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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06

members. So the ''irreconcilable
Democrats" have threatened to join
with the Republican House members
and take the power away from Street
by naming a committee on committees.
The committee on committees would
name the committees of the House in
violation of the House rule which gives
the speaker that power. The main OBJ
iective is the investigating committee
and appropriations committee. The in
vestigating committee will have the
power of directing the investigation OF
Johnston's administration, and the APP
preparation committee would be a power
to force Representatives with State In
situations in their counties into line.
Of the 104 House members, 81 are
Democrats and AZ are Republicans. The
Republican members have bound them
selves as a unit and are attempting 10
STAY clear of the Democratic fight SO far
possible, with the view OF turning the
State Republican in 1880.
Gov. Johnston declares he Is not
worried over the outcome OF the legas-
lative session. He stated that a thor
ough and fair investigation should be
made of all departments.
BIames Opinions of Few.
He attributed the attacks made
against him to the opinions OF a few
who serve as poison squad, hlbernat-
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Pourbus, and a portrait of Charles
Lamb by Sir John Watson Gordon are
also shown. Other artists represented
are Jan de Baen, Millet, Vibert, Au-
eustus John, Bonnat and Won Lenbach.
The furnishings of the Pulitzer home
include a number of old hangings and
Oriental rugs. old French furniture and
salon suites of silk brocade and
ighteenth-century Aubusson tapestry
as we'll as European porcelains, and
Chinese and japanese mineral carvings,
several mounted as lamps.
The miniatures of the Gould collec-
ton of art objects include examples by
Nicholas and Lawrence billiard, the
two divers, John Hoskins and three
miniature portraits attributed to Hans
Holbein. There are also several small
paintings by the eighteenth-century
artists, Englehart, Cosway, Plimer and
OziaS Humphrey.
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ing in the hotel Hobbies Of this city"
Apparently he has no intention OF
dismissing Mrs. Hammonds and she
does not expect to resign. MRS. HAM
monds Is known to be a power in the
executive office. She moves in ana
out of the Office and sits in on I'M
portant conferences.
with the fire directed on her she
will not talk for publication. Polltl-
cal opponents of the governor assert
she Is the woman governor" Gov.
Johnston declared she was a faithful
employee who can be depended upon.
Political enemies assert she Is
liaison officer, serving between the gov
ernor and a ring of political nanipu-
lators of which her uncle, Judge James
r. Armstrong, is the chief adviser OF
the governor. The governors friends
declare she serves as watch dog 10
keep the grafters from the executive
Office.
The State Highway Commission has
favored asphalt contractors, with
asphalt roads costing about $1,000 a
mile more than concrete. Consequent
ly, asphalt and concrete are mixed up
In the political fight.
The anti-administration forces con-
tend it is patronage for the asphalt
contractors with few miles of paving
for the public. The governors friends
assert the cement trust" has lost its
hold on the State and, naturally, 1t
wants him ousted.
Board to Be Reorganixed.
Regardless of the outcome of the
attempt to impeach, the State Highway
Commission will be reorganized. in the
opinion of most politicians. The hard
surfacing Of the States 6,o00-mile
highway system has been done In
patches. There is demand for more
road work and agitation for bond
issue.
The anti-administration Legislators
plan to rewrite the highway law and
create a three-man commission in
place of the present fiye-man COM
mission.
The commission functions by ap-
pointment of the governor and con-
firmation of the Senate. The oppon-
ents of Johnston plan to take the
commission entirely away from the
governor if Johnston is not impeached
A bill for bond issue of 100000
900 or more is in the making, to be
introduced, but it Is believed the pub
lie will not vote bond issue until
sufficient confidence Is established In
the highway commission to assure pub
lie trust in the administration of the
funds
John and Richard Weber, twins, oil
| Swansea, Wales, were 70 recently.
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MEXICAN INFLUX
DENIED BY DAVIS
Charges in Connection With
Harris Bill Are Branded
as "UnWarranted."
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary of Labor Davis, in a letter
laid before the Senate yesterday, re-
piled to a charge by opponents of the
Harris bill that if the Mexican border
We're adequately" guarded no change
would be necessary in the present law.
The measure proposes that Mexico be
placed under quota restrictions Of the
immigration act.
Asserting that the charge was "un-
warranted" and implying that the Blu
reau of immigration and the depart
ment are neglecting to enforce the i'm
migration laws as far as the Mexican
border is concerned" the Secretary said
that during recent years we have sue
ceeded in enforcing the law so far as
applicants for regular admission are
concerned to an extent which I think
is fairly comparable with such enforce
ment at seaportS of entry and on the
Canadian border"
Letter Answers Harris Inquiry.
The letter was written in answer to
an inquiry made by Senator Harris,
Democrat, of Georgia, sponsor of the
bill. who asked for a reply to the charge,
which. he said, was the big objection"
raised to the measure.
The Secretary said figures for the
fiscal year ending June 80 show there
was no Important difference between
the visas issued and the immigrants
admitted"
The Secretary declared, however, that
"the problem Of aliens who are admit
ted to the United States as temporary
visitors for business or pleasure and who
fail to depart within a stipulated time.
of course, exists on the Mexican border,
lust as it exists at Canadian border
ports"
Figures he included in the letter
showed that from 1921 to 1928 total
of 397.753 Mexican immigrants have
been admitted. an annual average OF
49,7l9. Senator Harris bill would per-
nit only about $500 to enter yearly.
'IlIiteracy Law No Barrier"
Explaining a marked increase" IN
1928 and 1924, the Secretary declared
that the increased immigration in
those years is simply another indication
of the fact that the provisions OF the
law relative to illiteracy and physical
condition afford no adequate barriers
as far as numbers is concerned.
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Of ART
WORKS TO Be SOLD
Pulitzer, Gould Estates Por-
traits to Be Disposed
of by Association.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 5.--The col
lection of Italian, Dutch and English
portraits from the estates of the late
Joseph Pulitzer and of the late Edith
Kingdom Gould, the contents of the
Pulitzer home at East Seventy-third
street and the Gould collection of
miniatures, fans and snuff boxes will be
disposed of shortly by the American
Art Association. The portraits OF the
Pulitzer collection and the whole OF
the Gould collection were put on exhibi-
ton yesterday morning at the Ameri-
can Art Galleries, and the contents OF
the Pulitzer house can be seen today
and tomorrow at the house.
The portrait exhibition includes the
famous Titan painting of Antonio
Grimani, Doge of Venice, which has
passed through the collections of the
Palazzo Grimani, Venice; Countess
Mathilde Berchtold-Strahan, Chevaliel
Friedrich Won Rosenberg, Frishof
Charles Sedelmeyer, F. 0. Matthiessen
and others. The portrait shows the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-06
PROGRESS THREATENS
VOLTAIRE'S OLD HOME
Geneva Haven OF French Author
as Refugee Now Used as
Apartment.

GENEVA tP.-Heroic efforts are be-
ing made to preserve the house at Ge-
neva occupied by Voltaire, the great
French philosopher and historian.
This house, called 1.-THE Delight" Oes
Delices) and situated in the heart OF
old Geneva, was Voltaire's home fol-
many years. The writer had lost favor
with King Louis XIV and had taken
refuge in Prussia. Dissatisfied there, ne
came to Geneva IN 1854, seeking, as he
said, a land of liberty.
Later Voltaire abandoned ''The De-
light" and moved to Ferney, just across
the French border, where he lived fol
20 years. The famous house is now
used for apartments, and the owners
want to replace it with a modern struc-
ture. Voltaire's friends wish to buy il
and hand it down to posterity as a his
toric monument.
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CONFISCATED RUM BOAT
SUNK BY COAST GUARD
Sound of Firing Causes Fears OF
Encounter at Sea-Shots
Put Holes in Hull.


PALM BEACH, Fla, January s.
Heavy firing heard at sea near jack
sonviiIe and the failure of Coast Guard
vessel 294 to report to its base at Fort
Iauderdale caused fears that the YES
sci had got the worst of it in an en-
counter with rum runners, but 1t turned
out that the 294 was merely sinking a
confiscated rum runner Heavy weather
had delayed the Government boats ar
rival at its base.
Boatswain Johnson, in charge Of the
294. brought her into Palm Beach to-
day shortly after search had been start
ed and reported that all was well. He
had started out from Jacksonville with
a confscated liquor boat, but reported
that it had sprung leak and that he
had to sink it to prevent 1t becoming
a menace to navigation.
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Unidentified MAN HELD.
Atlanta Authorities Arrest Suspect
in Murder Inquiry.

in Murder Inquiry.
ATLANTA, January CP).-An I'M
identified man was taken into custody
by detectives today for questioning in
connection with the Staying month
ago of Robert M. Brandon, Junior
partner In firm of Atlanta morticians.
Although admitting they had no def
mite information to connect him with
the Staying, officers said they intended
to interrogate him concerning informa-
ton furnished by reputable citizen
that he arrived at home with blood on
his hands and clothes the night Bran
don was shot,
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John and Richard Weber, twins OF
Swansea, Wales, were 70 recently.
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FAV0RS DRY ELECTIONS.
Czech President Refuses to Sign
Bill Repeating Law.

PRAGUE, CzachoSlovakia, January 5
R-President Masaryk today refused
to sign a bill which would abolish the
present prohibition of the sale of liquor
during elections.
He referred the measure back to Par
lament with the declaration that the
results Of the recent elections demon
strated clearly that electors, even when
sober, commit enough mistakes to rem
der the old dry law imperative during
balloting.
Manchuria is taking steps to fight
any invasion of the bubonic plague
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stern old figure of the Doge sitting
erect. and looking slightly to the right.
Beside the Grimani Titan, which
acme from the Pulitzer collection, there
is a small portrait of Senator from
the Edith Kingdom Gould collection,
attributed to Titan.
Noted Portraits in Guild Group.
From the Guild collection are four
excellent full-length portraits OF the
golden age of English portraiture, nota-
bly, Hoppner's "Georgiana, Duchess OF
Bedford" formerly known as the ''Por-
trait of Lady Georgiana Gordon 1t
is a brilliant painting of an 18-year-
old girl. with curly brown hair, fresh
complexion and full red lips, painted
against q landscape background with
green foliage. 1t was painted about
1899, at the period of Hoppner's fun
maturity, and was formerly in the col
lection of the Duke of Berwick.
The portrait of Caroline, Duchess OF
Marlborough, painted by Sir Joshua
Reynolds, In 1767 and 1853, Is viva
cious picture of the Duchess. 1t is
from the collection of Lord Churchill,
Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire.
George Romney is represented with a
portrait of Richard Brinsley Sheridan,
the Irish playwright, painted about
1888.
The last of the four examples of the
great English painters is portrait of
Miss Gibbon as Miranda in THE Tenn
pest" by Sir Thomas Lawrence, show
ing the famous actress in her late
twenties.
Lawrence Portrait Included.
Another Lawrence portrait in the ex-
hibition, from the Pulitzer collection,
is one of the famous oval portraits of
Sir Walter Scott, painted in 1915. A
self-portrait by Hogarth portrait OF
Eleanor de Medici by the younger
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-31
Indy CREETS
kOEHL IN CITY
Lone Eagle, Anne Stop Off
on Hop to West.

Two famous f1iers and their wives
met at the crossroads of America
today, wished each other a happy
New Year in German and English,
and then separated.
Captain Herman Koehl, German
aviator, who with Commander Fitz-
maurice and the late Baron Huen-
field, flew from Europe to America
in the Bremen, accompanied by
Mrs. Koehl rushed from train here
at noon to Mars Hill airport to greet
Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh en- route across the continent.
Lindbergh waited for the Koehls
and after exchanging greetings with
the German fiier, autographed a
notebook. took off and circled the
field several times in compliment to
the German and vanished toward
st. Louis.
Captain and Mrs. Koehl will re-
main here a week as the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Kurtz,
Seventy seventh street. Mrs. KoehI
is niece of Mrs. Kurtz.
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MENINGITIS TAKES
TWO MORE LIVES:
WARMING SOUNDED

cases." he said. "Such an outbreak
usually continues more than four
weeks"
Carriers of the germs, inolated and
treated for several days, are being
cleared up" and permitted to pur-
sue their work, DR.. Morgan said.
With use of antiseptic treatment, the
carriers have been freed from the
germ.
Aid Given in Treatment
Use Of intervenus medication, the
injection of an antiseptic solution
in the blood stream, has aided in
treating the active cases at city hos
pital, Morgan asserted. Autopsies
on fatalities at city hospital have
shown that the germ is SO active in
some cases that the entire system
has been pentrated and all organs
Of the body affected.
DR.. Morgan declared that the sit
uation does not warrant a general
ban on public gatherings as long as
the public is cooperating by usir I
the antiSeptic treatment. Whether
schools will open Jan. 6 will be de-
termined later in the week, he said.
An increasing number of physi-
clans of the city are known to be-
Heve schools should not be reopened
until. the epidemic subsidies.
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Only One New Case Found,
but LuII May Be but
Temporary.

Two deaths and one additional
case of spinal meningitis were re-
ported to DR.. Herman G.. Morgan,
city health commissioner, today.
Health authorities were encouraged
over the fact that only one addi-
tional case was reported and con-
tinued to urge the public to use
mercurophen and mouth washes as
preventive
There have been thirty eight
deaths and sixty cases, including
fatalities, in the past three weeks
in Marion county.
Two More Dead
The deaths were: Charles Ochil-
tree, 54, of 412 East Court street,
and Elizabeth Smith, 19, Negro, of
921 Fayette street.
Robert Phelps, 80, Negro, of 2233
Eastern avenue, was taken to city
hospital with the malady.
DR.. Emmett Lamb was appointed
a special county physician in the
fight against the disease, DR.. Fred
A. Mayer, county physician an
nounced.
DR.. Morgan warned citizens to
continue preventive measures as the
lull in the epidemic may be tempo
rary only.
'It is to be hoped that the disease
has reached its peak, but it will be
unusual if Indianapolis has no more
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-31
BRO0KHART AID
PLEDGED BORAH
Iowa Senator Declares He
Intends to Hit Mellon.
BY PAUL r. MALLON
United Press Staff Correspondent


WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-Fire-
works set off by congressional drys
against prohibition enforcement
conditions thus far are only spark
lers compared with what is coming
when congress reconvenes, Senator
Brookhart (Rep., la said today.
Brookhart intends to direct an
attack largely at Secretary Mellon,
he said.
1t also became known today that
Senator Borah (Rep., Idaho, who
charged conditions. in enforcement
of the liquor permit system amount
to a scandal" had written letter
to President Hoover on the prohibi-
ton situation.
Dry critics of prohibition condi-
tions were supported in some re-
spects today by F. Scott Mcbride,
general superintendent of the Anti
Saloon League. He said political
pressure from wet senators has
forced appointment of federal
judges, district attorneys and other
officials unsympathetic to prohibi-
ton.
Brookhart, second only to Borah
as a senatorial dry campaigner,
said he was armed with material
concerning enforcement conditions
which he intends to present when
the senate again convenes, Jan. 6.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-31
STATE AID PROBLEM
SOLUTION IS NEAR

Backed by an opinion from At
torney-G General James M. Ogden.
giving his department the right to
apportion but SIS per cent, instead
of the 7-cent school revenues and
use the remainder for state aid, Roy
P. Wieshart, superintendent Of
public instruction, announced today
that he believed that present state
aid problems are solved.
Governor Harry G. Leslie con-
Cured in this opinion and indicated
that the present crisis can be worked
out without a special legislative
session.
'"The attorney-general's interpre-
tat:on Of the 1929 amendment to the
state aid law will give lis 81 300, 900
to care for current state aid ex-
penses," Wisehart explained.
This will be sufficient 70 take care
OF al legitimate expenditures if trus-
tees VIII cooperate in keeping down
costs.
There remains but the problem
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-31
PRICE CHANGE UNLIKELY
Newsprint VIII Remain at S55 a
Ton in 1880, Is Indication.
Bp Unitrd Press

BH tHilFn FTCSS
NEW YORK, Dec. 3l.-Informa-
ton which was interpreted as indi
eating that there is no immediate
likelihood of an increase in the price
of newsprint paper, and that the
price probably will remain at $55 a
ton during 1890. was announced
last night by the paper committee
of the American Newspaper Publish
erS' Association.
The announcement was that the
committee had learned from au-
thoritative sources" that the Cana
dian Paper and Power Company
and the Price Bros. Company, large
producers of newsprint and men,
bers of the Canadian Newsprint In
stitute, were notifying their GUS
toners that the 1929 price of S55
would be continued during the first
six months of 1880, without the pre-
vious requirement of a three-year
contract, carrying a SIS increase for
the last thirty months.
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Abandoning the Daven-
ports, whom they had bound,
the robbers sWarmed into the
street and were met by a vol
ley of shots. The robbers
sped to a waiting automobile,
set up their machine gun and
Curned its muzzle on the de-
termined posse.
Undeterred by tipping bullets, the
possemen poured volley after volley
at the bandits, and the desperadoes
threw their car into gear and sped
away. One of them was seen to
slump in his seat as though wounded.
Windows in surrounding buildings
were shattered by bullets, and many
structures were bullet-pierced.
Davenport said three of the rob-
bers knocked at the door of his home
at IL o'clock last night. He refused
them admittance, he said, but they
drew guns and forced their way in.
Davenport then was knocked un-
conscious by a blow from a pistol
butt, and when he recovered con-
seriousness both he and his wife were
bound to chairs.
He said the bandits questioned
him all night about the location of
the bank vault, the hour the time
lock would open it, and how much
money it contained.
After the robbers escape, authori-
ties of surrounding towns and viii
lagos were notified and roads or
dered patroled
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Hourly Temperatures

of the deficit to be solved. This is
estimated at around S1,000,OO0.
Should the chain store tax be
approved by the supreme court, by
next year, this will give us another
S800,0 900 to care for this deficit.
In my opinion this will be suffi-
cient.
Should the chain store tax be
disallowed by the court, the only
possible avenue of revenue to cover
the deficit is by legislative appro-
priation."
Governor Leslie was reassured by
the opinion of the attorney-gen-
eral and Wisehart's explanation.
He still feels, however, that much
Of the present plight would have
been avoided had the state aid been
transferred back to the board of ac-
counts, he said.
A bill to do this was sponsored by
him and failed. He says the Demo-
Gratis are as much to blame as the
Republicans for this defeat and
therefore must share the burden.
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BOY OF q STAMPS
MOTHER AS KILLER

who aided her in the gun battle. the
robbery of the Butler Pa) store
which preceded it, and the seizure
of an automobile from New Castle
citizen IN which they escaped.
The boy, according to Police Chief
Moran, was left by his mother, at
Benwood, w. Va. across the Ohio
river from Bellaire, in her flight
from the scene of the crime.
The boy. whose name is Donnie,
according to Chief Moran, related
calmly:
Mother shot a policeman"
The boy did not seem much
affected by the event, Chief Moran
said.
Bellaire police are also holding
the boys uncle and his grandfather
with whom his mother left him.
They viii be questioned, In an effort
to learn in what direction the
woman and her companion fed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-31
DISPLAY new FORDS
Models Out Today Embrace
Body improvements.

BIZ United Press
DETROIT, Dec. 31.-New model
Ford cars with the new body design
were to appear in SnoWroomS of
Ford dealers throughout the United
States today.
The chassis and engine Of the new
model remain unchanged from the
famous model A, except for slight
improvements.
The new body design is intended
to give the impression Of a lower,
speedier car than the old model
Ford. Narrower radiator, higher
and longer hood, sGreamline mould
ings, lowered top, smaller wheels
and longer sweeping tenders, con-
tribute to the new design.
The enlarged body provides in
creased riding space. All metal parts
are made of rustless steel, and the
wheels or 19-inch steel spoke, with
larger tires, designed to grip the
roadbed more firmly.