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The Washington times., 1928-03-27
ON OIL
WATTS WALSH
RETURN

The Senate Teapot Dome in
vestigating committee will
have reports upon the proposed
Indictment of H. NJ. Blackmer
and J. E. O'Neil, missing oil
men, suggested by the Hearst
newspapers, placed before 1t in
the next few days.
The return of Senator Thomas
+. Walsh of Montana, to the city
is awaited before any action Is
taken. Senator Walsh Is now In
Michigan, attending the funeral OF
Senator Woodbridge M. Ferris. OF
that State, but it is anticipated ne
will return to his duties in the
Senate either tomorrow or Thurs
day.
The TEAPOT Dome committee Is a
unit in desiring the eXtradit1On OF
the oil men. and is awaiting the
report of several legal inquiries as
to the feasibility of indictment pro-
ceedings.
Senator Tyson, of Tennessee,
today expressed his belief that the
extradition of Blackmer and ONeil
ought to be accomplished by the
Federal Government without great
difficulty.
ut seems to me foregone con-
clusion that these oil men could
be forced to return to the United
States on any one of. several
counts" said Senator Tyson.
Il have always understood that
we have good extrad.tion treaties
with all the European countries. If
the formality of an Indictment is
necessary before bringing them back,
I believe that indictments can be
obtained on the strength of the
record now before the Senate in
vestigators."
The fact that the oil scandals are
going to play an important part in
the coming presidential election has
increased the interest among Sena.
tors in the proposed Indictment OF
BIackmer and O'Neil.
Several speeches on the Teapot
Dome episode are to be made in the
near future, and in some OF them
action against the Oil men Will be
demanded as the next step in clear
ing up the mystery surrounding the
So, 200, 900 "slush fund" of the Con-
tinental Trading Company.
The Washington times., 1928-03-27
Russian Ragamuffins
Kill Woman For
Good Time"

LENINGRAD, March 27.--Two
I1alf-starved homeless ragamuffins.
each only 13 years old, dubbed
and stabbed a 160.year-old woman
to death and then robbed her Of
twenty rubles $40 ITO have a
good time
The two young murderers, po-
lice learned. had spent most Of
the winter in shack on the out
skirts of Ka1pina, a suburb of
Leningrad.
To satisfy a craving for a
radio the lads waylaid the old
woman shortly after dusk and
when she refused to part with
her purse. they grabbed her cane,
beat her into Inconsistencies
and then thrust knife through
her heart.
Police arrested them the follow
ing day as they walked out of a
radio shop with a crystal set.
The Washington times., 1928-03-27
FORD. QUIZ MAY
BE SENATE
NOW.

Henry Ford may be called
to testify at the Senate coal
investigation, committee mem
bers indicated today.
Information has been presented
to the committee that Ford, who
operates mines in West Virginia
and Kentucky, pays his men 50 a
day, while nearby open shop COM
panies pay a top of SIS daily.
The reported Ford scale is above
the Jacksonville wage for which
the union is striking to maintain.
Because nearly fifty witnesses
already are under subpoena, Sen
ator watson (R.) OF Indiana, chair
man, has postponed dispatching a
second invitation to Gov. John s.
Fisher of Pennsylvania to appear
voluntarily.
Fisher criticized the sub-com'
mittee which visited Pennsylvania
and his appearance was requested
by Senator Gooding R) of Idaho.
Senator Golf R) of West Vlr-
GINA, who has been kept from the
Senate all session because of i'll
ness, attended today's hearing.
The Washington times., 1928-03-27
TOWNS BURIED
IN FLOOD
WATERS
by international News Service
SAGRA MENTO Calf,

BY International news Service
SACRAMENTO, Calf,
March 27.-Raging mountain
streams, swirling over their
banks with the peak load of
yesterdays torrential rains,
reared down into the Sacra-
mento Valley today, isolatiLg
Oroville, inundating the town
of Biggs, and creating a wide
spread flood zone in that
vicinity. More than 400 are
reported homeless.
Still mounting as the crest of the
flood approached. a surging over
flow from the Feather river swept
into Biggs, community of 1000
people, during the night, and had
reached a depth of one foot in the
business district early this morning.
Orchards Under Water
Surrounding lowlands, including
hundreds of acres of fine orchards
near Gridley, were flooded, the
water reaching depth Of several
feet in some sections.
At Yuba city and Marysvllle,
water broke through the levees in
spots and crews of workmen fought
to keep back the torrent. Scores OF
families were forced to quit their
homes, it was reported.
The final flood crest was ex-
pected to tax levees of the Sacra-
mento river at knights Landing.
where it was estimated the water
would come within three feet Of
flood stage.
Bulwarked behind towering bikes
and with the flood gates OF ITS
giant bypass flung wide to divert
tba new wall of water, Sacramento
was declared by n. r. Taylor, Gov
eminent observer to be in no dan
ger. The great diversion canal,
though, is expected to carry more
water than the river when the peak
reaches this city.
WinOosh River Rises
MONTPELIER, VT, Mrch IL
FIood.to roads and bridges In new
england were again threatened to-
day by the rising of streams ana
brooks. swollen by the melting
SHOWS and ice.
Because of the high water on the
Winooski River, Burlington was al
most isolated as completely as dur
ing the great floods of last Novem-
Ter. The pontoop bridge between
that city and Winooski, was re-
moved, the other bridge being closed
because of the deep mud on both
approaches.
While the water was not re-
ported very high i'm Montpelier, the
city of Barre reported that Potash
Brook, terrific little stream that
caused the death of Lieut.. Gov.
Hollis jackson i'm November. flooded
the main street, including the bust.
ness section.
Conditions in the Connecticut
Valley below the Massachusetts,
state line were not expected to be
serious, due to the lack of snow.
Ice Jams Wisconsin River
MADISON, Wis. March 27.-Loss
OF life and heavy property damage is
threatened along the upper reaches
of the flooded and ice-jammed Wis
consin River, according TO reports
reaching here today.
Continued rainfall and melting
snow over the northern watershed
has sent the river to a, dangerous
flood stage. Power houses and
other buildings built along it's rapids
are threatened with destruction
from ice jams.
Reports reaching here tell of
daring rescues of persons and live
stock trapped by the rising waters.
To date no loss Of life has been re.
ported.
The Washington times., 1928-03-27
RAID REVEALS
$1,000 LOOT

The arrest of four men and two
women early today and the seizure
of two truck loads Of assorted loot
worth about $500 may clear up
the series of robberies here and in
Prince Georges county, police be-
lieve. The articles recovered III
cIude radio sets, toys, batteries, au-
tomobiIe tires and clothing EVIL
IDENTIFY taken from tailor shops.
The combined Investigations OF
Sheriff Charles S. Harley and men,
bers of the homicide squad of De-
tectiye Headquarters led to the ar.
rest and recovery of the property.
which was found in a house near
the District line.
Those held are Henry Thomas
Green, 81; Lewis Settler, %; Emma
Amelia Green, Sc, and Ada Green,
II all of Seat Pleasant, Md. and
Joseph Ellsworth Green, 10. of
Forestville, Nd, and Ray Noble, 20.
of Warren, Ohio. Owners of stores
in nearby Maryland and the District
which have been robbed recently
will be asked to identify the recov-
cred articles.
The prisoners are charged with
being fugitives from justice from
Prince Georges county, although q
number of local cases are pending
against them.
The Washington times., 1928-03-27

ALTHOUGH SLIGHT improvement was noted today.
physicians at Casualty Hospital still fear for the lie OF
Miss MAY Mitchell IT, of 1912 Thirty-seventh ST. N. E.
who was injured when automobile in which she was
riding with three other girls and three boys went over an
embankment Mt. Rainier Nd while Trying TO aVoio
another machine Miss Marjorie Roberts, SIS ST. N En-
slightly injured
The Washington times., 1928-03-27
NJ DONALD Girl
WRACKED BY
REMORSE
BY international News servics

BY International News Services
MONTREAL, Quebec, March
.27-Stricken with remorse and
moaning over and over, "How
can I atone?" Doris Melon.
aid, the Titian-haired Mount
Vernon, N. Y. flapper who was
saved from the gallows at Val
leyfield prison by an eleventh-
hour reprieve, is today almost
a physical and mental wreck.
Ever since her former sweetheart
George McDonald-the youth she
used to call ''IIoney"-was exc.
cuted last Friday for the murder
of a taxicab driver, Doris has been
inconsolable.
"Oh, George, George, George" she
mutters again and again.
All day long, and often far into
the night, she sits huddled in q
corner of her cot, moaning, Sobbing
and praying.
She cannot eat and has had but
fitful moments Of sleep since the
execution, according to sisters OF
the Order of Good Shepherd, who
have been attending her. They
quoted her as saying:
George died for the crime they
said we both committed. My G0d,
how can / ever atone for all that
4 have been? How can / face the
future that waits for me?"
The future is indeed black. She
is to be removed to the Portsmouth
Penitentiary at Kingston, Ontario,
to serve a life sentence.
She will not leave for some time,
however. owing to her physical con-
dition. She is under the constant
care of the prison doctor.
The Washington times., 1928-03-27
Taliaferro to Speak
At Charities Meeting

District Commissioner Sidney II
Taliaferro and DIR. Edward T. De-
vine, dean of the Graduate School
of the American University, wiz
be the speakers tonight at the
fifty.seventh anniversary meeting OK
the Associated Charities In Bar
ker Hall, Y. w. C. A. building at
Seventeenth and K Streets. Ccrcpran
Thorn will preside and the subject
of the, evening will be Does
Family Welfare. Work Pay?".s
A motion picture, "a Day 1T
Camp Good WIZ. produced last
summer. will be shown for the
first time. The Easter campaign
for the current years family well
fare work, the budget for which
has been greatly increased owing
to the continued expansion u the
urgent calls for relief. will also %
launched at the meeting.
The Washington times., 1928-03-27

When q mud bail was lecesyEd
yesterday from A. H. HoIlonnan, OF
Frederick, Okla. Harold J. Cook.
honorary curator, opened it to find
what was inside To his great sur
prise, out hoped = toad. apparently
in normal physical condition.
Officials of the museum said they
have no reason to believe the Incl
dent is hoax on the part of the
Oklahoma quarry owner but they
declined to hazard any statement
as to how old the toad might be.
Cook, however, was willing to ex-
plain his reason for placing the
The Washington times., 1928-03-27

estimate on the age OF the mud bali
and toad.
THE mud bali bears unmistak-
able evidence of. belonging to- the
first interglacial, or Aftonian pc
Rod" said. Cook. That would
make it about three quarters OF a
Il am familiar with the place
where it was found. 1t Is the bed
of prehistoric steam; which is now
hilltop. A number of fossil bones
and implements ct prehistoric man
have been found in the same vicinity.
The Washington times., 1928-03-27
DUKE ALUMNI TO DINE

The Washington alumni of Duke
University will hold dinner to.
night in the Hamilton Hotel. Sem
ator Lee S. Overman, of North
Carolina; DR.. William Preston Few,
president of Duke, and DIR. John
Franklin CrowelI former president,
will be guests Of honor.
The Washington times., 1928-03-27
PRESBYTERIANS TO DINE

The Washington committee of the
National Presbyterian Church VIII
hold a dinner meeting tonight at the
Cosmos Club. Representatives Guy
e. Campbell, Clement c. Dickinson
Albert r. Hall. Clifford r. Hope
and Henry w. Temple will be
guests of honor
The Washington times., 1928-03-27

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outfits mi
in
the albums
Washington
OF
her daughter Helen after church Easter Sunday scene outside St johns
Mrs Robert NJ La Toilette also IN the parade At the
bunny II a
The Washington times., 1928-03-27

Look for the Zain signs on 80
atOres In Washington. Then write
an advertisement In the Times.
Zaiu Ad Test
The Washington times., 1928-03-27
$50, 600 ". Old I Dad
Hops Out OF Mud

DENVER, March 27.-City Park Museum here was pop
ar place curiosity seekers today because Of the arrival
estimated OF million years Old
Evening star., 1928-03-17

attacking Esch's action In the lake cargo
case. After the executive session. Neely
said the vote 'is very emphatic warning
that the Senate will not tolerate the
packing OF these important commits
sions by President Coolidge in favor OF
Pennsylvania or any other section, or in
favor of any particular interests Of the
country"
In minority report from the inter-
state commerce committee, Senator Fess
declared that from the standpoint Of
ability and experience, Esch was "emi-
nently fitted for the position and from
the basis Of honesty and integrity he
is equal to the best in public life."
Minority Report.
The minority report called attention
that in between his two votes. Esch, like
all other members of the commission,
had the benefit OF extended further
hearings. mass Of further evidence
which embraced some 1000 pages. and
two days OF oral argument before the
full commission"
Esch. who had been serving under a
recess appointment since his first term
expired three months ago, is co-author
of the Esch-Cummins railroad act. Be-
fore going on the commission he served
% years as a member of the House and
i8 years on It's interstate and foreign
commerce committee.
Born near Norwalk, Wis. March 20.
1861. his first appointment to the COM
mission also was contested, but he won
out easily. 50 to g. In April, 1921.
Fighting Bob La Toilette, OF the same
State, who led the opposition then. con-
tended ESch had been consistently
friendly TO the railroads.
Evening star., 1928-03-17
Defends COPLEY PRESS.
Vice President OF Firm Denies Charge
: In Letter.

CHICAGO. March IL Opl.-Replying
20 the letter made public yesterday by
Senator Norris OF Nebraska, which
charged that former Representative Ira
Copiey was acquiring chain OF news
papers 70 aid public utilities. John
Calian OLaughlin. vice president OF
the Copley Press. Inc. last night sent
a telegram TO the Senator denying the
letters statements.
The telegram follows:
The Associated Press announces you
have asked the Federal Trade Comnlis-
sion TO investigate the recent purchases
OF newspapers in Illinois and California
by Ira c. Copley. suggesting a connec-
ton between such purchases and the
financing Of public utility power cor
porations.
Mr.. Copiey is in Europe, but know
II he were in the United States ne
would demand that the investigation
Be pasfed to the fullest extent. and
would insist that you present all the
evidence or information in your posses
sion which might directly or indirectly
relate 70 such alleged connection. As
&'ice president of Copley Press, Inc. !
am in charge in Mr. Copiey's absence.
and wish TO say there is not ana never
has been any connection direct or In
direct between Mr.. Copleys acqutst-
1ion OF newspapers and the public util-
it5es industry.
II shall be In Washington on Mon
DAY and will be glad TO testify before
the commission or q committee OF the
Eense as to the absolute Independence
o, all the CopIey newspapers OF any
Interests OF any kind whatsoever"
Evening star., 1928-03-17
DEFEAT OF ESCH FOR |. C. C.
GROWS OUT OF RATES FIGHT
Southern Soft Coal Region
RetaIiates for Failure to
Get Reduction.
Commissioners Vote in Fa-
vor of Northern Fields Leads
to His Defeat.

BY the Associated Press.
Defeated In their fight before the
Interstate Commerce Commission for
lower freight rates on lake cargo coal
the States In the Southern soft-coal
region have retaliated by waging a Sue
cessful drive against confirmation of
John j. Esch of Wisconsin for Sec
ond term on the railroad regulating
body.
Esch, who had served on the COM
mission for six years prior to his re-
nomination by President Coolidge last
December. lost his fight for confirma-
ton late yesterday when the Senate,
after five hours of debate behind closed
doors. rejected the appointment, SO
TO 20.
The opposition. led by Senators from
the Southern coal States, was based
almost entirely on the 67-year-old COM
missioner's change Of attitude In the
long pending contest between the
mines Of Pennsylvania and Ohio and
those of West Virginia. Kentucky, Ten
nessee and Virginia. for the lake cargo
coal. whereby he favored. after once
opposing. lower rates for the Northern
fields.
The commission recently rejected a
petition Of Southern railroads for a
20 cents a ton reduction in lake cargo
coal transportation charges. and the is
SUE Is under consideration for possible
court action.
Senator Nicely, Democrat, West Vir-
gnia. who led the fight against confir-
nation. charged Esch, who also voted
against the Southern roads cut pro-
posai. had switched his vote on the
Northern proposition because of pres
sure from Pennsylvania and the admin
istration.
Chairman Watson OF the interstate
commerce committee, which had re-
ported adversely on the nomination
and Senator Fess, Republican. Ohio
supported Esch. calling attention to his
emphatic denial at the committee hear
inss that political pressure had caused
him to change his vote.
Senators Glass OF Virginia and Reec
of Missouri, Democrats, aided Nicely ir
the battle against confirmation. botf
Evening star., 1928-03-17

The fact that Ireland's patron saint
was not Irish. but either English or
French. and that uncertainty exists as
10 whether one should celebrate his
birthday today or commemorate his
death. or both. did not deter the Capt.
tails Irish from going right ahead with
dav.
It was apparent that all the pessi-
mistic genealogiSts In the world. aided
and abet5d by veritable armies Of dis
putative chronologists. could not FORE
stall today the "wearin' of the green
III honor of the first Bishop Of Ireland.
Somebody even has had the teTerity
TO assert that st. Patrick never so
much as drove the snakes out Of Ire
land. because there never were any
there to speak Of. anyway. Some critical
hagiologists--those roSey persons who
INQUIRE into the lives and times OF
saints and Such--contend. moreover.
that ST. Patrick was neither born nor
elevated to st. Peters throne on March
IL but that the day was selected as a
compromise.
Held English Born.
Most authorities seem to agree that
Glastonbury. England. but others claim
to have traced his birthplace to Tours.
France. At any rate. 1t seems, he was
kidnapped by pirates and sold as slave
10 the then wild Irish natives. To
make a long story short. Patrick sue
ceeded in civili2ing and converting the
hesthen Irishmen and he has been their
hero ever since
AS ever is their wont, members OF the
Evening star., 1928-03-17
SOCIETY OF NATIVES
PLANS ANNUAL PARTY
Cards and Dancing Will Replace
Banquet at Celebration
: April 90.

card party and dance entertainment
April 20 will replace the banquet with
which the society Of Natives Of the Dis
tyict of Columbia heretofore has cele-
b.s,ed its anniversary, IL vas decided 81
the monthly meeting Of the society last
night a. the Washington Club, Seven
tenth ard X streets.
As the proposed anniversary snsir
vas presented 10 the members present
lsst night b. Lee d. LatimfT. pre- ident
wflo Soalghs the opinion of the bociety
or the change from the customary ban
01et. IL VIII be he'd In the washington
EluD ard VIII include, IN addition 10
dancing and card tables for thoEs who
wish 70 play, O. program of entertain
Inent Plans for the celebration Will Dc
Ensde shortly
Ia the business meeting os the socisty
last night Mrs. Lyda l.. OIcheld and
Thomas q Spence we're elected 10
membership, Their names were pro-
tosso az eligible candidates by Ralph
J. Hail chairman Of the msn1aetship
committee ~ The suggestion ~ Percy
u, ISfSEl, resolutions 0f sympathy viii
b@ drafted and Dnt " the families oi
Hrs Ella Knignt MeArk. Gen. Cb2r!es
~ J1FSnd and AndTsw 7. Bradley
vbDss DEATHS since the last meeting
we're announced.
Hiss Margaret Forbes Jed the socifts
ST. the salute 70 tl1s ESg, Miss Emma A
Bright betfetsry. read the minutes, stc
5st i.stiInef pTesiceo
Entertainment NSA furnlEhsd at tBs
ECIclaslon " tus n1Ee ting by Cil6sfi
si4c kstnsn Cikfk. Mfg. n III. Fsnsi
ard Miss Della Underhili. yotsiiSas
HJs E.Is e. Robinson chairman ~ In
enlertsiEDAnt committee. wsE scc0m-
I6II4t
Evening star., 1928-03-17
WOMAN MOTOR|ST
FLEES ACCIDENT
Car Speeds Away After Hit.
ting Pedestrian-Pokce
Seek Driver.

Police today are on the lookout for
a young woman. richly dressed and
driving a hish-powered car who last
night struck and knocked down Jane
Cornish, op,ored, 10 years old, OF 3l2
B street southeast, seriously iniuring
her, and then left the scene OF the ac-
cident without making her identity
known.
Police say that the driver got out OF
her car after the accident. looked at
the victim and then drove away with
out Offering assistance. The accident
took place at Third and East Capitol
streets. The injured woman was taken
home In a passing automobile and
treated by her son. DIR. Louis Cornish.
for severe cuts on her face and head.
Floyd Blackburn. "a years old. l23
c street. was another victim OF hit
and-run driver. He was knocked down
at Fourteenth street and Rhode Island
avenue last night. At Emergency Hos
yital he was treated for bruises and a
possible fracture Of his right arm
Knocked down by one automobile
under the wheels OF another last night,
Harry L.. Arnold. 70 years old. 220 r.
streets northeast, escaped with minor
lsceration OF his scalp. Arnold WAS
thrown under a car driyen by DR..
George N. Crayson. 1888 New Hamp-
shire avenue. and run over. The doctor
tD0k him TO Sibley Hospital wnere hc
| received treatment.
Seven other persons received slight
| injuries as results of trafIic accidents
last night. All Of them are pedestrians.
They were: Ernest T.. Dack, ~, 1I3J
| New Hampshire avenue j. Harry
Eaton, So. 404 Eighth street northeast
Dennis Thompson, colored, 81, 2204
ninth street; Herman Holmes, cOlored
81. n. r.. d, Eallst0n, Va. William A
| Eutsr. ~, Brunswick, Md: Hiram John.
| son. ~. Wo0dgide PARK. Nd, and Maiol
J. Wood, c0lored. ~. 2lg r street,
Evening star., 1928-03-17
S1,ODO,0l0 RAISED
BY ELECTRIC FIRMS
Fund Used Partly to Give
Public Their Views, Trade
Body Learns.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The National Electric Lighting Asso-
citation has submitted to the Federal
Trade Commission figures showing that
the organization collected slightly more
than 1000 900 from Its member con-
Germs in the fiscal year which ended in
June, 1927. The statistics we're presented
in the commissions investigation OF
Public Utility Power Co. financing under
the Walsh resolution.
The statement said that a portion OF
this amount limited by the conStitu-
ton of the organization to so per cent.
was turned over to subsidiary organiza-
tions in IL geographical districts. The
remainder was used to meet the running
expenses Of the association and for the
issuance Of pamphlets to the public and
to employees OF the power companies for
radio lectures, moving pictures and
advertising.
The statement is to be amplified in
oral testimony before the commic sion.
At preliminary hearing 1t was testified
that the membership Of the association
includes the producers OF 90 per cent in
kllowatt hours of the electrical energy
generated in the United States.