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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23
FALL AND D0HENy
APPEAL DECISION
Ask Special Action on Ruling
of Justice Stafford Uphold
ing Indictments.

Albert r. Fall. former Secretary OF
the Interior, and Edward L. Doheny
oil magnate OF Los Angeles, today
asked the District Court Of Appeals to
grant special appeal from the deci
sion of Justice Stafford of the District
Supreme Court sustaining the validity
OF the new conspiracy indictment
growing out of the leasing of the Elk
Hills naval oil reserve in California
Through Attorneys Henry A. Wise OF
New York and Frank J. Hogan OF
Washington, the accused point ou,
that a great saving OF time and ex
pense would result from the appellate
tribunal taking up and deciding the
law points involved IN advance of a
trial
Justice Stafford. according to coun.
sci for the defense, in sustaining the
validity Of the Indictment extended the
scope Of the latest conspiracy decision
Of the United States Supreme Court
which has been generally regarded as
limiting the scope of a conspiracy to
defraud.
Counsel also call attention to the
fact that Justice Stafford called on
them for briefs on five important
QuSotlOHc VI law Dy Tie JuS
tice himself and in his decision failed
to dispose Of them or tc discuss any
one of them.
In the event of a trial, the court is
told. a large number of witnesses for
both the prosecution and defense
would have to be brought 5000 miles
from their places of residence and
business. Witnesses would have to
come from New Mexico. Texas, Cal.
ifornia and number of other West.
ern States. Such trial would occupy
not less than six weeks. counsel sug-
gest, and would involve a record of
several thousand pages and about 400
exhibits. 1t would be an idle thing.
say counsel, to go through a long trial
on this indictment only to learn that
the facts established constituted nc
offense cognizable by the court.
Similar action is expected to be
taken by Attorney George P. Hoover,
counsel for Harry F. Sinclair. who is
also indicted for conspiracy with Fall
in connection with Teapot Dome re-
serve.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23
AGRICULTURAL BILL
REPORTEDIN SENATE
Committee Increases Amount of
Fund Measure $2,366,940
Amendment to Be Asked.

The agricultural appropriation
bill, carrying a total of $129.370. .46S,
was reported to the Senate today by
Senator McNary of Oregon on behalf
of the appropriations committee. The
Senate committee increased the
amount carried by the bill as it
passed the House by $2,366.940.
The committee authorized Senator
McNary to offer on the floor of the
Senate an amendment providing S25.-
900 for a preliminary chronological
survey of salt marsh areas m the
South Atlantic and Gulf States in
order to determine the best method
of controlling the breeding of mos
quitoes.
Among the items of increase al
lowed by the Senate committee were
the following: For the Bureau of
Animal Industry, S1,S97 900, for the
tuberculosis of animals; for the Bur-
eau of Plant Industry, S12O,4T5; for
the Bureau Of Soils, 100000, includ-
ing S185, 900 for fertilizer investigation
and a fixed nitrogen laboratory; for
the Forest Service, $50 900: for the
Weather Bureau, $4,000; for the Bur
eau of Entomology. $4,000; for the
Bureau of Agricultural Economics,
sl9.5OO; for the Horticultural Board,
$4,000.
The committee decreased by $l3,7S0
the appropriation for the investigation
and Improvement of tobacco, including
methods of production and handling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23
WILL ASK PROBE
| OF SALM'S STATUS
La Guardia Seeks to Deter
mine if He May Be Deported
Over Finances.

Representative La Guardia, So
cialist, New York, announced today
he would ask the Labor Department
to investigate the status of Count
Ludwig Salm Won Hoogestraeten,
husband OF the former Millicent Rog-
ers, to determine if he was subject
to deportation on the ground that he
might become a public charge.
Mr.. La Guardia said he expected
to forward a letter to the Labor De-
partment late today asking an inquiry
into the counts case, and If it was
found he was without visible means
of support, his deportation would be
requested.
Count Salm arrived in Washington
early today from Palm Beach, Fla.
With him was his mother. the dow
ager countess, who has accompanied
him ever since he left Europe.
Count Salm stepped from his train
to the station platform and hurried at
top speed to a taxicab, which in turn
whisked him to the Mayf1ower Hotel
There he engaged n suite for himself
and another for his mother on the
tenth floor of the hotel and locked
himself in, refusing to answer tele-
phone calls or repeated pleas at his
men.
One reporter who succeeded in
coaxing the count to answer his
phone, was curtly told, Nothing to
say" Another raped at the door,
and a voice from within, evidently
that Of the dowager countess, de-
handed who 1t was When the scribe
finally admitted his identity he was
greeted with disgusted "Achr' and
next heard the feet Of the exclaimer
moving rapidly away.
Salm has been in Florida for sew
eral weeks, armed with a court order
giving him permission to see his lit
tie son, whom the Countess Won Hoo
gestraeten had steadfastly declined
to- permit out of her sight. Each oc-
casion when the youngster was taken
to his father, he was carefully
guarded by a nurse and a retinue Of
detectives, won arbitrarily refused to
permit the count to take the child
away from their view.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23

artistic performance"
Mrs. Hurst, when notified early
today of the singers action, said she
had heard nothing of Giglis leaving,
but added Il don't blame Gigli for
going In the face of those threats"
Twice Before Threatened.
NEW YORK, February % @.-
Beniamino Gigli, noted tenor, who left
Detroit secretly early today, after
threats against his life had been re-
ceived, has been threatened with
harm twice before.
In January, 1925. 1t was learned
that Gigli had received two letters
from extortionists and had been
guarded for several weeks by a de-
tective. The first threat was in No
vember, 1924, and demanded that the
,enor send $500 to Emile Stadler"
of Los Angeles for the benefit of
Italian members Of the ku Klux
Klan, alleged to be held in prison.
The second threat was similar.
Gigli then was an honorary captain
in the New York police.
No Buffalo Engagement.
BUFAFLO, n. Y, February %
I@.-Beniamino Gigh. italian tenor,
who was reported to have left Detroit
early today for Buffalo after receiv-
ing bIackhand threats, has no en-
gagements to appear here. He was
not registered at any Buffalo hotel
this forenoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23
TWO OFFICERS SLAIN
IN BRUTAL MANNER
Shot Deliberately Through Heads
by Bandits as They Lie
Wounded.
BY the Associated Press.

By the ASSOCIATED frees.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, February 23.-
Two st. Paul patrolmen were shot by
an unidentified gunman in the resi-
dence district here early today, and
then as they lay helpless in the street
each was killed with a bullet through
the head.
The slayings came as climax to a
search for robbers who had terrorized
the residence district since Monday
night and who had committed seven
holdups in three hours.
The slain policemen. John Schultze
and Fred A. Poitsch, were patrolling
the district in an automopile and had
started to investigate a large car
when the shootings occurred. Poitsch
flashed his light into the machine and
was met with gunfire, two bullets hit
ting him. AS Schultze started to his
companion's aid he also was struck.
Mrs. Thomas Cameron, living near
by, said she was awakened by the
flrst shots and saw man walk to
the spot where SchultZe was lying.
The man, she said, held his revolver
close to the wounded policeman's head
and fired. He then walked TO Poltsch'
pressed his revolver close to the dy-
ing off1cer's head and fired again.
After tho second shot, Mrs. Came
ron said. the slayer examined both
bodies and then leaped into the car
and was gone. She called the police.
Mrs. Cameron, who put the time of
the slayings at $50 am, said that
the slayer spoke to some one inside
the automobile before he leaped in and
was driven away.
All available detectives and patrol
men were ordered in gun squad ma
chimes to patrol the city in search
of the murder car.
Both Schultze and Poitsch are sur
vived by families. Poitsch was 81, and
had been q member of the police force
since 1911. Schultze, 30. became a
patr6lman in 1919.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23
CIGLI. TENOR. CANCELS CONCERT
AFTER RECEIVING DEATH THREAT
Opera Star Quits Detroit
at 3 AM. After Night
Guarded by Police.
Singer Twice Before Has
Been Made Object of
Blackmail Efforts.
By the Associated Press.

,
DETROIT. Mich, February 23.-
The black hand squad of the police
department today is seeking q clue to
the identity of the person who sent a
threatening letter to Beniamino Gigli.
tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany, causing him to flee from De-
troit during the small hours of this
morning after canceling an engage
ment to sing III concert here tonight.
If Beniamino Gigli thinks he can
/ sing before better Italians than him,
with his traitor ideas. he is mistaken. -
said the letter. which was addressed
to Police Chief"
You can let him know there are
ways OF sliciug canary throats, and
II you don't want a corpse in your
morgue you'd better keep him out of
this town, where there are some good
Italians that know what patriots
should be. You can put all your
black hand bulls on the job you want,
ana then we will get him. any way"
The letter was signed True Son of
Italy. 1t was received February 49,
Detectives We're at the station yes
terday to meet GigH and guarded him
uitil he reached his hotel
Gigli learned Of the threatening let
ter after their departure and gave
orders for packing at once. Gigli and
his party left at 3:17 am. on an east.
bound Michigan Central train.
Leaving the hotel. Gigli and his
party went to the railroad station and
boarded a Pullman car which is at.
tached to the Chicago Buffalo train
here. Making of the reservations was
kept secret. and no one was allowed
into the car to talk to the singer be-
fore he left.
The note left at the hotel said.
According to the statement made
to my secretary by Mrs. Isobel Hurst
my local manager, that an anony
nous letter was received threatening
personal INJURY to me upon my con.
cert appearance here Tuesday night
/ have decided to cancel same, with
sorrow to disappoint my beloved De
troit public. But the nervous reac
ton would prevent NV doing a truly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23

The British embassy was sold to
Harry Wardman, and as soon as the
plans for the new embassy at OBJ
servatory Circle, on Massachusetts,
avenue. are completed by Sir Edwin
L. Lutyens, the famous British arch
itect, this old landmark also will dis
appear.
The Edison Bradley mansion was
long one of the most notable houses
in the National Capital, and much of
the exterior ornamentation and the
interior decorations were shipped to
Newport, r. l., where the Edison
Bradleys are erecting one of the most
magnificent residences In the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23
Edison Bradley Estate, Sold, Is Last
OF South Connecticut Ave. Mansions

The famous Edison Bradley estate,
on the south side of Dupont Circle at
the intersection of Connecticut avenue
and Nineteenth street. has been pur-
chased by Moebs Engineering and
Construction Co. Of this city, and
while nothing definite is forthcoming,
it is understood that probably large
apartment or Office building is to be
erected on the site.
The sale of this estate, on which
the palatial Edison Bradley home has
stood partly demolished for nearly
three years, marks the passing Of the
last Of the great mansions that lined
Connecticut avenue south Of Dupont
Circle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23
Oscillating Bottom in Bay of Biscay
Is Indicated in Varying Soundings

Bourdonnais on his last trip from New
York says he found 35 yards of water
where DIR. Charcot, the explorer, re-
Gently found 1000 yards. and where
Lieut.. Cornet Of the French navy a
few months ago found 135 yards. TIE
accuracy of the soundings taken bya
these three persons is admitted The
question is What caused the. difference
in depths between the .sou1idings? Old
maps, which were long accepted as
official. give depths In the region
sounded as from 5000 to 5000 yards
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23
By the Associated Press.

BORDEAUX, February 23.-Wheth'
or the bottom of the Bay of Biscay is
suffering from a state of instability Is
a problem that has been given to sci
entists to determine. 1t would appear
from reports of navigators during the
past few years that the crust of the
earth under the famous agitated water
of the bay oscillates with such fire.
auency that it is impossible to keep
records Of water depths straight.
The captain of the French liner La
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23
DROP OF 80 DEGREES.
Temperature at Tupper Lake, N. Y.
Is 80 Below Zero.

TUPPER LAKE, n. Y. February
% CP.-A temperature drop of so
degrees since noon yesterday had
sent the mercury to 80 degrees below
zero here today. The cold snap fol-
lowed two days of balmy weather.
Thermometers at Saranac Lake
registered from % to % degrees be-
low zero, the lowest readings Of the
Winter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23
COMPROMISE TAX
BILL BEFORE HOUSE
Leaders Confident Body Will
Accept Report of Con-
ferees Today.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
With leaders expecting quick action
the compromise revenue bill agreed to
by Senate and House conferees and
proposing a tax reduction of 1887 .000, :
600 was brought up for ratification to-
day in the House.
Several members opposed the con-
ference recommendations, but man.
ayers for the measure were confident
that the House would accept the COM
promise bill before night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23
Coolidge Approved
Disciplining Of
Air Service Men
By the Associated Press.

~ VIC hssoNihtco
The White House disclosed to-
day that President Coolidge ap-
proved the action taken in the
War Department. to impress on
air service officers that they must
not engage in efforts to influence
legislation.
He feels the step was necessary
TO prevent establishment in the
country of 81 pressure of public
opinion directed by military per-
sonnel. and he expects Army and
Navy personnel to comply strictly
with the regulations of the vari-
actions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23
AMNES|A VICTIMS
TALE IS UNF0LDED
Says He Was Robbed ot
$500, But Doesn't
Know Where.

Detectives Kelly and Scrivener of
police headquarters today started un-
raveling the vague and twisted tale
of Fred Mcdonnell. amnesia victim,
at Emergency Hospital. believed to
be a 70-year-ol merchant of Spen-
Ger, Mass. who says he was robbed
of approximately $1,000 somewhere In
Washington prior to last January 30.
when he was picked up rambling
about Union Station and sent to the
hospital by the Travellers Aid Socie-
ty.
First efforts of the detectives, di
rected at establishing whether the
robbery was real or imaginary, met
with scant success.
1t was learned definitely that Nc
Donnell came to the Arlington Hotel
on the night of January %, register!
ed and checked out the next day,
paying his bill of 81. The following
day Mcdonnell stayed at the Harris
Hotel. near the Union Station. and 1t
was the next morning that he was
picked up by the Travellers Aid So
ciety.
Had Money in Socks.
When he arrived at Emergency
Hospital, unable to tell his name
with no marks Of identification on his
person, and with a handbag with
clothing in his hands, Mcdonnell was
found to have $23s secreted in his
socks.
He said that he was robbed OF
81 500. which he kept in a wallet In
his inside coat pocket, and that at the
time of the robbery his papers and
~I- %@Ix
Mcdonnell stated that he was a Ma
son and this fact has been verified
although a canvass of Masonic organi
cations throughout the country, con
Quoted about a week ago, failed to
locate the lodge Of his membership
Today he told the detectives that he
was about three years behind in his
Masonic dues.
Lived Is Years on $4,000.
During the interview with Detec
tives Kelly and Scrivener at the hos
pital this morning Mcdonnell said
that he had $4,000 about Is years
ago; that he had lived during the
last Is years with no source Of in
come; that he might have had $500
when he came to this city, and was
sure he had more than $1,000, and
that all his money save that in his
sock had been stolen from him-how
where or when he did not know.
While the detectives started delvine
into the robbery report, more definite
Identification Of Mcdonnell as the
Spencer, Mass, merchant was being
awaited by the authorities here. Thus
far there has been telegram re
ceived stating that the Identification
has been made from photograph
and that plans for enlisting the aid
Of friends of the merchant were go
ing forward with the expectation thai
Mcdonnell does not know where his
friends can be found, he said, stating
that he had no family and that there
was nothing any one could do for him
in this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23
VETS OPEN DRIVE
AGAINST DRY LAW
Committee of 21 Chosen to
Seek Modification - VOL
stead Act Attacked.

Out Of the fire and smoke Of yes.
terday's cannonading against pro-
hibition by the biggest guns of the
modification camp, there emerged at
midnight plans for a fresh offensive
TO be hurled against the eighteenth
amendment and the Eolstead act
The new force Is a committee oi
twenty-one representative men. who
will formulate a legislative program
to be presented TO Congress as the
best thought Of combined modifica
tionism.
The COMMITTEES was appointed las
night by w. II. Stayton, nationa
chairman of the Association Arains1
the Prohibition Amendment, at the
conclusion of an afternoon confer
ence and evening banquet at the May
flower Hotel, where prohibition was
given one OF the most severe fiayingS
IN the six years Of it's history.
Represented on the committee, &C.
cording to Mr.. Stayton, are "wets
drys and moists,'' members of the
business men, novelist. a playwright
and many other outstanding men. y
This group Is expected to NEE;
shortly to work out a definite pro
gram. as suggested during the
banquet, by Senator Edge. Repub
lfcan, of New Jersey, to he submitted
to Congress as a concrete legisla.
tive plan" to correct the evils
which modif1cationists feel have
grown up under the present system.
Move Under Way in House.
Representative Hill, Republican
Maryland. who was toastmaster a,
the banquet, and was appointed a
member of the new committee. an
nounced afterward that the modifica
ton committee of the House of Rem
resentatlves, of which he is chairman n
expected to hold hearings before long
on the various proposals for modifica
ton of the Nolstead act put forwa I'd
by several groups, with a view to
Formulating new legislation. This
however, he indicated, would not halt
the present plans of the modification.
ISIS 10 push for consideration of light
VINE and beer bills already introduced
The new plan, Mr.. Hill thinks. how.
ever, will develop something of q nore
nature, as coming
from what he considers the most rep.
resentative group of Americans vet
assuming the duty of working ouf a
substitute for present prohibition.
The new committee, expected to act
as the spearhead for modification in
America, includes two Washington
men, and is as follows: Senator Raw.
ara, Democrat, Delaware; Senator
broussard. Democrat, Louisiana; Rep.
resentative Hill, Benedict Crowell Of
Cleveland. former Assistant Secretary
OF War; James Duncan, first vice
president of the American Federation
OF Labor; Pierre S. du Pont, Whining.
ton. Del; William p. Emo and Ar
chlbald Hopkins of Washington: p
Franklin, New York; DR.. Julius Fried.
enwald, Baltimore; Rupert Hughes
the novelist Of Hollywood, Calf: j.
NJ. P. Murphy. New York; Henry S,
Prlest, former Federal Judge, St
Louis: Charles S. Rackemann. Bos.
ton; Charles T. Stout, New York: VIII.
liam M. Solame, Princeton, N. j.: DR.
j. j. Seelman, Milwaukee; Gen. M. O.
Terry, Coronado, Calf; Augustus
THOMAS, New York; Calvert Townley
New York, and r. F. Wood. Pihla.
delphia.
Dry Law Blamed for Much.
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$4,000 Have Influenza.

MEXICO CITY. February % R).-
The newspapers report that at pres
ent there are $4,000 cases of influenza
in the Federal district. The outbreak
is due to the recent cold wave.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23
Flyer Franco Recalled to Spain.

MADRID. February % @.-Comdr.
Franco has been ordered to return
from Buenos Aires to Spain by ship.
His seaplane, Plus Ultra, has been
presented to Argentina by King AL
fOnSO.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23
Dry Law Blamed for Much.

Wholesale criticism was launched
against the eighteenth amendment
and the Volstead act during the two
sessions yesterday by Senator Ed
wards, Senator Edge. Representative
Mary T. Norton, Democrat, of New
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-23
Would Revise Reduction.

He pointed out that as the measure
was reported by the House District
committee it provided for a commits
sion of the seven officials who now
constitute the park commission and
six citizens appointed by the Presi.
dent. On the floor of the House the
number of citizens was reduced to
four. Mr.. Delano said the supporters
Of the bill felt that If the size of the
commission was to be reduced, the
reduction should have been divided
equally between the officials and citi.
zens on the commission. He sug.
gested, for example, a commission of
five officials and four citizens.
Referring to the section of the bill
which defines the powers of the pro-
posed planning commission, Mr.. De.
lano declared that II the various
activities mentioned as elements to
be considered in the drafting Ct n
city plan, such as coming, public utili.
ties, traffic, drainage and water sup
ply, are to be restricted they should
either all be omitted or all left In.
Mr.. Delano also explained to the
committee that section of the bill
which provides that individual Of
ficials on the commission shall ad-
here in principle to the plan of the
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WEATHER.

NI . Ntdlher bureau Forecast.J
Fair and colder tonight; tomorrow
fair, with rising temperature; lowest
tonight about IS degrees. Tempera-
tures-highest, SO, at 2:45 pm. yester-
day; lowest, 20, at 7:40 Am. today.
Full report on page Q.
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