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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
GEN. HARRIS POST
SOON TO BE FILLED
President May Name Successor to
Late Quartermaster General
in Few Days.

The President Is expected 10 APP
point a quartermaster general of the
Army to fill the vacancy caused by
the recent death of Maj. Gen. Will
liam II. Hart, within the next few
days. There is a question as to
whether the appointment shall be
made from the Quarter1naster Corps
itself or from the Army at large. The
impression prevails in military circles
that neither Brig. Gems. John b.
BalHnger, Albert G. Dalton or Moses
G.. Zalinsl1i. assistants to the quar-
termaster general. will be elevated to
the vacancy at the head Of the corps
at this time. Gen. Ballinger, now
acting quartermaster general. will
retire for age in April next and Gen.
Zalinski in January, 1927. Gen. Dial
tons four-year term as assistant TO
the quartermaster general will ex-
pire next December, but he will not
retire for age until October. 1891.
Col. William s. Wood at Philadelphia
is the senior colonel in the corps and
he does not retire until 1929.
In case the selection of the next
quartermaster general is confined to
that corps. it is among the possibli
ties that the choice will fall on Col
E. Frank Cheatham of Tennessee
who has been the chief military as
sistant Of the Assistant Secretary OF
War during the administrations OF
both Assistant Secretaries Davis and
MacNider.
Secretary Dwight Davis has made
it plain that regardless of whether
the appointment is made from the
Quartermaster Corps or outside Of IL
it will be given to the officer regarded
as best qualified and likely to coop
! crate in the execution of the approved
policies of the Government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
HEMP TRADE MONOPOLY
ASSURED PHILIPPINES
Gen. Wood Signs Bill Barring Ex-
portation of Abaca Seeds
From the Islands.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
MANILA. December IA virtual
monopoly Of the abaca ChempJ trade
and industry for the Philippines was
assured today when Gov. Gen. Leon
ard Wood signed the bill passed by
the recent Legislature prohibiting the
expectation of abaca seeds
The Philippine Islands is the only
region that has successfully produced
hemp, which is used in making rope
and binder Irvine. In recent years
hemp has been extensively manufac-
Jured into clothing suitable for tropi-
cal countries. into hats, brushes and
rugs.
Mexico. Java and other countries
have been importing abaca seeds in
an attempt TO produce hemp in COM
mercial quantities, but with little
success. Several tropical countries
have shown a disposition recently to
renew their efforts to establish an
abaca industry. causing the Philip
pine Legislature to take measures to
assure monopoly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
MELLON REQUESTS
DEBTS APPROVAL
Urges House Committee to
Give Sanction to Terms
Made by Commission.

Approval of the war debt settlements
negotiated during the summer with
Italy, Belgium and other nations by
the debt commission, ''in the interest
of those American producers VINO
must have a foreign market able 10
pay" was urged by Secretary Mellon
before the House ways and means
committee yesterday.
Mr.. Mellon discussed in detail the
negotiations and told the committee
that the entire foreign debt is not
worth as much to the American PEG
pie in dollars and cents as a prosper
Gus Europe as a customer. lie de-
scribed the settlements as just and I'm
the real interests of our country"
Favorable report to the House on
the agreements is expected to be or
dered tomorrow by the committee, and
Chairman Green announced he would
ask for their consideration before the
end of the week, after which they
must be approved by the Senate.
The commission was guided largely,
Mr.. Mellon told the committee, by the
principle of capacity of the debtor
nations to pay" While Belgian and
Italian settlements did not conform
to the terms of the British settlement,
the Secretary said he wanted Ito make
clear that the British American settle
ment is one based on capacity to pay,
and not fixed formula to which all
others, irrespective of capacity. must
conform. and that a creditor is free
TO settle with its debtors as it may
choose"
IF the debtor is to be able to pay
and If the creditor is to receive any
thing" he said. "a settlement fair to
both countries is essential. 1t follows
that those who insist upon impossible
terms are in the final analysis work
ing for an entire reputation Of the
debts. The only other alternative
which they might urge is that the
United States go to war to collect"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
TEXAS HOUSE SPEAKER
SUED FOR BOARD BILL
Satterwhite Defendant in $75 Ac-
tion-Debt Owed for Four Years,
Accuser Says.

BY the Associated Press.
AUSTIN, Tex, January 5.-Speaker
Lee Satterwhite of the Texas House
of Representatives, erstwhile advo-
cate of a special session of the Legis-
lature to investigate among other
things handling of State money, is
defendant in a suit filed here for col
lection of a S75 board bill nearly four
years old.
An attorney for Miss Emma Ford,
now of Tulare County, Calf, is seek
ing judgment on prOmlSSory note
which she claims Mr.. Satterwhite eN-
ecuted June l, 1922, to cover the bill.
The transaction. alleged the petition,
took place at Panhandle, Tex, the
legislators home.
THE suit was filed for spite" Mr..
Satterwhite declared. THE debt is an
honest one and | have not repudiated
it
II owe quite a few old debts and am
paving them up as rapidly as pos
sible," Mr.. Satterwhite explained. IF
| had been without principle and
without honor l could have grated
on the State and paid them up long
ago
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
FORD MOTOR INTERESTS
BUY 1,4O0 ACRES OF LAND
Chicago Newspaper Says Purchase
Was Made as Site for Large
Flying Terminal.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 5.-The Herald
and Examiner says the Ford Motor
interests have purchased ! 400 acres
of land in the Hammond Maynard ter
ritory contiguous to 1llinoiS-Indiana
State line to be used for a large flying
terminal
Located on the site will be equip
ment for the manufacture. assembly
and testing of airplanes on a whole
sale scale. says the newspaper. in con-
nection with the extension of the Ford
airlines throughout the West. The
attached flying field will be adequate
for the accommodation of large flights
of planes.
The site was reported as having
been purchased by Edsel Ford at a
price of 100000. A thousand acres
lie in Indiana and 400 on the Illinois
side Of the line.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
WILL HEAR APPEAL
ON PHONE RATES
Justice Mccoy to Start Con-
sideration of Case Today
or Tomorrow.

Chief Justice Walter l. Mccoy will
begin late this afternoon or tomorrow
hearing the appeal Of the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Co. from the
decision OF the Public Utilities Corn.
mission directing a reduction Of %
cents on unlimited service and in
creasng the number Of calls permitted
to limited subscribers.
Attorneys George +. Hoover and
Alexander Brttton appeared for the
company, while Corporation Counsel
Stephens represented the commission.
Maj Covell. Assistant Engineer Com
missioner, was present in court when
the case was called.
There are two cases on the calendar
of the chief justice to be heard before
the telephone company is reached.
The court inquired in what capacity
he was to hear the case and was in
formed by Attorney George =. Hoover
that in reviewing the action Of the
commission he was to act 'legislat
lively" but in passing on the question
of reduction of rate being confiscatory
he would act ''judicially."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
Owner, Seeking Cause of Inn Raid,
Lands in Cell on Series of Charges

DR.. Charles NJ. k.mmons of 100
Pennsylvania avenue southeast. jour
neyed to HyattSville yesterday to ask
why his Prince Georges County inn,
Green Gables, was raided Saturday.
Some hours after he had disappeared
into the office of Mrs. Retta ID. Morris,
justice of the peace, in HyattSVille, his
chauffeur became worried and made
an investigation.
The chauffeur finally located his EN-
ployer safely locked up in jail. charged
With drunkenness and disorderly con
duct and disturbing the peace. Former
States Attorney j. Wilson Ryon finally
was located and agreed to represent
DR.. EmmonS. Bond was fixed on the
first charge at $1,000, and on the sec
und. which is purely a township ordi-
nance. at $500. both of which We're
posted.
According TO available information.
Dr. E,mmonS had appealed to Mrs.
Morris for information about the raid
on his inn. The county police. it is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
.UPD|KE THREATENS
NOMINATION FIGHT
Will Ask Coolidge to With
draw Name of Bryson, In
dianapoIis Postal Head.

Robert II. Bryson. president of the
National Association of PoStmaSters,
is threatened with a fight against con-
tirmation for another term as post
master in Postmaster General News
home city of Indianapolis.
Representative Updike, a Republi-
can. who represents the Indianapolis
district in the House. said today he
would ask President Coolidge to with
draw the Bryson nomination, sent to
the Senate yesterday. He declared he
had not Endorsed the nomination ex-
Cept on the condition that Bryson
submit TO a civil service examination.
and protested that postmaster patron
age belonged TO Representatives and
not to Senator'S or members of the
cabinet.
While the Senate alone passes on
postmaster nominations, MIR. Updike
said that unless the nomination was
Withdrawn he would find a way to
block il.
Postmaster General New recon-
mended u reappointment for Bryson,
whose term expires January IS. The
Postmaster General said today he
merely was following the custom of
continuing in office any first class
postmaster who had given satisfactory
service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
Senators Parry
Over Resolution
On Peace Stand

Senator Shipstead of Minnesota.
Farmer Laborite. introduced and
had read to the Senate yesterday
a resolution authorizing the Presi-
dent to be represented in any for
eign conference for the further
limitation of ornaments. His res
olution was aimed particularly at
the draft or CONSUMPTION of any
kind. and urged that the nations
be pledged never, in peace or In
war. to resort to conScription.
Has the Senator from Mime
sofas resolution been approved by
Edsel Ford and Jack Dempsey"
demanded Senator Reed of Penn
sylVania, who served overseas as a
major in the Field Artillery during
the World War.
Does the Senator expect an an
swer to that question:" parted
Senator Shipstead.
IF the Senator does not desire
to reply / will not press it," an
Swered Senator Reed.
The interchange later was elm
mated from the record
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
CITY PLANNING BILL
MEETS OPPOSITION
Commissioners Fail to Back Meas.
ure for New D. c. Body.
Confusion Is Seen.

Senate bill 669, providing for the
creation of Federal city planning
commission, was opposed today by the
Board of District Commissioners on
the ground that it would be a retro
grade step and would lead to con-
fusion rather than to cooperation. :"
Modification of this measure or the
substitution of Senate bill Gel was
suggested.
The object of bill $50, the Commits
sioners explained, is to create COM
mission consisting of certain pre-
scribed people charged with the duty
of developing a comprehensive, con-
Sistent and co-ordinated plan for the
District and its environS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
ARMS FARLEY ENJOYS
STILL TO BE NAMED
President Intimates U. S. Diplomats
in Europe May Be Assigned
as Delegates.

President Coolidge has reached no
decision as to the personnel of the
delegation he will appoint to repre-.
sent the United States at the prelimi
nary arms limitations conference to
be held in Geneva. Switzerland, next
month, under the auspices of the
League of Nations
Discussing this matter with friends
today, the President minated that i:
is his intention to select some of the
delegates from among men in the
foreign service who are now ir
Europe. He also will designate sew
eral representatives of the Army ane
Navy to accompany the delegation
and to serve as advisers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
Resolution AIlOts
Term of Four Years
For House Members

Four year terms Of office for
members of the House of Repre-
sentatives was proposed H. joint
resolution introduced yesterday by
Representative Taylor, Democrat,
Colorado.
The measure also would pro-
vide that the terms of the Presi
dent and Vice President begin the
second week In January and that
Congress meet at least once every
wear
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05

said, raided the place, but made no
seizures and preferred no charges.
When Special officer GaSch, VINO
happened to be in Mrs. Morris offlce,
volunteered that he had assisted i'll
the raid and was armed at the TIME,
DR.. EmmoES started to write down
his name.
GaSch, il is said, reached for the
paper. and in another minute, Or
Emmons was lying on the floor. When
he arose Miss Agnes Duvall. a social
service worker, ordered him arrested
on the drunkenness charge. Then
GaSch hurried over 10 Town Justice
Moffatt and obtained the additional
warrant for disturbing the peace. Dr.
k.mmonS SWearS he was refused per
mission to communicate either with
his wife friends or a lawyer before
being led away to Jail
The case Will be further aired in
court on Thursday, but DIR. EmmonS
is still i'm the dark about the raid on
his inn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
SHERIFF EXONERATED
IN BULL FIGHT CASE
Florida Governor Frees County Of
fetal Accused of Failing to
Uphold State Law.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TAMPA, Fla, January 5.-Sheriff
l.. NJ. Hers. eXonerated yesterday by
Gov. John W. Martin of a charge of
failing to uphold the law by permit
ting a bull fight in Tampa, tonight
was homeward bound, intent upon
preventing Cuban and Spanish clubs
from staging any more "bloodless"
bull fights.
The county official is quoted as
saying in Tallahassee that there
would he no more such exhibitions
in Tampa.
F'ermine Sueto, secretary of the
Centre Espanol, which sponsored the
fights here Saturday, today admitted
his club and the Cuban club were
planning to hold a series of them as
soon as the revolution is over in
Tallahassee" The secretary was re-
ferring to hearing of charges against
Hers by the governor.
Sueto said the arena was being
electrically equipped 50 that the con-
tests could be held at night. He
further said Rafael Gomez and Fran
cisco Perez Rivera, noted Spanish bull
fighters. and their troupe of eight
matadors and 80 wild bulls from
Mexico" have been retained for the
exhibition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
TWO CHILDREN BURNED.

Two colored children, Frank and
Theodore Manuel. and ? years old,
respectively, were burned yesterday
in their home on II street hill south
east, when fire broke out while their
mother, Georgia Manuel, was at a
store. A. f. Cogan of II 1 street
southeast, who was in the neighbor-
hood when the mother returned home
and found the kitchen afire, rescued
the children from the house and took
them to Chidren's Hospital.
The younger child IS in serious
condition, while the other was not
seriously affected. The house was
Quilted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
HOW FAR D|SARM?!
ISPROBLEMOF j. s.
Army Cut to Bone and Navy
Is at Safety Margin,
Some Believe.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

President Coolidge's formal accept
ance Of the League of Nations inVi-
fation to 4 preliminary disarmament
conference is the signal for a spirited
debate III America as to how far this
country can now go III reducing its
defensive establishment. Two rival
schools of thought may shortly be eN-
pected to take the field and air their
theories with all the emphasis at their
command.
one school is the element that be
lteyes in peace 10y preparedness. The
other school is recruited from among
those who believe with President
Coolidge that competitive ornaments
constitute a powerful factor in the
promotion of war" 1t is they who
advocate cutting the Army, Navy,
Marine Corps and air force to the
bone. and even to the cartilage.
Reduction of American defenses to
police force" status is the way they
usually phrase their demand for
Slashing the Army and Navy to
point far below anything ever yet
proposed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
Bar Army Reduction.

The Coolidge administration Will. nj
no time, either at the preliminary
Geneva meeting OF at any formal dis
armament conference in which we par
1icipate, agree To discuss further re-
No country in the world. that ranks
rs a great power. has military force
anywhere near as small as the Amer
lean Army. Moreover, our Army *
scattered all over the world-in the
canal Zone, in the Hawaiian Islands,
in Alaska, in the Philippines, in
china and in thinly-manned corps
areas in the United States itself.
No proposition. therefore, to white
down armies will have any interest
for Uncle Sam. He's down to bed
rock, has been ever since the World
War. and cannot demobiize with
safety another man or dismount an
other gun. Most authorities think
we've demobiliZed too many men and
dismOunted too many guns already.
caught unawares by another interna-
tlonal war, as the United States was
caught in 1917. the chances are that
We should have to hurry, SCurry and
worry, and spend money lavishly, to
achieve an army war footing.
Gen. Pershing never tires of saying
that the American people through all
their history have finished one war
only to delude themselves into think
ing there1l never be another The
unvarying result has been unprepared-
ness when the always uneXpected
emergency arrived.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
Appointed Lieutenant Colonel

Oscar ID. Weed 1910 kearney
street northeast. has been appointed
by the War Department, a Lieutenant
Colonel, Quartermaster Corps. and
Roy r. Priest, Riverdale Md,
Captain Quartermaster Corps. both
in the Officers Reserve Corps of the
a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
Navy Safer Ground.

The United States finds itself on
somewhat safer ground with respect
I" further naval disarmament We
attempted at the Washington confer
chCc of 1921-1922 to bring about linn
son OF auxiliary craft construction,
IN, III the case of submarines, even
to abolish such craft altogether. But
the opposition of France frustrated
that program. Today America I'M
doubtedly is as willing as ever to
bring about the kind of additional ma
Nal disarmament found impossible at
Washington four years ago. We could
do that with relative safety. of course.
II Great Britain and Japan, the two
other great sea powers, agreed with
l 10 scrap cruisers, destroyers, sub
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
INQUIRY ORDERED
IN GAS PO|SON|NGS
Coroner Acts as Number of
Monoxide Victims Grows
AIarmingIy.

Thoroughly aroused To the deadly
menace that has suddenly been pre-
scented by the tragic work of Stealthy
carbon monoXide in Illuminating gas
since Christmas. Coroner j. Ramsey
hewitt has ordered Il searching inVes
tigation into the latest three deaths
to occur from this poison with a view
to finding definite measures for pre-
venting accidental fatalities of sim
liar nature.
In the II days that have elapsed
since Christmas, four persons have
been killed and 10 persons poisoned,
though not fatally, by carbon monox-
ide gas.
The latest victim was Mrs. Jose
phine T.. Johnson, wife of Walter A.
Johnson, executive clerk of the Sen
ate. who was found dead in her home
at 1909 Eleventh street yesterday aft
ernoon by her l5-year-o daughter
Josephine.
Mrs. Johnson's body lay in a room
where a gas heater had been lighted
to warm some water 1t is believed,
although not definitely established as
yet. that there was not sufficient air
in the room to permit complete COM
buStion of the gas. AS a result a Suf-
tiCient concentration of the deadly car
bon monoxide would have been gener-
ated to produce a creeping death that
gives little warning before it strikes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05

Great Britain's air force is being
equipped with parachutes on the basis
of one parachute for one seat in an
a ircraff
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-05
Detectives Study Problem.

In addition to this, three other per
sons We're treated for gas poisoning
and an autopsy over the bodies of
Carson Heiskell, 40 years old, and his
son Lawrence. %. disclosed that both
had been poisoned by carbon monoN-
ide. The two men We're found dead
in their apartment at $500 NJ street
SUNDAY afternoon. These facts
strengthened Coroner hewitt in the
belief that vigorous steps should be
taken to prevent additional repeti-
lions.
Detectives Kelly, Scrivener, Swee-
ney and Waldron We're today assigned
at police headquarters to gather every
bit of information that is available
for presentation at the corOner'S in
quest. They have called gas company
experts to give testimony on the con-
Struction of gas pipes, and specialists
from the Bureau of Standards to Sups
ply the inquest with technical infor
nation about carbon monoXide gas.
Coroner Newt, in view of the in
vestigation which is being made by
detectives today, postponed inquests
in the HeiSkell cases until tomorrow
at 100 o'clock and in the Johnson
case until the following day at 80.
Seeks to Solve Problem.
These gas cases seem to be reach
ing the stage of matter of public
concern" Coroner hewitt said today.
when as coroner / find so many
cases of such similar nature occur
ring in such short space of time 1
think ii the duty of this office to
cause steps to be taken looking TO
the relief of such q situation"
The three persons overcome but not
seriously affected by gas poisoning
yesterday We're:
Mrs. Della B. Stewart. 90 years old
of 1919 Eleventh street, who became
unconscious while praying in a room
containing a gas heater: Grace Olga
Suffers, 10 years old, of 1903 L street
who was affected by gas from the
kitchen gas stove, and William H
Howe, a street car conductor of Mary
land Park, Md, found unconscious
in a rooming house at $40 Pennsyl
vania avenue. A leaky gas jet was
declared responsible for his condition
Each of these three persons was
taken to Emergency Hospital and re
vived