a partisan ,
political issue as is evidenced by the ■
fact that local leaden of both major
parties are outspoken in Its advocacy.
“3. The proposal applies a funda
mental American principle to the rail
dents of the District of Columbia and
is In strict conformity with the conitt
tutional provision regarding the seat of
the Government. The proposed amend
ment carries out the principle that In
a republic all parts should be repre
sented through their own elected rep
resentatives and Is entirely consistent
with the exercise by the Congress of
exclusive legislative control of the Dis
trict of Columbia. The adoption of
this proposal would not reduce In any
degree the exclusive legislative power of
Congress, but on the other hand it
gives to the residents of the District
voting representation in the Congress
which Is to exercise that exclusive legis
lative control.
Both Would Gain.
“4. It is believed that both Congress
and the District of Columbia will gain
much through the better facilities for
authoritatively making known the needs
of the residents on both local and na
tional matters as there Is now no actual
official channel available for such pur
pose, and It is our belief that It Is only
through the elected representatives of a
people that their views and desires may
be directly reflected.
“In conclusion, reference Is made to
the very comprehensive report of the
Senate committee on the District of
Columbia upon this identical resolution
(Senate report No. 507, Sixty-Seventh
Congress, second session). This com
mittee. after a hearing and close study,
registered its approval and recom
mended that the proposed constitution
al amendment be passed and submitted
to the Legislatures of the several States
for ratification. The Commissioners
heartily concur In the findings and
recommendations of the said Senate
committee on the District of Columbia,
a copy of which report is transmitted
herewith.
“Yours very truly,
(Signed),
“PROCTOR L. DOUGHERTY,
“President, Board of Commissioners of
the District of Columbia.”
Ex-Mayor It Vindicated.
TACOMA, Wash., March 13.
Melvin G. Tennent, who resigned from
the mayor’s office a year ago, charging
lack of co-operation In the council, was
re-elected to that office by a plurality
of more than 5,000 In yesterday’s elec
tion over Fred Shoemaker, legislator
and one time city councilman.
fine would be S2O. So he took 2,050 pen
nies with him in a bag, 50 extra Just In
case of a mistaken count.
Judge Sherman D. Callender yester
day announced the S2O fine and then
ruled that pennies were acceptable.
Victor was set back eight months In
his quest of a car. He had saved 3,000
pennies in a year.
It required 12 minutes for the court
cashier to count the line namsgr.
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