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Evening star., 1924-05-05
STRENGTH OF NAVY
OBJECT OF INQUIRIES
Britten and Rogers Seek to Secure
Comparative Data on
Condition.
ALARMED BY REPORT
Fear U. S. Not Keeping Strength
Allowed by Treaty.

With the purpose of ascertaining
the present strength of the United
States Navy, especially as compared
with the navies of Great Britain and
Japan, two resolutions were intro
duced in the House today.
Representative Britten of Illinois,
ranking Republican on the naval
committee, proposes that the Navy
Department transmit to Congress a
report covering twenty-seven points
while Representative Rogers, Re
publican, Massachusetts, offers a
terse resolution OF inquiry. Both de-
ciared they were acting as result
OF the recent report OF Admlrai
Coontz. commander-in-chief OF the
battle fleet. in which deficiencies in
the Navy were pointed out.
Outlines Resolution.
Outlining his resolution. Mr.. Brit
ten said Ii would "once more call
to the attention of the country the
shocking state of our unpreparednesS
in a naval sense"
Just imagine" he declared in
statement, spending $175,000,OOO over
a period of years for submarine con-
struction only to find that we have
not single ship that is worth
darn,
If il takes the government ten
years TO build a useless submarine,
how long will it require to build
good one?
Il am certain our Navy is not on a
parity with England's and l am not
so sure that Japan is very far be-
hind us. Notwithstanding our right
under the Washington conference to
be nearly twice her size.
Our greatest necessity is proper
aviation to accompany the fleet. Yet
We are taking i've or SIX years TO
build plane carriers which should be
constructed in three"
Strength of Other Fleets.
The Britten resolution not only
touches on the strength Of the Amer
lean Navy, but seeks Information
from the Navy Department as to
strength in various particulars, OF
the British and Japanese naYieS.
Representative Rogers declared that
the friends of the American Navy
have recently become greatly alarm
ed at the disclosures concerning the
physical condition of our war vessels,
as well as at the inadequacy in num-
really is being maintained at the
strength agreed upon at the Wash
ington conference, he added, appre
hension can be dismissed.
But If we are not" he added, lit
is incumbent upon the administration
and Congress to make good the de
ficiencies. 1t is as fundamental a
policy of the American nation to
maintain the 5-5-3 treaty navy ratio
as il is to maintain the Monroe doc
trine. Inactivity by the adminiStra-
tion or by Congress in this vital
matter should not and will not be
tolerated by the American people"
Evening star., 1924-05-05
FINNEY TESTIFIES
BEFORE OIL JURY
Officials of Tank Construction
Company Also Are
Called.

Officials Of the J. G. White En-
gineering Company of New York, and
Assistant Secretary F'inney of the In
terror Department, were called as
witnesses today before the special
grand jury which is inquiring into
criminal charges growing out of the
Senate oil inquiry.
The White Company is building un-
der contract with e. l. Doheny's
Pan-American Petroleum and Trans
port Company oil tanks for the Navy
at Pearl Harbor. Hawaii, which the
Pan-American company is required to
construct under its lease of naval re-
serve No. l in California part of
this tankage already has been COM
pleted and Doheny has announced
that the remainder will be con-
structed irrespective of the govern
ment's suit for the annulment of all
contracts his company entered into
with Albert r. Fall and Edwin DENLY.
Secretary Finney several times has
anpeared before the Senate oil com
rIittee. He testified there that Fall
had told him Harry F. Sinclair was
to arrange TO take care of all claims
in Teapot Dome and later evidence
was adduced in an effort to show there
was a conspiracy in this connection.
He also told of the secrecy that at
tended the leasing negotiations
Evening star., 1924-05-05
RADIO PATENT GIVEN
De FOREST BY COURT
Declared to Be Inventor of Audion.
Patent Commissioner Ruling
Reversed.

Lee De Forest Of New York was de-
clared today by the District Court
of Appeals as entitled TO priority as
the inventor of the audion as a
means of producing sustained cleo
trical oscillations in transmission by
radio or otherwise.
The opinion of the appellate court
reverses the finding of the commits
sioner of patents, who had awarded
priority to Edwin H. Armstrong.
Claims to be the inventor were also
made in the patent office and on ap-
peal by Alexander Meissner and
Irving Langmuir.
In reaching the decision of the
Court of Appeals Justice Van Orsde Ell
says the question was one of fact
merely as to whether De Forest, who
admittedly first conceived the idea
had not abandoned 1t after reducing
it to practice.
testimony of Armstrong and his wit
nesses who place his conception of
the invention in October 1912.
Reduced to Practice in 1912.
AS neither Meissner nor Iangmuir
could go back that far, they are
eliminated, the court suggests, and
left the question merely between De
Forest and Armstrong. De Forest re-
duced his invention to practice in
August 1912 and the testimony fails
to disclose that he abandoned it, the
court finds.
The decision of the New York court
in a suit brought by Armstrong
against the De Forest Radio Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company, which
was decided in favor of Armstrong.
has no bearing, the court finds, be-
cause it involved an infringement
and not the question of priority. So
little has that case to do with the
matter that the court suggests that
if the decision had been for De Forest
il would not necessarily have an
ticipated the terms of the claims of the
Armstrong patent.
Evening star., 1924-05-05
TWO DEAD, TEN HURT
IN AUTO ACCIDENTS
Child Injured Fatally When
Thrown From Pony Struck
by Machine.
C0L0RED WOMAN KILLED
Knocked Down When She Alights
From Motor Bus.

Thirteen traffic accidents, two fatai
were reported by the police during
the twenty-four hours ended at 8
o'clock this morning. Mrs. Sadie Nor
ton, colored, fifty, 1899 18th street
northeast and Thomas Linney, nine.
1000 Tunlaw road, were victims OF,
the fatal accidents.
The former was knocked down in
front of 1902 Bladensburg road north
east by an automobile last night dy
ing at Casualty Hospital an hour
later, while the boy died at George
town University Hospital this morn
ing as a result of injuries sustained
yesterday afternoon when a pony he
was riding at 31st street and Massa-
chusetts avenue was struck by an
automobile.
Mrs Morton alighted from a motor
bus in front of 1902 Bladensburg road
the vehicle, was knocked down by
the automobile of George Lanham,
1927 G street northeast. She sus-
tained broken leg and severe injury
to her head. Lanham was paroled
to appear as a witness at an inquest.
Thrown From Pony.
The Linney boy, SON of Thomas /.
Blair School was riding alone yes
terday Afternoon when the accident
happened. When the automobile
struck the animal the child was
thrown to the roadway and his skull
fractured.
Capt c. o. Henry, U. S. NJ. c., sta
toned at Quantico. Va, took the In
jured boy to the hospital. Occupants
OF the car that struck the pony stop
ped and remained on the scene until
the boy had been taken away. Wal
ter Mertz, forty, 1901 Wisconsin ave
nue.. alleged to have been driver OF
the automobile. surrendered later 60
police of the seventh precinct and
was held to await the result OF the
child's injuries.
Auto OvcrturnS.
Overturning Of the automobile OF
Robert Kittridge, sos 22d street, at
8th and n streets yesterday after
noon resulted from a collision with
the car of w. II. Walton, 1880 14th
street. Mrs. H. BuntZ, 1853 Az street
southwest, and Mrs. Gertrude Buntz,
Union Hill, y. j., occupants of the
overturned car, were injured They
were treated at Emergency Hospital.
Others injured in traffic accidents
yesterday were Joseph Wescin, 1922
o street; Mrs. Antonio Longfellow,
Government Hotels; John D. Herrell.
Mrs. Laura Herrell and Mrs. Laura
Campbell, 1875 kilbourne- place: An
ME Sherry, 612 D street southeast;
John Fletcher, colored, 720 Brown
court; Mrs. S. B. Robinson and Miss
Pearl Robinson, her daughter, 1853
Monroe street, and Martha Lane, COL
ored, 2251 Cleveland place.
Evening star., 1924-05-05
THREE JOYRIDERS KILLED
Man and Two Women Victims as
Coupe Hits Tree.

NEW YORK, MAY 5.-Eugene Nc
Nance and two unidentified women
were killed and Alphonse Marcoux of
Riverdale was injured seriously to-
day when a four-seated coupe of an
expensive type sped down Riverside
drive and crashed into a tree at 98th
street
John Zanft told the police that
Marcoux was his chauffeur and that
he apparently had taken the car last
night for a joy-ride. A charge of
grand larceny was made against the
chauffeur, whose condition is criti-
cal.
A card in the handbag of one of
the young women bore the name
Peggy Johnson, but police thought it
likely that the card had been given
to her by a friend and that John
son was not the dead girls name.
Evening star., 1924-05-05
NAVY OFFICERS PAY
CASE RULING UPHELD

The Supreme Court today affirmed
the decision of the lower courts that
naval officers are entitled to their
statutory naval compensation when
on leave of absence with permission
to engage in other work.
The question was raised in the case
of Assistant Naval Constructor James
Reed, who, in 1912. was granted
leave of absence to become assistant
director of public works at Philadel
mia. He submitted with his request
for leave an agreement that ne would
refund all pay received by him from
the government while on leave. The
Court Of Claims held that notwith-
standing the agreement he was en-
titled TO the salary paid those of his
rank while on duty outside the
service.
Evening star., 1924-05-05
Senate Passes Bill
Creating Commission
to Pick District FLaa

The Senate today passed a bill
creating a commission to procure
a design for flag for the District
of Columbia. The bill now goes to
the House for action.
The commission Is to be COM
posed of the President, the Secre-
tary of War and the president of
the board of District Commissioners.
1t will have the advice of the Com
mission of Fine Arts. The bill as
reported carried an appropriation
of $500. This provision was
stricken out, however, at the sug-
gestion of Senator Robinson of
Arkansas, who pointed out that
the members of the commission,
all officials of the government,
made such an. appropriation, un-
Necessary, $3.50 e. :, 5f<s' - - - -
Evening star., 1924-05-05
Court Orders Vote on Bonus.

HARRISBURG, Pa, May 5.-The
'J)auphin County court today ruled
that a proposed amendment to the
state constitution permitting the bor-
rowing of $S5 100000 for soldiers bo-
nus must be submitted to the people
this year for approval or disapproval
The amendment passed the legisla-
ture and proceedings were brought
against the secretary of the common
wealth to restrain him from adver-
tising and certifying it this year.
Evening star., 1924-05-05
RULES ON FREIGHT RATES.
Supreme Court Defines Liability of
Shippers.

Shippers are not liable, the Supreme
Court held today, for differences be-
tween the lawful interstate rate and
the amount actually paid on fob.
shipments, unless it is specifically
provided for by contract.
The case arose out of a shipment
of coke from Holt, Ala, to the Great
Western Smelters Corporation at
Mayer, Ariz., and was brought by
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
against the Central Iron and Coal Com
pany.
Evening star., 1924-05-05
FORMER PROSECUTOR
GETS 10-YEAR SENTENCE
w. j. Corcoran Guilty in Plot to
Blackmail Wealthy Men-Wom-
an Given Five Years.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May 5.-Wil-
liam j. Corcoran, former district at
torney Of Middlesex County, was SEN
fenced today to seven to ten years
in the state prison for blackmaiL
Mrs. Theresa Duggan was SEN
fenced to five years at the woman's
prison at Sherborn and L. Warren
Kane to three and a half to five
years at the state prison. A stay
of execution of sentence on all three
was granted.
The charge grew out of the in
vestigation by former Attorney Gen
eral j. Weston Allen, which led to
the removal of Nathan A Tufts as
district attorney of Middlesex County
in 1921. Mr.. Allen named Corcoran
as one of a blackmail gang which
had extorted money from wealthy
men lured into comprising situations.
Evening star., 1924-05-05
GETS $500 VERDICT.
Milton Blum Wins Damage Suit
Agafnst Taxi Company.

The Terminal Taxicab Company
must pay Milton Blum $500 damages
for injuries received by him in No
yember. 1920. when he was struck by
a taxicab of the company ut Union
station plaza. The District Court of
Appeals so declared today when II af-
firmed a judgment for that amount
rendered by a jury in the District Su-
preme Court The opinion of the ap-
pellate tribunal was rendered by
George E. Martin. presiding judge of
the United States Court OF Customs
who sat in the absence of
Justice Robb.
Evening star., 1924-05-05
ELEVATOR FALLS, 8 HURT.
Lift Crashes Eight Floors in Chi
cago Building.

CHICAGO. May Slight persons
including two women, were injured
and several others severely shaken
when an elevator crashed eight floors
to the bottom of the shaft in the
Ashland block today. A new oper-
ator was in charge.
The accident was caused by 1.-THE
swapping Of the cables as tho llift
was ascendipAS and about to stop, at
the ninths8 Dor, according to the
operator, 10 was among the IN
Evening star., 1924-05-05
Auto Falls: Woman Killed

YORK. Pa, May 5.--Miss Anna
Marshall of New Haven, Conn, forty
years old, was killed. and Mrs.
Chauncey Yost and w. c. Krabe-
We're injured late last night. when
their automobile went over an en-
bankment along the SusQuehanna
trail, near Strinestown. Kraber. who
was driving, was unable to make
sharp turn at the northern entrance
of the bridge
Evening star., 1924-05-05
BOMB BLAST HURTS II.
Phosphorus Explodes at Schofield
Barracks, Honolulu,

HONOLULU. May 5.-Lieut. Ralph
Fl. Tate of Michigan, chemical war
fare service; Sergt. Richard williams
and Private Dimitris Papadimitrio
were seriously injured at Schofield
barracks when a PHOSPHORUS bomb
exploded in the chemical warfare
area of the barracks. Nine other en-
listed men were burned by flaming
gas. They are SerRt. Rowland
Fourner, Corps. Charles Cooley and
Rudolph Mattson, Privates John
Beaver, William Crump. William
Sehnert. Grant CavanauGh, Clifford
Jackson and Harry Miller Emery.
A shell was being placed In the
bomb when II exploded.
Evening star., 1924-05-05
WILL STUDY WATER USE.
Commission on Rio Grande Irri-
cation Named.

Senate bill authorizing appoint
ment of a commission to cooperate
with representatives of Mexico in a
study of the equitable use for irriga-
tion purposes of waters of the Rio
Grande below Fort Quitman, Texas,
was reported today by the House
foreign af1airs committee :
Evening star., 1924-05-05

"Chapter 179, Maryland laws, provides
a fine of from So to s25. or thirty to
ninety days Imprisonment. or BOTH for
taking any tree, shrub vine or flower
from the property of another without
the written permission or personal SUI
pervision of the owner. A similar law
for the District of Columbia and Vir-
ginia will be urged."--Wildfiower Pres
erYakiou Society.
Evening star., 1924-05-05

A "spit attendant" in a popular Lon
don restaurant has just retired after
forty-six years service, Fer nearly
every day during this long period he
roasted thirty-five saddles. of mutton,
ten beef sirloins and, sixteen loins OF
pork-nearly million joints In all
Evening star., 1924-05-05
Noted Woman Writer Dies.

LONDON, May 5.-Mrs. Hubert
Bland, poet, novelist and author of
childrens' books, died yesterday. She
wrote under her maiden name, l..
Nesbet.
Evening star., 1924-05-05
Swedish Actress Arrives.

NEW YORK, May 5.--Mme. Harriet
Bosse, Swedish actress and widow Of
August Strindberg, arrived today on
the Drottningholn for an indefinite
stay in the United States.
Evening star., 1924-05-05
Firemen Thank Committee.

The House District committee to-
day received a letter from the City
Firefighters' Association, signed by
Capt Edward O'Connor, thanking the
committee for passage of the new
salary bill.
Evening star., 1924-05-05
April Circulation
Sunday 1O3,5OS

District OF Columbia. ss.:
FLEMING NEwBoLD, Business Manager Of
THE EVENING and SUNDAY STAR, does sol
emnly swear that the actual number Of copies
OF the ia per named, sold and distributed dur
ing the month of April. AID. 1924, was rs
follows:
Evening star., 1924-05-05
ACCEPT INVITATIONS.
More Than 100 Organizations to
Attend Conference.

More than 100 national organiza-
tions have accepted the Presidents
recent call for a national conference
on outdoor recreation here, May 22-
"a, it was announced yesterday at
the office of Theodore Roosevelt,
chairman of his committee.
Evening star., 1924-05-05
Five Commissioned in Army.

Five more residents of this city
have been commissioned by the War
Department in the Officers Reserve
Corps of the Army. They are: Her
bert c. Wooley Of st. ,Elizabeth's Hos
pital, who is appointed a colonel in
the Medical Corps; Ralph Hamilton Of
s24 18th street, a major in the Med
ical Corps; Daniel S. Hatfield of 1914
35th street and John j. Mattare of
3240 N street, as first lieutenants in
the Medical Corps, and Erie l. Poff
of the New Ebbitt as a second lieu
tenant in the Medical Administrative
Corps.
Evening star., 1924-05-05

please leave the dogwood for others
to enjoy"
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Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1924-05-05

Only one couple in every 1.00e mar
ried people live to celebrate. their
golden wedding.
Evening star., 1924-05-05

Apprentice five pounds claimed.
Weather, clear; track, fast.
Evening star., 1924-05-05

SEVENTH RAcE-Purse, ST. 400: three-
year-olds and up; claiming; one mile and
three -sixteenths.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-02-22
Carpenters FORM
LADIES AUXILIARY

At a recent meeting of the Aber-
deem local of carpenters, the question
of instituting an auxiliary composed
of the wives, sisters or mothers of
carpenters was debated, resulting in
general approval and concurrence by
the local. Many of the ladies elig-
ible to membership have or have had
membership formerly and with the
assistance of these ladies, together
with active members of the carpen-
ters' local, considerable number will
soon form an organization and secure
a charter.
This is a step long contemplated
and needed, which will undoubtedly
bring into closer touch with all, the
aims and better understanding
through affiliation, that have banded
together over 80 per cent of all the
carpenters in the United States and
Canada.
The preamble of the constitution
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-02-22
DAUGHERTY PLEADS
HE IS BEING ABUSED

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-In let
ter to Congressman Graham, which
was clearly written for publicity pur-
poses, Attorney General Daugherty
pleads that he is being abused.
The attorney general says he is sub
jected to attacks "on the part of in
nOcent but used, and ignorant but i'll
disposed persons generally" He in
sists that he is not tainted with Tea
pot Dome, but his inaction when the
control of Teapot Dome was trans
ferred to the interior department
makes an interesting comparison with
his frenzied activity against railroad
shop men.
The law plainly states that oil fields
reserved for navy use shall be under
the control of the navy department.
Ignoring this statute, and with the ut
most secrecy, Secretary DENLY of the
navy department agreed with Secre-
tary Fall of the interior department
that the oil lands be turned over to
the interior department. 1t is pub
licly charged that the reason for this
secret violation of law was because
navy officers would not consent to the
navy department giving the oil fields
to private exploiters.
This made it necessary to have the
oil fields removed from the jurisdic-
ton of the sea fighters.
Daugherty knew of this violation of
law. But he remained silent. This
bombastic figure, who blatantly an
nounced he would use every govern
mental force at his command in de-
fense of the anti-union shop made no
move to check clear violation of law.
The nations first line of defense was
crippled by this gift to exploiters,
but never a suggestion of an injunc-
tion to stay this unlawful, unpatri-
otic act came from the attorney gen.
eral But he did ask for an injunc-
ton against the shop men, who vio-
lated no law.
Daugherty's silence when big busi-
ness is involved and his activity
against the workers, makes new
record in public life.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-02-22
LABOR DETERMINED
TO HOLD MEXICO To
PATH OF PROGRESS
RENALDO TORRES, SECRETARY
MEXICAN FEDERATION
SENDS MESSAGE
Declares Organized Labor Movement
of Mexico There to
Remain

The backbone of the de la Huerta
revolt having been broken by the joint
efforts of the government and organ
lied labor, suggestions for "peace-
full solution" have not been lacking.
The so-ealled "neutrals" have been
working feverishly in their advocacy
of "peace" From the indifferent
observers" that they were a few
weeks ago, they have become the
most active persons in Mexico be-
cause, as they put it, "it grieves them
deeply to see the country torn to
pieces" 1t is incredible how these
"neutrals" from a supine inactivity
have been spurred into a most fever
ish activity by the smashing defeats
administered by the government
troops against the rebel forces on
both the eastern and the western
fronts.
These "peace" drives might be well
come were it not, first, that they orig
mate from sources where it was Sc
cretly wished that the Obregon gov
ernment be overthrown; and, second,
that the suggestions are advanced on
the mistaken grounds that the con-
flict is purely one of a political ma
ture in which the people are not in
terested.
1t is idle to believe that the peo-
pie are not interested in a conflict
which at bottom is a social and eco
nomic issue, with the circumstances
that the leaders of the revolt pOunc-
ed upon the political issue as a screen
to cove- the true purpose of their
movement.
The organized labor movement Of
Mexico has been under no illusions
as to the fundamental issues at stake
both before and after the revolt was
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