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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-17
W|CKERSHAM HITS
PLAN FOR 2.bBEER
Chairman Doubts if Dyer's
Proposal Would Solve Pro-
hibition Problem.

BY the Associated Press.
Chairman Wickersham of the Hoover
Law Enforcement Commission said to-
day he did not think the proposal for
2.75 per cent alcohol in beer, as con-
tanned in the bill of Representative
Dyer, would meet the prohibition prob
lem.
Chairman Wickersham made this
statement at the Capitol after he had
appeared before the Senate judiciary
committee on the Norris proposal for a
Senate investigation Of prohibition en-
forcement.
Before the Senate committee Wicker
sham said he could see no good in the
suggestion that the Senate investigate
prohibition enforcement.
Favors Enforcement Unit Change.
He urged instead that the Senate pass
the House bill 10 transfer the dry en-
forcement machinery from the Treasury
to the Justice Department. This trans
fer was recommended by the commits
sion.
Wickersham insisted there had been a
STEADY improvement" In the dry law
enforcement of recent months. He said
the commission probably would make
another report to Congress, before the
session ends, on its investigations into
prohibition.
Smiling broadly when asked about
the 2.75 beer proposal, Wickersham
said:
II don't think that would satisfy a
ROBUST TASTE"
He did not expand that particular
statement.
Wickersham was before the committee
two hours. No vote was taken on the
resolution for the prohibition investigo-
ton.
"There has been steady improve
ment in prohibition enforcement,
Wickersham said. ct attribute this to
increased vigilance, to increased atten-
ton on the part of the administration
and to the general perfection OF meth
DDS of enforcement"
Says Law Is Well Enforced.
During a break in the Senate COM
mittee session the chairman told news
paper men that report from one of
the investigators of his corps showed
that the prohibition law was being bet
ter enforced than any other law.
Asked directly If the dry law was
being enforced, Mr. WickerSham replied
that 1t was not 100 per cent" and
then mentioned the report of his special
investigator, who was not named.
Another year will be required by the
commission to conclude its work, the
chairman said.
He added he did not know whether
the commission ultimately would de-
eide to GO into the merits of the
eighteenth amendment and the Vol
stead act.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-17
ALDRIDGE SENTENCED
TO DIE IN CHAIR JUNE 10

Alfred Scott Aldridge, colored, was
sentenced today by Justice Peyton
Gordon to be electrocuted June 10, for
the death of Policeman Harry j. Nc
Donald, July 6, last. It is the first
death sentence ever imposed by the
justice.
Justice Gordon overruled a motion
of the defendant for a new trial Satur-
day but deferred the imposition of
sentence until today. Attorney James
Reilly for the prisoner noted an appeal
to the Court of Appeals.
Policeman Mcdonald had placed the
prisoner and his brother Albert under
arrest at Seventeenth and Q streets on
a HOUSEKEEPING charge and was taking
them to a call box when the men
opened fire on him. Mcdonald returned
the fire, killing the brother but receiv-
ing a fatal wound himself.
Assistant United States Attorneys
Walter M. Shea and James r. Kirkland
conducted the prosecution.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-17
WIFE IDENTIFIES
DOHENY-EALL NOTE
Tells How Oil Man Tore Of
Signature to;Protect For
mer Secretary.

Only a short time after his wife
had testified in his defense, Edward
l.. Doheny, millionaire oil operator,
charged with bribery, took the stand
to tell of his loan Of 500 900 to Al
bert B. Fall and the subsequent
leasing by his company Of the Elk
Hills naval oil reserve.
BY the Associated Press.
Mrs. Carrie Estelle Doheny, wife Of
Edward L. Doheny, today took the StanC
in her husbands trial on charges Of
bribery to tell of the loan of 100000
Doheny made to Albert B. Fall, former
Secretary of the Interior, in November
1921.
mrs. Doheny," asked Frank j
Hogan Doheny's chief counsel, did you
ever see a promisSory note bearing AL
bert F. Falls signature2"
"Yes." replied Mrs. Doheny.
She told how the signature was TORI
from the Fall note by her husband
just before they departed from New
York for Los Angeles. She said Do
heny told her 1t was a demand note
and If anything happened to them II
would leave Fall in a bad position il
their executor insisted on payment. He
explained, she said, by tearing of the
signature Fall would be safe until able
to pay the money.
She told of taking the note to Los
Angeles and putting 1t in safe deposit
box and added 1t was misplaced anC
not found until after Doheny had teSti-
fed before the Senate oil committee
She produced the signature which wa:
shown the jury. She also identified the
remainder of the note.
Defense counsel for Doheny today
introduced four ministers who testified
to Doheny's high" character, and Other
witnesses through whom it attempted
to prove that responsibility for the
leasing Of the Elk Hills naval oil reserve
to Doheny company lay with the Navy
Department and not with Albert B
Fall, former Secretary of the Interior
Doheny is charged with giving {
bride of 100000 to Fall to influence
him to award Elk Hills to the OF
mans company. Joseph D. Carey, sec.
rotary to the late Edwin DENLY, for.
(Continlied on Page Q. Column A.
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PARLEY MAY ASK
ROME FOR FIGURES
observation-disclosures Stimson
Conversations Indicate
Prolonged Conference.
BY PAUL SCOTT MowRER.

By Wireless to The Star and Chicago Daily
News. Copyright, 1880.
LONDON, England, March 1.-THE
London Naval Conference is still writh-
ing in the throes of great crisis. It
has been learned that the only really
constructive result of yesterdays and
today'S conversations between French
Premier Andre Tardieu. Prime Minister
Ramsay Macdonald and Secretary of
State Henry l.. Stimson was the fact
that all concerned felt emphatically
that it would be most useful to continue
the negotiations, perhaps even several
weeks more.
But Great Britain has reiterated its
inability to accept the French figures
without increasing its own. France has
reiterated its inability to reduce its fig
ures without new security pact whose
tendency would be to allay the long
standing Franco Italian tension. Great
Britain has reiterated its reluctance to
enter any such pact and has again Sug-
geSted a possible ratio of 3 to 2 between
France and Italy instead of parity with
France, which Italy claims.
In order to make sure that no means
OF facilitating f1ve-power agreement
shall be overlooked, France and Great
Britain seem to have agreed to make a
joint request to Premier MuSsolini in
Rome that he do his utmost to help the
conference by putting down real figures
instead Of repeating on all occasions
Parity with France" The United
States has reiterated its reluctance to
abandon the five-power- pact idea and
is once more urging Great Britain to
take up the Mediterranean pact nego-
tiations with the French, which, in
deed, Great Britain promised France in
the preliminary exchange of notes.
Japan Still Obstacle.
1t is again confirmed that Great
Britain and the United States intend to
try to make a three-power pact with
Japan IN case a flve-power pact is
finally impossible, and for this purpose
the United States would even be willing
to accept the tonnage increases on
which the admiralty would in that case
insist vis-a-vis France-namely, $4,000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-17
Auto SmaSheS Into Concrete
CuIvert and PIunges Into
2O-FoOt RaVine.
W0MAN'S BODY is FOUND
AFTER HALF-HOUR HUNT
Party En- Route to Baltimore When
Machine Meets Disaster
Near Savage.

Maryland authorities began an in
vestigation today of the automobile acct
dent on Baltimore boulevard last night
which killed three Washingtonians and
injured three others when an automo-
bile crashed into a concrete culvert near
Savage and hurled them into a 90
foot ravine.
The dead:
Samuel Matthews, % years old, of
No. 20 Todd place northeast, president
of the Original Sam, Inc, department
store in the 800 block of M street.
George PoSey, IS years old, formerly
Of Rockville, who roomed at 3118 M
street, employed in the trucking busi-
ness here. He is the son of Charles
Posey of Potomac, Md.
Mrs. Catherine Burnell, "a years old,
Of 3114 M street.
OF the three survivors, the most
seriously injured was Miss Gertrude
Cephillie, % years old, of Harrison, N.
j. She received internal injuries. Her
condition today had failed to improve.
Party on Pleasure Trip.
The other two injured were Howard
o. Burnen, "a years old, bricklayer
and husband of the dead woman, living
at 3114 M street, and Miss Ethel Ran
dolph, 10 years old, Of the 5000 block
-M o street.
With Burnell driving, the party of
young people was en- route to Balti-
more on pleasure trip.
According to an eye witness account
Of the wreck, given by Washington
newspaper man who was returning from
Baltimore last night and was on the
scene of the accident, an attempt by
the driver of the death car to Swerve
his machine from the left side of the
road and miss oncoming traffic caused
the wreck.
The witness said: "The car was COM
Continued on Page 2, Column 10
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-17
$45,284,3l7 SUM INCLUDED
In DISTRICT 1881 BUDGET:
OFFICIALS ARE ATTACKED
FISCAL RELATIONS SIDELICHTS
Figures Interpreted Two WaysHow the City Benefits From
Army Officers Russell Shoes Revolvers
and Hair Clippers

preted one way by the proponents of the
lump-sum scheme of appropriations; to
the extent, in fact, that the casual
reader is left with the impression that
these statistics, coming from oficial-
and therefore unbiased-sources. repre-
sent contentious that are unanswerable
Their arrangement, however, raises
the question whether the District audi
tor in preparing the tables has done so
merely to present the concise history
of the fiscal situation" that Repre-
sentative Simmons calls it, or whether
he has arranged them according to the
views and upon the specific request of
CONTINUED on Page 8, Column A.
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PONT|F|CAL MASS
FOR FOCH HAL TED
irregularities" in Affair Civ
en- as Cause of Bishop M. J.
CurIey'S Veto Order.

Formal notice was sent today to 1000
| invites, including President Hoover
high Government officials and members
Of the diplomatic corps of the Gin
| definite postponement" of the pontifical
requiem mass which was to have been
celebrated in st. Matthews Catholic
Church here Thursday morning on the
first anniversary of the death Of Ferdi-
nand Foch, generalissino of the allied
armies during the World War.
The postponement, which amounts to
cancellation, was ordered by Arch
bishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore
after, according to his secretary, GER
tain irregularities" in connection with
the affair had been called to his at
tention.
No Further Explanation.
Mgr. Edward l.. Buckley, pastor OF
st. Matthews, said this morning that
Archbishop Curley, who was to have
officiated at the mass, had made no
EXPLANATION of the poStponement to
him, but had merely sent notice that
the purpose planned.
The proposed mass had been spon-
sored by Kenneth D. Murphy, who was
under fire during a congressional IN.
vestigation in 1925 of the National
Disabled Soldiers League, Inc.
Murphy had arranged for meeting
at the Mayflower Hotel following the
celebration of the mass, but tnlS meet
ing was Cancelled several DAYS ago.
Murphy was registered as guest at
the hotel, but, according to officials, LETT
without making known a forwarding
address after the meeting had been can
celed.
Representative j. Hamilton Fish, Ir.,
of New York, who preSloeo Over I
Investigation into the leagues actlVitieS'
said he was pleased to learn that tne
archbishop had ordered poStponment OF
! the mass"
According to the printed list OF COM
| mittees on the invitations sent ouC,
Murphy was chairman of the executlVs
committee of the Marshal Ferdlnano
Foch memorial committee. MRS. Jasper
Bayne was listed as associate CHAIRMAN
and DR.. Abram Post Blakey as VICE
| chairman.
Senator David Walsh Chairman.
Senator David I. Walsh was named as
honorary chairman of the arrangements
committee, and Judge Mary I. NOTION
as honorary vice chairman.
The general honorary committee IN
| cluded the names of Assistant Secretary
OF the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke, New
ton D. Baker, Walter F. Brown. F
| Trubee Dawson, Secretaries Patrick j.
Hurley, Arthur M. Hyde, Robert p. La
mont, William D. Mitchell, and others.
Il was astounded when I learned
several days ago that Kenneth D.
Murphy had obtained the names of SO
many notables for his committee" Mr.
Fish said.
fish Warned Against Murphy.
| II was chairman of the House COM
mittee which sometime ago investigated
the activities of the National Disabled
Soldiers League, of which Murphy was
adJutant, and when / recalled that his
claim that he was a disabled war
veteran had been questioned, warned
senator Walsh and others on the COM
mittee to withdraw"
The only record at the War Depart
ment OF Murphy, according to state
mentS made before the investigating
y committee, is that he joined the Ma
tlonal Guard after the World War and
was hurt in falling fam horse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-17
SUPREME COURTS sUSURPATION'
OF POWER IS SCORED BY CAPPER
Minority Opinions Seem Farer to Public Than Majorys,
Kansan Says Over Radio.

The minority opinions of Justices
Holmes. Brandeis and Stone in the Su-
preme Court "have seemed fairer and
more constructively in the public inter-
est" said Senator Arthur Capper in a
radio address today. than the majority
opinions, and there should be some more
members of the court with their view
point"
Senator Capper spoke over the Co
lumbia Broadcasting System from
Washington through WdAL.
Through fixing utility rates by way
OF the "confiscation" provision Of the
fourteenth amendment, Senator Capper
said, "the court has assumed and Is
taking more and more legislative
powers"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-17
RICH PRISON DIET
BRINGS CRITICISM
Tender Chicken, Choice Cuts
of Meat and Fresh Fish
on "Menu."

A delectable fare of luscious fruits,
fresh roasting chickens (old BOOSTERS
positively banned, choice cuts of meat
and fish and bivalves right from the
ocean-served to woman prisoners at
the House Of Observation-Disclosures forth
expressions of surprise and criticism
from members of the House subcommit-
tee on appropriations for the District
during the budget hearings, it was dis
closed today.
Apparently agreeing with the remark
of Representative Holiday that I'VE can
put them up at less expense at the
Willard" the committee pared $l,750
of the food allowance for the detention
home and eliminated altogether the
$l1 900 rental item, with the under
standing that the institution be re-
moved to some Government-owned
building in the new municipal center.
Chairman Simmons contraSted the
per capita cost of $9.46 last November
at the House of Detention with the per
capita cost Of $3.42 for keeping prisoners
at the receiving home, and asserted
I'VE ought not to support prisoners on
a basis that the man who pays the taxes
cannot afford to support his own FAM
ily." The total cost, for food at the
House of Detention last year was $5,453.
The committees desire is that the cost
be reduced this year by $l,750.
Maj Pratt on Grin.
Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent
Of police, was on the grill with refer
ence to the Police Department appro-
priation when Chairman Simmons d.
rected his guns on the Woman's Bureau
and the House of Detention, over which
the bureau has supervision. Previously
figures which the committee members
indicated show that personnel of
IS to 30 was employed at the House of
Detention to care for II inmates, the
average daily number, had been given,
and there had been some intimation
that woman prisoners be deprived of
their special treatment at the House of
Detention and housed in the District
jail.
After Mr.. Simmons had announced
that he had received a request from
Lieut.. Nina Van Wrinkle, head of the
bureau, to appear before the committee,
but that he could see no reason for
calling her when Maj. Pratt seemed
to have the data desired, Mr.. Simmons
declared:
Here is a remarkable showing to
which want to call your attention.
The per capita cost of the receiving
home was $2.94 a day in october, against
$8.08 at the House of Detention. The
per capita cost in November at the re-
ceiving home was $3.42, as against $9.46
at the House of Detention. The per
capita cost in December was $4.14 at
the receiving home, as against $8.l1 at
the House of Detention. OF course, they
point out that part of their per capita
cost is due to the maintenance of the
Women's Bureau there.
I'VE have here the requisitions for
supplies for the House Of Detention.
Here is one list: Ten pounds of lemons,
40 pounds of bananas, IS pounds of
celery, 5 pounds of cranberries, Is
pounds of head lettuce.
Those are small items, but the type
OF stuff that you and figure pretty
closely when we take them into our own
homes"
Maj. Pratt, to whom the remarks
Continued on Page 6. Column Sd
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-17

Even though the trout season will not
be open, President Hoover has decided
to make his first visit of the year to
the Rapidan fishing camp in the Vir-
ginia mountains this week end.
Since he plans to leave Washington
some time Saturday, it is doubtful If he
will have an opportunity to visit the
little school in Dark Hollow which he
was instrumental in having established.
The trout season viii not open until
Tuesday, April /, under Virginia law,
and Mr.. Hoover has made 1t clear that
he will observe the statute. No indi-
cation was sive0yhat he would prolong
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-17
BY BEN McKELWAY.

Hearings on the District appropria-
ton bill, released today, contain the
usual assortment of interesting tables
and statements bearing on the financial
relations between the United States and
the District of Columbia. The tables,
prepared by the District auditor. are, of
course, accurate and the figures un-
assailable. Major interest in their in
clusion in the record of testimony, from
the viewpoint of the District taxpayer,
lies in the manner of their interpreta-
ton. They naturally have been inter-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-17
FISH SAFE UNTIL APRIL 1, THOUGH
HOOVER GOES TO CAMP THIS WEEK
Trout Season Closed, So President Will Not Indulge in
Favorite Sport on Vacation

line on the opening day.
Mr.. Hoover has indicated he will visit
the camp each week end until mid
summer when he is expected to visit
his home in Palo Alto, Calf, for a
few weeks and later go to his camp in
the redwoods of California.
While in the mood yesterday for the
journey in the open, the President sug-
geSted a walk to Mrs. Hoover, who
readily accepted. They strolled about
the downtown streets and then went
to the amaryllis exhibition and from
there strolled through the Mall and
across the Monument grounds to the
White House. During this walk they
passed through the crowds virtually
unobServed,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-17

more and more people throughout the
country are rebelling against this
usurpation of power by the court, eSpe-
cially as they see it resulting in higher
and higher rates based on capitalization
beyond control of either States or the
National Government"
Referring to the recent fight on the
floor of the Senate against the con-
firmation of Chief Justice Hughes. when
opponents of the appointee mustered
&c votes against him, Senator Cappel
continued:
Personally, I was very much in favor
of Justice Hughes for a place on the
supreme bench. But also, believe II
was a good thing for the court and
for the country that he had some plain.
spoken comment on the tendency o.
the Supreme Court and the courts In
general to encroach upon the legisla.
tive branch OF the Government"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-17
DR.. REICFIELDERFER CONSIDERED
FOR DISTRICT COMMISSIONER
Retired Physician Identified With Ma.
tional Guard Given Serious Though hit
to Succeed Taliaferro.

President Hoover is known to be Sc
riously considering DR.. Luther Reichel-
derfer, retired physician and surgeon,
for number of years identified with
the District National Guard, for ap-
pointment as District Commissioner to
succeed Sidney F. Taliaferro.
DR.. Reichelderfer, who has never been
candidate for this place, was sug-
gested to the President by officials OF
the District of Columbia Medical As
ISOLATION, of which he was at one time
president, and because of his wide ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-17
Erich Heinkel Killed.

WARNEMUENDE, Germany, March
II R).-Erich Heinkel, eldest son of
Ernst Heinkel, widely known airplane
builder, was killed near here last night
when his motor car struck a tree in a
Snowstorm. The elder Heinkel con-
structed the liner Bremen's catapult
plane and in 1927 built a large hydro
plane which attempted an unsuccessful
flight to the United States.
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perience and long residence in this city
the President is understood to think
very highly of him,
1t has developed that in his search
for a successor to Commissioner Talia-
fer1o, the President has eliminated all
Of the names of availables that were
suggested to him except DR.. Reichel-
derfer, Ringgold Hart and DR.. George
G. Havenner. Mr.. Hart was for a num-
Der of years assistant corporation coun-
sci, and is now a practicing lawyer here.
It is understood that the Presidents
choice lies between these three men,
with DR.. Reichelderfer, according to
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JERICHO PARAPET FOUND.

JERUSALEM, March II R.-Sir
Charles Marston's expedition, excavat-
ing Ias,ot Inc sue sue or Ins 6lDncal CITY OF
walk of the Canaanite rampant, show
ing the raised platform on which the
Canaanite archers defended themselves
against the Israelites.
Towers of several periods, superim-
posed on the general line Of fortifica-
tons, have been disclosed on the west
side above the Spring Gate-near the
spring whose poisonous waters were
cured by Elisha.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-17
GIRL, 19, KILLS RIVAL
FOR MANS AFFECTIONS
Quarrel in Boarding House at
Camden, S. c., Results in
Fatal Shooting.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CAMDEN, S. c., March 17.-Lottie
Villipigue, 10, stabbed Bessie Robinson,
16-year-old Rock Hill girl, to death here
last night in what friends said was a
quarrel over the affections of Cleo
Gregory. 25
Miss Villipigue daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. K. S. Villipigue of Camden, is held
In jail here, but formal charges have
not been lodged against her pending an
inquest. Mamie T. Elliott, IS, and her
brother, Robert Elliott, are held as ma
terial witnesses.
The killing took place at boarding
house where the Robinson girl was a
. rocmer.