The Washington Post
December 7, 1926

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The only newspaper in Washington with the Associated Press news every morning in the year. not so cold today, morrow: east winds. $1; lowest, 25. es ee Weather—Increasing cloudiness and . tonight and tomorrow; warmer to- | moderate Temperature yesterday — Highest, | followed by rain northeast and | : P r he ashi int \ } : ) . ¢ | Weather details on page 12. NQ. 18,436. ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER POSTOFFICE, WASHINGTON; D. C. WASHINGTON: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7%, 1926.-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES of. COPYRIGHT, 1926 RY THE WASHINGTON POST CO. TWO CENTS. /POST-SCRIPTS By | GEORGE ROTHWELL BROWN . a ae “The man who gits his edukashun from the daily papers,” says Josh Billings, “if he happens to miss one, has lost all he iz going to kno for the next 24 hours.” * ° * * The year draws on to its close dripping with fat and the American people have to hire private secre- taries to collect their dividends. As Mr. Dooley, of Archey road, remark- ed. “Th’ defeat iv Humanity be Pros- perity was wan iv th’ results iv th’ iliction.”’ Forty years ago Grover Cleveland found himself with a $300,000,000 surplus in the Treasury, and it wor- ried him so he couldn’t sleep nights until he had thought up tariff revi- sion as the best way to get rid of it. The surplus is still where it was in 1886—and so is the Democratic party. Three bandits stick up one of our leading bakers and the loafers get away with the dough. King Ferdinand nowadays regards any operation as slight that doesn’t involve an amputation of the crown. il Duce will teach Italy to play— Thus once did Cromwell strut his stuff a day. Hail! Mussolini, while we garlands bring— You did not have to chop away a hing. The House prepares in a breath, so to speak, to honor the memory of “Uncle Joe’”’ Cannon, and restore to ge of power and prestige the insurgents” who tore the old czar h-om his throne. John M. Nelson, ringleader in the revolt against the Speakership sixteen years ago, can Bardly wait to get his chairmanship! “And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.”’ * = > * An historic licker charge is nolle Mr. Brandon seems to have considerable influence with the Governor. . = + . prossed in Alabama. The government at Canton has reached the point where if it will just stand still for a minute Great Britain can recognize it. * e s + It’s all very polite and full of sen- .. atorial courtesy and all that sort of thing for Senator Willis to offer Senator Ernst one of his mints, but how did such a stalwart dry happen to have ’em with him? The Anti- saloon league ought to look into this. . +. = - That Republican majority in the Senate recalls John Sharp Will- ia.ns’ story about the old Mississippi lady during the civil war, who so continually darned her silk stockings with cotton that by the time Lee sur- rendered they were all cotton. “But,”’ concluded the famous raconteur, “‘so powerful was her imagination that she always referred to them as ‘my silk stochings.’ ’’ . + + . The mining congress should prove most diverting to those who are in- terested in deep stuff. * 7 . . The strikes, riots, robberies, out- rages and general disorders in China are encouraging eviderice that our celestial friends are rapidly ap- proaching the point where they are capable of self-government. ~ + - 2 , [t seems that the 50-room mansion _Lendon presented to Consuelo anderbilt by her father is dbout to e divorced from the Duke of Marl- borough. Senators Curtis and Robinson, and Representatives Tilson and Garrett take a taxi up to the White House and notify President Coolidge that the trouble has begun. ~ * co) * Senator Simmons wears a black skull cap to the Capitol as a pro- tection against poison ivy, but just whom does he suspect of getting ready to hand him a bouquet? . + + © The Senator will get over a little thing like poison ivy, but if this had been a sign that he was for “‘Brother Charlie” Bryan in 1928 he probably mever would recover. Mussolini ionpacia sa tei on Italian ‘eachelors, but is most chivalrous then it comes to the spinsters. It’s a wise dictator who knows when to - quit dictating. “The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast.” SWfeven vessels are wrecked in a storm which sweeps New England. When the Pilgrim Fathers finally got ashore they probably thought that coast was Heaven. . * a ] ; - Comptroller General McCarl re- _ Forts that. “millions of dollars are being expended illegally by the gov- ernment.” What! With MeCarl on Ch eedatnd Ae ae | NY _ It is indeed gratifying to note that AVY. PLANS SPARED \ can be produced in AO OIL TESTIMONY DF ROBISON To ENDED $90,000,000 Profit To U.S. Believed by Him in Doheny Contract. CALLING OF WILBUR NOW NOT EXPECTED Petroleum Company Shown Not Bidding Because It Had | Lost in War Work. | By ALBERT W. FOX. Cross-examination of Rear Admiral | J. K. Robison by Owen J. Roberts, of | government's special counsel, featured | yesterday’s proceedings in the Fall-| Doheny conspiracy trial but the ques- tion of the navy’s war plans in 1921-22 was not pressed. As a result, the in- ternational dynamite involved in the relationship between the protection of the Pacific and the Doheny Pearl Har- bor contract was protected from further sparks and it may not be now necessary for the defense to call Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, whose Official | order sealed the lips of Admiral Robi- | son on Saturday. Admiral Robison left the stand at 2:45 p. m. after Roberts and Atlee | Pomerene had punctuated his FORIESCS | examination by frequent objections, which blocked his testimony concern- ing navy oil contracts and the method | of awarding them prior to the Doheny | contracts and leases. The defense did succeed in getting before the jury Robison’s statement that he believed the government would make $50,000,000 through its contract with the Doheny Pan-American Co. And Wilton J. Lambert, counsel for Fall. succeeded in bringing out the fact that Japan had not ratified the Washington conference treaties prior to the Decem- | ber 11 contracts and that the policy | of the Navy Department was not to | divuige how much oil it had or was| going to have either at Pearl Harbor | or along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. | Judge Sustains Lambert. Roberts objected when Lambert asked Robison if the naval reserves were not originally set aside for the use of the navy but Justice Hoehling upheld Lam- bert and permitted the witness to answer. “Yes,” replied Robison. | “That wes during the disarmament! conference wasn't it?” continued Lam- bert. | “Do you know of the report made by Secretary Fall to the President of the United States while the disarmament conference was in session, referring to the oil situation in Hawaii?” “Yes, sir, the oil situation in Hawaii,” replied the witness. This was the only pointed reference madé to delicate international matters by the defense attorneys who have 50 far sought to stress the fact that navy war plans were responsible for the Doheny contracts and leuses. The gov- ernment’s special counsel, on the other hand, referred to the Washington dis- armament conference in order to make their point that the need for sccrecy about war plans had been minimizcd at that time by the very fact that the disarmament conference was in session. But counsel for the defense main- tain that it would not have made a favorable impression on foreign powers if they had known of the Pearl harbor project and other navy war plans being pressed to completion at the very time the disarmament conference was in session. Character Witnesses Heard. After Roberts completed his cross- examination, there were a few charac- ter witnesses placed on the stand icr Doheny and the wind-up for the day was featured by a series of objections by government counsel follewed by conferences of attorneys who huddled (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4, COLUMN 2.) FALL, SINCLAIR LOSE TEAPOT DOME APPEAL Supreme Court Refuses to Re- lieve Defendants of Con- spiracy Indictments. (By the Associated Press.) The government's oil counsel won an- other point in their long legal battle yesterday when the Suprerhe Court re- fused to grant Harry F. Sinclair and Al- bert B. Fall any relief from the crim- inal conspiracy proceedings vending against them. 2 These proceedings are somewhat sim- ilar to the case against Fall and Edward L. Doheny, now on trial here, except thet in the Sinclair case the lease in- volved in that. by which the Sinclair in- terests took over Teapot Dome. _ against Fall and Sinclair had been re- turned the defense demurred in the local court on the ground that an em- ploye of the Department of Justice had JUDGE ADOLPH A HOEHLING REAR ADMIRAL a, oS. ROBISON ALBERT B FALL Owen ROBERTS Memory Sketches of Figures in the Fall-Doheny Trial. AOUMINIA IS NURMED Notable Audience Attends BUSTWNILS 5, HURTS § QVER KING'S OPERKTION Opening of Capital Opera \T PLNT OF OU PONTS Public Uneasiness Not Allayed | Jewels Flash as Stars Sing “Pique Dame” in Russian Sefore Brilliant Assemblage From Diplomatic, by Doctor’s Optimism; | Family Near. | a5 : | CAROL BARRED BY QUEEN | } Bucharest, Roumania, Dec. 6 (By A. P.).—Former Crown Prince Carol must remain away from Roumania. A fami- | ly council composed of Queen Marie of Roumania, and her daughters, Queen Marie of Jugosiavia; former Elizabeth of Greece, and Princess} Ileana, and Prince Nicolas, has decided ' not to invite Carol to return, the king's | condition not warranting it. Several doctors remained in the pal- ace over-night. Latest reports from! the bedside say the king is “doing as | well as could be expected for a man of | his age, whose physique is enfeebied | by long illness.” A minor operation on King Ferdi-| nand was French surgeon, Prof. Hartmann. : more than a quarter of an hour was! occupied in performing the operation. | Only the age of the patient justifics giving the name “operation” to the; minor incision which was made today,) one of the doctors gremarked. Official information was to the,effect that the incision was nearly an inch and half long. Queen Marie, Princess Deana and Prince Nicolas awaited the outcome in|} ' Queen | (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN 5.) MOTORIST IS SHOT They Make No Attempt at Robbery. . J. C. Coughlin, 26 years old, of Hyatts- ville, Md., was shot in the neck by hold- up men a short distance from Hyatts- ville last night while en route to Wash- ington in an automobile. He was taken to Casualty hospital, where it was re- ported that his condition was believed not serious. ' According to the story told police, Coughlin was on his way to the city with a friend when in the middle of a lonely stretch of road just out of Hyatts- ville his car was overtaken by another that forced him in a ditch. The machine stopped, two «men jumped out and ordered Coughlin and the youth with him to throw up their hands. They got out of their car and ay fight ensued. One of the men in the holdup began firing, and Coughlin was wounded in the neck. The men entered their car and fied. Police offered the theory that the men may have been hijackers who mistook the car for one containing liquor, since apparently no effort was made at robbery. Sacasa Is Nicaraguan President, Says Vaca (By the Associated Press.) Notice that J. B. Sacasa, former vice oo | Men Believed Hijackers, as ‘occupied as an apartment house, were Official and Social Life. hate Pounds of Powder Lost in Explosion Opposite Wil- mington, Del. ee re ee ; | | Tschaikowsky's little known opera, | ceive an ovation. Altogether it was an|2 BUILDINGS ARE BURNED “Pique Dame,” was sung for the first t:me in Washington last night and for the second time in America in Russian at the new auditorium by the Washing- ton National Opera Company assisted auspicious opening of the Washington for the future success of the remainder of its opera program. The various acts had the atmosphere National Opera’s season and ah augur, | Penns Grove, N. J., Dec. 6 (By A. P.). ‘ Pive workmen were killed and nine in- jured in an explosion today of 2,800 by a group of operatic stars, including | of novelty for practically all of the pounds of powder at the Du Pont tenor, reputation. A representative audience, from officialdom, the diplomatic corps and society generally, as well as the music lovers of the city, assembled to witness the debut of the opera and the debut of the stars in Washington. | came to the audience with spontaneous g.1om drawn /rather than anticipated charm. It is said the opera has not been sung for fifteen years. Its other presentation in America was at the Metropolitan Opera house, March, 1910, when it was sung in German with Destinn, Slezak and | Dmitri Smirnov, the famous Russian | audience, as nearly every one was to- Powder Works at Carney's Point, N. J., and Elena Rekowska, prima/tally unfamiliar with either the score opposite Wilmington, Del. donna soprano, also of high European! or the music. The gems of the opera| The dead were: William Tonden, N. J.; Ezra Herman, Deepwater, N. J.; John Kelly, Penns Grove; George | Wivel, Penns Grove; Winifield Blaess, |Carney’s Point. | The injured, all of whom are expect- ;ed to recover, John are. Graham, The boxes and main floor presented | Gluck in the cast. Last night's produc-'Samuel Freas, Walter Keen, George a brilliant spectacle rivaling in gen-/tion in the native tongue of its com- ;Mills, John Loveless, Ralph Morris, of Weautiful gowns end jewels. Many compliments were paid Edouard | #50. sang in Russian, it usually giving! An innovation was’ that the chorus performed today by the eral effect the gala nights at the Met- | poser, was monumental for that reason’ a)rreq Bradway, Fred H. Borden, James - -Not!TOpolitan in New York in the display |@8 well as for others. | Kelley. Further explosions were feared for a Albion, general director, and his wife,|the ensemble work in English rather|"!™e Pecause of the heavy blast. The Peggy Albion, teeth mel ; a + for their enterprise in| than in the general language of the!®*Piosion was followed by fire that giving Washington this novel operatic | Particular opera. The effect was quite |Swept quickly through two small treat. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 13, COLUMN 83.) Homes Dynamited; 12 Families Escape Pittston, Pa., Lec. 6 (By A. P.).—Two three-story dwellings were dynamited early today. Twelve families escaped The apartment house of Nicholas Marino, a former policeman, and Riz- zo’s meat market, across the street, also AS TWO HOLD UP CAR [without serious injury. wrecked, and the structure adjoining Marino’s home was badly damaged. Marino could give no reason for the dynamiting. Ford Plants Resume Following Inventory Detroit, Mich., Dec. 6 (By A. P.).— All departments of the Ford Motor Co. factories here resumed work today after a brief shut-down for inventory, officials announced. The company expects to be operatng again on a full-time schedule before Christmas. COUPLE LEAVE NOTES AND DROWN IN SURF Mining Expert and Woman Die Together Swimming at Tampa. - Tampa, Fla., Dec. 6 (By A. P.).—Lewis|° F. Sweeney, 44, New York mining ex- pert, and Mrs. I. Maingot, 36, Port of Trinidad, were drowned yesterday, while swimming in the surf here. Each left a note naming relatives to be notified in case of accident. Sweeney, formerly secretary to J. F. Stevens, who preceded Gen. Goethals as M. L. Robb, a friend. While . iced to be in ep- = . J a 4 . » . te a ’ 4 . #4 ice . wu > ‘Consuelo Vanderbilt Mansion to Be Sold _ London, Dec. 6 (By A. P.).—Sunder- | land house, the magnificent 650-room | mansion which was presented to Con- | Suelo Vanderbilt by her father on her Marriage to the Duke of Marlborough in 1895, will be sold and probably will become the home of a new automobile club. The sale price is reporied to have been set at between £70,000 and £80,000, ‘Which is much below the cost of the house, one of the most magnificent mansions in England. (The marriage of Consuelo Vander- bilt and the Duke of Marlborough re- cently was annulled by the Roman Catholic Church on the grounds that Miss Vanderbilt had beén coerced into the marriage. The couple was divorced in 1920 and each has remarried since then.) RAIN TO ELIMINATE CITY'S HEAVY SNOW Weather Man Promises High- er Temperature to End Cap- ital’s Sledding. The next offering from the skies will be rain, according to the weather bu- reau. It is expected to fall tonight. Today, the forecsater said, will be cloudy and warmer. - ‘The mantle of snow that enwrapped Washington Sunday was viewed with mingled feelings yesterday last night. To the youngsters who had sleds it was a blessing. But to grown-ups that hed to wade through slush after the sun came out it was quite the ' | ! ! } } At the close of the second act | $904, although Russian, spoken or sung | Pul!dings. Albion was called to the stage to re- ! | Men working in or near the buildings ' narrowly escaped with their lives. | Those injured were carried out by | fellow workmen, treated at the plant emergency hospital, and then sent to } ithe hospital here. KIDNAPING SCHOONER IS SEIZED BY MEXICO U. S. Dry Agents Who Were Taken From New Orleans as Ship Fled, Are Safe. New Orleans, La., Dec. 6 (By A. P.). which kidnaped J. B. Matthews, assist- ant prohibition administrator of the gulf zone, and Petty Officer Handley, Index to Today’s Issue. Pages. i—Navy Plans Spared at Lease Triel. Congress Opens; Bribe Charge Filled Notable Audience Attends Opera. GOULD BRIBE CHARGE Roumania Alarmed Over King. Blast Kills 56, Hurts 9. 2—Use of War Gases Opposed. Auto Tag Control Assailed. Strikes and Riots Rage in China. 4—-Robison Completes Testimony. 5—-Ask Death for Mail Bandits. 6——Editorials. 7-8—6oclety. 9—Tacna Agreement Gets Setback. 10—The Post Housekeeper. Daily Radio Programs. 11—Italian Spinsters Escape Tax. Shoals Lease Farm Group Issue. 12—Weather and Vital Statistics. 14——-Magazine Page. 15-16-21—-Financial. 17-18-19—Sports. 20—The Post’s Funny Folk. 22-25—Classified Advertising. 23—-The Legal Record. 24—The News in Pictures. Commissioners Press 6 Items. Paving Levy Held Unfair. UTILITIES MEASURE PADDED; LIBERALZE ANNUITY LAW ASKED Bill for Construction of Stadium Here Seating 100,000 Offered. Final passage was effected yesterdey of the bill creating a new public util- ities commission and the measure now goes to the President. At the same time, Representative Lehlbach, of New Jersey, introduced a bill providing for further liberalization of government employes’ retirement, and Representative Gallivan, of Mas- sachusetts, submitted a méasure au- thorizing the construction of a stadium here to seat 100,000 persons. Aside from Mr. Lehlbach’'s retirement bill, Representative Campbell, of Penn- sylvania, introduced one providing that regardless of what the retirement an- nuities are, 50 per cent of them are ‘o continue to the dependents of bene- ficiaries after death. The utilities measure, providing for two members not connected with the District government end the engineer commissioner, together with a people's counsel, was passed at the last session but was not engrossed. The necessary final touches were put to it yesterday. the President. Carries Salaries of $7,500. The civilan commissioners, to be appointed by the President, are to serve terms of three years each at annual salaries of $7,500. Th!s also will be the pay of the people’s counsel, for which office William McK. Clayton, long iden- tified with the utilittes fights of the Federation of Citizens Associations, seems to be slated. There is a provision in the bil] that one of its members should be appointed for a term of two years commencing last July 1, as it was thought the Dill would have been definitely passed by that time. This, however, according to legal authorities who have examined the measure, will not affect its passage at this time. Mr. Lehlibach’s retirement bill lows in the main the measure which ployes’ organizations at the last ses- sion. It would use the figure 40 as the divisor in computing the annuities in- stead of 45, however, which would make the graduating annuities attainable under its provisions higher up to the maximum of $1,200. The bill also car- ries the optional retirement feature at , the end of 30 years’ service. The em- | ployes would contribute 34, per cent | as they are now doing under the terms lof the bill passed at the last session ‘which makes possible a maximum an- nuity of $1,000. The French rum schooner Arsene J.,| Mr. Campbell's is a separates proposal designed to make retirement benefits (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5, COLUMN 6G.) after the officers had captured the boat, of customs officers in Puerto, Mexico, 2 | Cruz. . | First word of the safety of the gov- | |ernment representatives was received | here late tonigi:t in a cablegram from | Matthews to O. D. Jackson, adminis- trator. The message made plain that Handley also was safe. The cablegram follows: “Arrived here today 10 a. m. with Arsene J, and crew. Handley from coest guard with me. Customs officer has schooner in custody. Crew of schooner in penalty; ‘ Took us out of intended course. Acting American Con- sul J\ Starks. Cable instructions his care.” ' Fenda Chacon Wins Peaceful _ Guatemala Election has been retaken after a week's search. The schooner which made off with the ' coast guardsmen tonight is in custody | small port 100 miles southeast of Vera | eve AS DRY FINE IS PAID Member of Brandon’s Hunting Party Claims Ownership .- Of Seized Liquor,’ ‘Bay Minnette, Ala., Dec. 6 (By A. P.). Charges of violating the prohibition law against Gov. W. W. Brandon, seven of his friends and @ negro servant were nolle prossed in county court here to- day after Jack Daniels, of Birmingham, the ninth member of the governor's party taken in a raid on a fishing camp where he was a guest, had pleaded guilty to ownership of thirteen quarts of whisky seized'in the camp. Daniels was fined 6250 and costs, whereupon the other cases were dis- missed on recommendation by Solicitor Hall in a ‘trial which lasted only 45 minutes. , | Gov. Brandon and four of his co- défendants did not appear in court. William H. Castleman, Louisville busi- It wil become low as soon as signed by) fol- | | wes supported by the government em- | ' The Republicans believed ai GOVERNOR CLEARED tnvoivea im tne LAID BEFORE SENATE “Ese AS CONGRESS OPENS Challenge by Walsh, of Montana, Is Surprise to Republicans. LOWER HOUSE SEATS President’s Annual Message Expected to Be Sent to Capitol Today. A brief flare-up accompanying the seating of Senator Arthur R. Gould, Republican, of Maine, which will be revived today, marked the otherwise tranquil and routine opening of Con- gress yesterday. The Senate seated its five new mem- bers and adjourned in less than 30 minutes, out of respect to the late Sen- ators Cummins, of Iowa, and Fernald, of Maine. It took the House 15 or 20 minutes longer to call its lengthy roll, then it made known that it, too, Was ready for work, and adjourned, out of memory to the two senators, seating meanwhile its four new mem- | bers. | President Coolidge was notified that | Congress was ready to receive his mes- sage by a committee composed of ‘Senators Curtis and Robinson, major- ity and minority leaders in the Senate. and Representatives Tilson and Gar- rett, party leaders in the House. It 1s j}expected the President's message will | be delivered to the Capitol today by messenger. The mere fact the House had a ses- sion, however, opened the bill hopper, which long after dark had the bill room clerks grappling with its contents. The attack on the new Matne senator appeared unexpected to the Republi- cans and it is not believed more than three or more Democrats knew of it. As Gould, tall and ruddy and with | graying touches to his brown hair, | stood before the Vice President to be sworn in, Senator Walsh, Democrat, af charges concerning him he believed should not go unnoticed by the Senate. Whereupon the newcomer was sub- jected, in the presence of the crowded galleries and amid a general atmo- sphere of amenities, to a recitation of |the charge repeated in his campaign that he had bribed a former Canadian | prime minister. Mrs. Gould Hears Charges. The recitation was embodied in a | resolution which the Montana senator | offered providing that while Goxld be | permitted to take the oath in the ab- | sence of any official information on the charges before the Senate, the privi- _leges and elections committee be di- | rected to investigate. Mrs. Gould sat | in the gallery. | Standing before the dais with him | were Senators Wa!sh, of Massachusetts; | Hawes, of Missouri; Stewart. of Iowa, | and Robinson, of Indiana, a!so waiting lto take the oath, and Senators Curtis, ‘majority leader; Robinson, of Arkan- | cas, minority leader; Gillett, of Maessa- chusetts, and Hale, of Maine, who were | escorting them. | Senator Curt!s promptly mede the point of order that the oath-taking | ceremony could not be interrupted, a point that may mean much in connec- tion with the Democrats’ planned et- tack on Vare and Smith, but Senator Moses, of New Hampshire, - ¥% ie ve , efi ae * as wy aa a ial 5 ¢ . , = saeigynt co ty ae & od ati sn y me FOUR AND UPPER FIVE . Montana, rose and said there were some , cae