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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
CHURCHES Benefit
UNDER TWO WILLS
Documents Filed for Probate Also
Include Requests to District Wei
fare Organizations.

Several local institutions are the re-
cipientS of requests under Two Wills nieo
for probate in District Supreme Court
today.
The Church of the Atonement, Rhode
Island avenue and u street northeast,
ana the Luther Home for the Aged are
named beneficiarieS under the terms cf
the will left by James M. Hines, who
died March 10.
Upon the death of one of his sons,
Wilbur Hines, the principal OF $4,000
is to be given to the Church OF the
Atonement and an additional $4,000
upon the death of his wife, Maud M.
Hines The sum of $4,000 also is TO
be given to the Lutheran Home for the
Aged at the death of the wife, both
of these amounts to be paid out OF
$4,000 bequeathed to her.
If there is any balance from the estate
after all claims are settled the win
provides that 1t shall go to the most
needy Lutheran Church or Lutheran
mission in the District, the same to
be decided by the administrators and
two Lutheran pastors.
To his son. Robert S. Hines, $4,000
is bequeathed, and another $4,000 Is
left to son, Marvin Hines. Seminar
nual payments of $50 over a period of
five years are provided for the choir OF
the Church of the Atonement and the
Luther League of that church.
The estate involves real estate valued
at $4,000. Clyde j. Crouch and Maud
NJ. Hines are named the executors.
Under the will of Caroline M. Hocke-
meyer several sums are bequeathed.
|, These include 5000 to the Masonic
and Eastern Star Home, on Sligo Mil
road; $500 70 the Christian and Elenora
Rupert Home. on Good Hope road,
Anacostia, and $500 to the German
Orphan Asylum, Good Hope road, Ana
Costa For the upkeep of the memorial
room dedicated to John and Carolina
Eockemeyer at the Masoic and Eastern
Star Home an additional sum of 500
| is left.
The residue of the estate goes to her
nieces, Irene Hazel, Caroline Grundling
Sartain, Ruth Doheney and Elenora
Sartain Numerous requests are made
| to various relatives The American
Security e Trust Co. is made exacu-
tor of the estate. the WIN having been
dated July 81 last.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
BALTIMORE NJ. T.
CONFERENCE OPENS
145th Session Will Last
Through Next Monday
Afternoon Here.

The 145th session of the Baltimore
Annual Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church began today at the
Foundry Church, Sixteenth and Church
streets, with Bishop Herbert WEIGH OF
Pittsburgh as presiding bishop. Con-
ference examinations for the admission
of new members were held this morn
ing.
More than half the members have
arrived and by tomorrow morning ap-
proximately 800 ministers who compose
the conference are expected to be in
Washington. The Cairo Hotel has been
designated as the official headquarters
and many of the members are stopping
there.
Conference to Las: a Week.
The conference, which is held yearly
in Washington or a city of Maryland
or Northern Virginia, will continue
throughout the week and adjourn Mon
day afternoon. Friday, Saturday and
Sunday the second annual Council of
Epworth League and Young Peoples
Work will hold its sessions in the Ham,
line Church, Sixteenth and Allison
streets. The Laymen's Association of
the Baltimore Conference will convene
for one day, Thursday, and the Lay
Electoral Conference, the Legislative
body of the district, will meet Friday
and discuss the admission of laymen
to the annual conference.
This afternoon Bishop WEIGH was
ready to meet the district superintend-
ents of the conference in the Cairo
Hotel and map out plans for the week
The superintendent include Rev. H
Wilson Burgan of Baltimore, Rev. Clar-
o,.oo vxyico If noIfiv,,nro Dau UorVany,
N. Ridgely of Baltimore, Rev. Edwin
r. Mowbray of Frederick and Rev. j.
Phelps Hand of Washington. Rev. DR.
Frederick Brown Harris, pastor of the
Foundry Church, will also be present
as entertaining minister.
Bishop William Fraser Mcdowell, the
resident bishop, and two retired bishops
living in this city, Bishop John w
| Hamilton and Bishop Frank M. Bristol
are to take an important part in the
meetings of the conference.
Most of the speakers at the various
group meetings are from other confer
ences. Rev. Albert E. Kirk and Rev
N. E. Davis, who will speak to the
educational and philanthropic groups
| tonight at 8 o'clock, are both from
Chicago.
Bishop WEIGH to Speak.
/, Tomorrow Bishop WEIGH will make
| his first formal appearance before the
members of the conference with de-
votional address preceding a luncheon
at Foundry Church.
The Mutual Relief Association of the
conference will meet at 2:30 O'Clock
/ tomorrow afternoon, as will the Won.
ans Missionary Society. At o'clock
Rev. J. r. Wardle Stafford will give q
lecture before the assembled members
land the meeting Of the Board Omissions
and Church Extension will take place
In the evening.
Among those who will address thu
conference are DR.. Clarence True
Wilson of the Board of Temperance
Prohibition and Public Morals, and DR.
Ernest H. Cherrington Of the Anti.
Saloon League Of America.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
TWO BUS TERMINAL
SITES SUGGESTED
Square at New York, K, 10th
and 18th and Area at 10th
and E Urged to Commission.

Two additional sites for the proposed
union terminal for motor buses en-
gagged in interstate transportation were
offered to the public Utilities Commits
sion today by Washington real estate
agents. One is the square bounded by
New York avenue and K streets and
Tenth and Eleventh streets, and the
other is located at the southeast corner
of Tenth and E streets.
John w. ChildresS, chairman OF the
commission, indicated that either of the
sites would make good location for
the proposed terminal. While the Elev-
enth street and New York avenue prop
erty is not as centrally located as that
at Tenth and e streets, he pointed out.
that, as the business section gradually
is moving northward, 1t might event.
ually be in the heart of the shopping
and theatrical district.
Childress to Confer With Agent.
Mr.. Childress plans to confer tomor-
row with the agent for the property at
Tenth and e streets, who has told him
he is in a position to extend the pres
ent site If 1t Is found inadequate for q
bus terminal. The agent for this prop
erty also has asked permission to &C.
company Mr.. Childress and Earl v.
Fisher, executive secretary OF the COM
mission, on their tour Of inspection OF
bus terminals In other cities.
The inspection trip will be made fol
the dual purpose Of studying bus ter
minal construction as well as bus regu-
lation in other cities. Although the
itinerary has not been mapped out COM
pletely, Childress and Fisher intend te
visit those cities which have outstand-
ing bus depots. These include Cleve-
land. Detroit, Atlantic City, Charlotte
Nashville, Columbus. Wheeling, Pitts
burgh, Cincinnati and Minneapolis.
Committee to Consider Problem.
The bus terminal problem win be
considered by the public utilities COM
mittee Of the. washington Board OF
Trade at a luncheon meeting tomorrow
afternoon at 1880 o'clock, at the City
Club.
All phases of the subject will be dis
cuSsed by Chairman Childress, Mr.
Fisher and Police Supt E. W. Brown
in charge of the Traffic Bureau, who
has been strong advocate Of union
depot for motor busses.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
CRASH SAFEGUARD
URGED BY c. OF C.
Wants Public Vehicle 0per-
ators to Establish Financial
Responsibility.

The Washington Chamber of Com
merce, through its committee on police
and fire protection and public safety,
has started a movement to require the
operators of all motor vehicles and
trucks carrying passengers or freight
for hire to establish financial respon-
sibility to cover possible damages grow
ing out of accidents.
The proposed legislation would in
clude in its provisions taxicabS, motor
buses, trucks and vehicles operated by
hackers, some of which now are said to
operate without being able to show a
reasonable amount of financial re-
sponsibility to cover damages to Gus
toners arising from accidents during
operation.
Asks Bill Be Drafted.
The chamber committee at meet
ing yesterday adopted a resolution urg-
ing the preparation OF such legislation
and specifically asking the directors OF
the chamber to call on its committee
on law and legislation to draft bill.
Members of the committee, of which
Charles w. Darr, president of the
chamber, is chairman, declared that
under existing conditions some taxicabs
and vehicles of hackers are being oper-
ated for hire here, the operators Of
which cannot show financial response
bility. The committee urged that such
enterprises be forced to post bond OF
insurance policy or otherwise to estab-
lish such responsibility.
The committee also reiterated it:
former recommendation that there be
a periodic inspection of automobile
brakes and headlights as means Of
forestalling traffic accidents. The com.
mittee urged that motorists be given &
specific time to have these inspection:
made. and to be required to carry &
certificate to this effect.
Pledges Cooperation to Pratt.
The committee authorized the ap.
| pointment of q subcommittee to make
a survey of the living quarters of fire
and police stations, following report
| by Mr.. Darr that he had found tina
in some instances these provisions were
inadequate and not suitable for habi'
tation.
The committee adopted other resolu.
tions praising Maj. Edwin B. Hesse fol
his services as superintendent of police
and commencing the appointment Of
| former Police Inspector Henry G. Pratt
as his successor and pledging the CO.
operation of the chamber to the new
chief Of police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
DISTRICT HEADSO.K.
FIVE PROMOTIONS
IN POLICE CIRCLES
Changes Are Made on Rec
concentration Of Supt.
Pratt.
REORGANIZATION PLANS
CREATE NIGHT INSPECTOR
Present Assistant Superintendent
Would Thereby Be Relieved Of
Much Extra Work.

The District Commissioners today ap-
proved five promotions in the Police De-
partment created by the retirement OF
Maj. Edwin B. Hesse as superintendent.
The promotions were made on recon-
mendation of Maj. Henry @. Pratt, who
succeeded Mai. Hesse.
At the same time Mai. Pratt an
nounced plans for a reorganization OF
the administrative work of the depart
ment, which call for creating the oftice
of night inspector.
The night inspector will have charge
of the department at night in case OF
any emergency. He will be called on to
be present at three, four and five alarm
fires to conduct the police work neces-
sary, thus relieving the present In
spectors and assistant superintendent
Of much of their extra night work.
The new position is made possible
by the impending transfer Of Inspector
William S. Shelby to charge of the De-
tective Bureau. The personnel work OF
the department, hitherto In Inspector
Shelby's hands, will be placed in the
hands of Lieut.. L. I. H. Edwards.
According to the new scheme, In
spectors Thaddeus r. Bean, Albert J
Headley and Louis ]. Stoll viii alter
nate on the night work, each doing u
for a month. The other two will worl
in the day, each supervising half o.
the District, the division line being
Seventh street. At present inspector
Headley has charge of the section cas-
of Seventh street and Inspector Stol
of the District west of Seventh street.
The promotions approved by the Com
missioners were: Inspector E. w. Brown
of the Traffic Bureau, to be assistant
superintendent. Capt. Thaddeus r
Bean of the first precinct, to be in
spector. Lieut.. Ogden r. Davis, sta
toned at police headquarters, to b
| captain.
Sergt. James E. Bobo, first precenct, t,
be lieutenant. Pvt. William p. Barnes
tenth precinct. to be lieutenant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
GUIDE LICENSES
TO GET COURT TEST
Appeal Made Following Arrest
to Determine Legality Of
Police Regulation.

Police regulations providing for licens-
ing of city guides are to have their
constitutionality tested in the courts.
Pending an attempt to have an in
junction extended restraining police
from interfering, Judge Isaac r. Hit
today reserved his decision in the case
Of James j. Grace, a guide in the
Treasury Department, arrested when he
failed to secure license.
According 10 Defense Attorney George
E. Sullivan, a police regulation requir-
ing guides to public buildings and points
of interest, to pay license fee is un-
constitutional. Grace was arrested re-
Gently and charged with being an I'M
licensed guide by police, who seek to
make test case of the affair
Guides In public buildings Of Wash
ington are awaiting the outcome which
will determine the validity Of the regu-
lation. An Injunction preventing police
from nloselting Grace pending settle
ment of the case has been obtained in
the District Supreme Court and an at
tempt will be made to have 1t extended.
Assistant Corporation Counsel e. w.
Thomas Is prosecuting the case.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
MRS. MCCORMICK TO FIGHT
FOR FARM RELIEF AT SESSION
Has "PIenty of Legislation"
She Wants to Introduce
in House.
Hopes to Keep Special Con-
gress Meeting "Pure' for
Aid and Tariff.
BY MARTHA DALRYMPLE,
Associated Press stan Writer.

ASSOClateu fteSS 0thu writer.
Mrs. Medill Mccormick, newly elected
Representative from Illinois, has plenty
of legislation" that she is planning to
introduce during the regular session of
the Seventy-first Congress.
Refusing to discuss any further the
bills that she will bring up and fight for,
she declared that her present fight will
be to keep the special session, which will
open on April Is, pure" for farm re-
lief and tariff.
Says She's Farmers Friend.
This daughter of Mark Hanna and
widow of Senator Medill Mccormick
asserted that she is a farmers Repre-
sentative and will take her part in the
debate on the floor of the House in any
fight for proper relief, as well as in any
effort necessary to keep the session
closed to consideration of anything ex-
cept the two major problems.
II fought tooth and nail for the
McNary- Haugen bill and the equaliza-
ton fee," she said, land on the strength
of my stand on 1t won the election in
I will do on anything that is presented
ings. I will have to wait and see."
Business Interests Demand Time.
Her new congressional duties occupy
| only a part of the hours she puts in at
her desk during these days before she
is sworn in as member of the House
| The Rock River farms, at Rockford
ILL.,, and a newspaper that she has
recently bought at Rockford both de-
mand her time.
The routine business of being in Con-
| gress is not new to her. and she admits
! having a small start on other incoming
members because of the years she
served as a girl in the Office of her
father and later as an assistant to her
husband, both when he was in the
Senate and when he was Representative
at Large from Illinois.
But of course, no matter how much
you might know about the work, 1t is
always q different matter when you are
actually the Representative, with the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
CITIZENS GROUP PLANS
NARCOTIC LAW ACTION
Committee Named to Present Plea
to Harrison Law Author
About Drugs.

Characterizing drug not covered by
the Harrison act as habit-forming, mem-
bers of the Sixteenth Street Highlands
Citizens Association last night, in
resolution, urged specification Of 1t in
the law, and DR.. Willard F. Thompson
and DR.. Lewis Battle we're named q
committee to present the matter to
Senator Harrison Of Mississippi, author
of the act.
The association also urged the con-
struction Of curbing and guttering on
Fourteenth street north of Kennedy
street, and In another resolution called
upon the express companies operating
IN the District to extend their deliveries
and collections to all points within the
boundaries Of the District.
Or. Battle, president Of the associa-
ton, presided
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
MayAower and Sylph, Leave Navy Yard
Six Hours Apart to Be Decommissioned

the Navy list. The Sylph was ordered
disposed Of BY Secretary Adams follow
inc a recommendation by the Board OF
Inspection and Survey
Capt. Wilson Brown Is In command
Of the Mayfiower on her voyage to
philadelphia. He expects to take the
craft into the Philadelphia dock at noon
tomorrow following the trip up the open
sea. Decommissionin Of the vessel viii
REQUIRE several weeks, as her equipment
viii be stored carefully SO It may be
brought into active use II Mr.. Hover or
some future occupant Of 1900 Pennsyl-
yania avenue should desire further use
of the MaydoWer.
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1908 Persons Pay
Visit to Monument.
Setting Record

Another index of the great
tl1rong of visitors in the city was
seen today in the announcement
by Lieut.. Col. u. S. Grant, Sd, di-
rector of public buildings and
public parks, that the crowd
yesterday set a new record. H. r.
Owen, superintendent of the Po-
tomac Park group, reported to
Col. Grant that yesterday there
were 10,078 persons at the WASH
ington Monument, and that the
elevator made IS trips and carried
IS passengers on each one
throughout the day.
1.-THE elevator mechanism work.
ed very satisfactorily under the
heavy strain" Mr.. Owen re-
ported.
An estimate of the number Of
visitors at the Lincoln Memorial
showed that on Saturday there
were 5000, on Easter Sunday the
number jumped to $4,000 and
yesterday there were 1000. On
the three days the hours were ex-
tended and the Memorial was
open each night until 10 o'clock.
Six floodlights on the south side
and three on the north side with
general lighting were used. Most
of the visitors at night used the
wooden steps and there were no
accidents, Mr.. Owen reported.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02

SO great was the fear Of doctors
which dwelt in the breast Of Preston
Brooks, colored, % years old, Of 92l 9
street southwest, and so determined
was he to avoid them, that he tore on
4 door this morning In his effort to
escape the ambulance which was bear
ING him to Emergency Hospital.
Preston was struck on the head ana
chin with brick by another colored
man, for whom police are searching.
While he was still dazed the man went
through his pockets and took 81, ne
declared. He staggered into house on
Armory court, between Four-and-a-
Half street and Maine avenue south.
west. where the assault took place, ana
appealed for help. The ambulance was
summoned.
HIS thoughts stilI clouded BY the ef-
fects 81 the brick, Preston made no
protest. allowing himself TO be helped
into the ambulance. According to Dr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
Fear Of Doctors Inspires Injured Man
To Fight for Freedom on Way to Hospital

John Schwarzman of the staff, who was
riding beside the driver, the colored
man made his determined effort to
escape just as the conveyance turned
into the driveway which leads to the
entrance of the emergency room of the
hospital. without warning he made a
dash for the door, burst open the catch
and leaped out. The door swung wide
in time to strike an embankment along
side the roadway and was ripped on.
DR.. Oscar Norell, who had been rid
ing In the vehicle beside the injured
man, and DR.. Schwarzman, overlook
Brooks before ne had gone more than
dozen PAGES and were forced to al
most drag him into the hospital. There
he submitted to treatment. Three
stitches were taken In his scalp and
two In his chin. Then he was taken
to the sixth precinct. where he gave
police the name and description Of his
assailant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02

of other national and political groups,
including the one to which the aspiring
group has hitherto been politically sub
ject. If the status of sovereignty would
do the subordinate national group more
harm than good or, if concession of it
would result in grave injury to the DOM
inant state, the change could not be
justified by any such abstract principle
as the right of self determination In
any case, national minorities have a
right to maintain their language, GUS
toms, sense of unity and all eheir other
national characteristics so long as these
possessions are not clearly and gravely
detrimental to the welfare of the ma
jority or of the state as whole"
Difficult Ethical Question.
Whether a state is morally bound
to observe its treaties, according to the
report, is not self-evident but "a very
difficult ethical question. The state
which has compelled another state to
accept unjust commitments has no
valid right to their fulfillment. The
unjustly coerced state does not owe
fidelity to the offending state. But If
individual states were left ethically free
to decide whether an, agreement was
extortionate and whether it should be
kept, would not grave injury be done
to international good faith?
Possibly this is reasonable position
Unjustly imposed agreements which
cover performances and conditions OF
secondary importance are not always
morally obligatory, but the provisions OF
| treaties which terminate wars are uni
versally binding unless they have beer
made under extreme duresS and 1nfi1c,
an extreme amount of injustice. In the
latter case the notoriety of the injustice
would automatically free the coercec
nation from the unjustly imposed con-
| ditions."
Intervention by one state in the at.
fairs of another is sometimes required
| s'by the law of natural morality" says
| the report. Among the condition:
which Justify and require it are grave
and long continued oppression OF ont
state by another, the revolt OF people
/ or nation against intolerable tyranny
the unsuccessful efforts Of state t.
nut down a rebellion which injure
national or international welfare, grossl!
\ immoral practices such as cannibalisn
/ and human sacrifices under the guis
of religion ana continued dlhICiiy Al
state that is for the present unable Y
maintain tolerably competent govern
ment. AZ. "a.
torical record Of the Catholic Churcl
in nromotion of peace was discussed b,
Rev. Charles C. Miltner of Notre Dam
university and the work OF the las
| three Popes in behalf Of peace BY D. l
MAYNARD Gray of New York. The newe
attitudes toward peace were describes
by w. M. T. Gamble Of Washington.
AT a luncheon meeting the work 9
European groups to bring about bet
ter understanding of international re
lations was discussed by Elizabeth
Sweeney OF washington, Michael
DOYLE Of Philadelphia. Anna p. Gambl
!. LOT York, Pa. and Rev. Gregory Eeig
J Of New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02

Two Of the Potomac Rivers most ia
nous vessels sailed down the channel
within six hours today bound for de-
commissioning.
The u. 8. s. Maydower, presidential
yacht, which President Hoover recently
ordered taken out of service. left the
local navy yard for the Philadelphia
yard, where she win be locked and her
equipment stored.
The U. S. s. Sylph, yacht of the Sec
rotary Of the Navy, sailed out of the
Washington yard at noon for the Nor
folk Navy Yard, where she viii be sold
or otherwise disposed OF after she has
been decqmmissioned and stricken from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-02
AIR MAIL LINE OPENS.

CLEVELAND, April 2 CP).-Air mail
between Cleveland, Detroit, Pontiac,
Saginaw, Flint and Bay City, Mich,
was inaugurated today when Pilot
Ralph Devore left the Cleveland airport
at 3:15 am. In one of the planes of the
Thompson Aeronautical Corporation.
Regular pilots on the run besides De-
wore. whose home is In Bay City, will be
G. w. March of Bay City and Eddie
Preston of Pontiac.
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TENNIS COURTS TO OPEN.

F. w. Hoover, general manager of
the Welfare and Recreational Service
Of Public Buildings and Public Grounds,
Inc, announced today that as result
of the favorable weather it will be pos
sible to open some of the tennis courts
much earlier this year than usual.
Three groups of courts will be opened
at 6 am. Thursday, unless bad weather
intervenes. These courts are: The
Reservoir courts, at Sixteenth and Ken
nedy streets; the Potomac courts, To-
Gated in Potomac Park near the Tidal
Basin, and the Henry courts, located
in Henry Park, at Seventh and B
streets.