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jiost office. Washington, D. C. NEW LEVEE BREAK DESTROYS TOWN OF MELVILLE, LA. Waters Pouring Through Huge Crevasse Wipe Out Entire Village.

INHABITANTS BELIEVED SAFE ON EMBANKMENTS Relief Trains Standing By to Remove Refugees From Inundated Community. I thft Associated Press. BATON ROUGE. May ports that the main levee at Melville, on the west bank of the Atchafa-j java River, broke today and that the residents were forced to tlee weie 1 e- ceived here today. The information came from a telephone operator at Melville, who stated that virtually in the town was destroyed.

Melville lies about 130 miles northwest of New Orleans, and is on the opposite site of the river from the Crescent City, and is 45 miles northwest of Baton Rouge. The levee was from 15 to IS feet Tiigh, and John M. Parker, State flood director, was advised that two hours after the break, which came about fi the crevasse had widened to 800 Confidence was expressed here that no lives had been lost, as most of the 1.028 inhabitants of Melville had sought refuge on the levees. Relief Trains Standing By. Two relief trains of the Texas pacific Railroad were reported standing by to remove the flood victims.

The scene that followed the break was described to the Associated Press today by Mrs. Julia Mac Neill, wife of a Melville druggist. She was the first refugee to escape from the town. Every one was aroused by shots fired by the levee guards and rushed from their homes in night clothes, Mrs. Mac Neill said.

immediately scrambled up on the levees, where they waited for the rescue boats. They have absolutely nothing; most of them did not have time to get any Mrs. Mac- Neill continued. Houses Tossed About. waters rushed through the break with a roar and swept away nearby houses from their foundations, lifting them up and tossing away the boards and heavy timbers like feathers.

Intermingled with the roar of the waters could be heard the screams of the women and children. sat on the levees the river hank, crying and shivering. It was Although in a state of nervous tension from her experiences. Mrs. Mac- Neill went to former Gov.

Parker, begging him to send boats at once to rescue the people. shots may not have aroused every she added. am afraid that people whose homes were near the crevasse may have lost their 20 DIE IN LOUISIANA FLOOD. NEW ORLEANS, May 17 Loss of life, which rescue workers at first hoped might be averted during the flood in Louisiana, hovered like a grim spectre over the Big Bend and Ba you des Glaises section today. Relief workers in various parts of the inundated area reported a of approximately 20 already dead.

At Plaucheville, in the path of the Bayou des Glaises flood, about 150 miles northwest of New Orleans, three women and six children were reported drowned when their home was overturned bo flood waters. As the reports of the first deaths arrived, there also came a warning from Leonard G. Coop. Red Cross executive at Opelousas, who said that lie had grave fears for the safety of many residents east of Opelousas. May Use Military Force.

Mr. Coop indicated that he believed it might become necessary to take many of the people from the area by military force. Below Opelousas, between the Atchafalaya River and Arnaudville. the low' country is only 10 miles wide, and it is there, where the current will lie the swiftest, that the danger zone is believed to lie. Towns above Opelousas were reported under water at depths varying from 6to 15 feet.

Opelousas, on high land, was expected to be made headquarters for 5,000 refugees. At Woodside, 10 miles south of the junction of the Atchafalaya and Old Rivers, on the east bfmk of the Atchafalaya, a break which threatened yesterday was reported to have been averted temporarily, at least. George C. Sehoenberger, State engineer, said he thought the levee there would hold. 150 Refugees at Convent.

At. Plaucheville, bearing the brunt of the flood, 150 persons were being cared for at a convent on high land. A hundred of those were living in the homes of priests. Citizens and a trainload of relief workers in boats were combing the territory around Cottonport. Fifty fiat boats were built at the refugee camp at Opelousas yesterday and were launched today to take ma- rooned persons out of the territory east of there.

On the lower Mississippi the situation was unchanged. A gauge at New Orleans read 2d.fi feet, a drop of onetenth in 24 hours. ALEXANDRIA, May 17 I A Texas Pacific Railroad bridge be- tween Morrow and Palmetto was washed out last night, preventing rescue trains from going from Alex- andria to Melville today. Rescuers will have to reach the scene from Baton Rouge. FARMERS GUARD LEVEES.

CRESCENT, May 17 An i of farmers armed with shotguns marched out to battle here last night. A short time later most of the army trooped back home. The could not be found. The call to arms followed a rumor circulated among farmers that the Illinois Central Railroad, in an effort to protect some of its property, planned to cut embankments on Honey Creek because of flood conditions. The report was denied vehemently bv railroad officials, but a group of the farmers maintained watch into early morning hours.

They were satisfied, they said, that the railroad intended no harm to the protecting levees, but they were not sure about the waters of the which last Saturday broke through a levee the Missouri and bae.ifd up against Accuses Backer LLOYD RERTAVD. PRESIDENT VETOES PLEA 10 SUMMON SPECIAL SESSION White House Acts After Encouraging Hoover Report Is Received. Based on an encouraging report received today from Secretary of Commerce Hoover on work being done for the relief of Mississippi flood sufferers, it was announced later at the White House that President Coolidge does not think it necessary to call an extra session of Congress in response to repeated demands from various quarters. Secretary Hoover submitted to the President by wire a comprehensive plan for relief work by the Red Cross in co-ordination with State and county commissions. This work would involve emergency relief and reconstruction of the devastated areas as well as a restocking of farms and refinancing agricultural and business districts.

Against Extra Session, It is reasonably safe to say, Mr. Hoover stated, that the funds at hand will enable the Red Cross to do its work on an efficient basis. President Coolidge was said to feel that the public generally has responded so well to the relief call that there is no occasion for an extra session of Congress, especially in view of the excellent work that has been done thus far in relieving the distress of flood FRENCH PLAN TO SEEK MORE TOURIST TRADE Propaganda Bureau Proposes Establishing New York Office to Aid Travelers. By the Associated Press. PARIS, May of to encourage travel is being planned for New York, and eventually other large cities of countries that send tourists here to spend money, America is placed first on the list be- cause the French say more than 000 persons come here from the United States every year and that each one spends an average of While the of in New York has not yet been authorized by Parliament, the government propaganda bureau believes it will soon be sanctioned.

As planned, the building would house the French consulate, commercial and tourist agencies. steamship and railroad offices, hotel agents, travel bureaus and the tourist information service. The idea is to meet German efforts along lines in America. It is hoped to all formalities for tourists so they will not be annoyed by the many complicated travel requirements. DEFERS TAX CUT PLANS.

It is too early to map out any definite program for the tax reduction expected at the next session of Congress, in the opinion of President Coolidge. He prefers that the method of reduction be worked out after the surplus for the fiscal year ending June 30, is definitely known. The President also believes the reduction must depend to some extent on business conditions existing and in prospect when Congress gets together next December. Girl 8 Years Old Expects to Enter High School at 9 By the Associated Press. I TILDEN, May i Lee James, 8-year-old pupil of a I country school near here, expects to enter high school when she is 9.

I Vergie recently passed the State examination given for seventh and eighth grade pupils with an average grade of 86 per rent. Her teacher expects her to complete the i nine subjects required for the I eighth grade next year and be ready for high school at 9 years of age. Propriety of Former Federal Clerk Having Tomb Put Up to Court Justice Stafford of the District Suprome Court will he called on tomoi row to decide whether the provision of a will leaving the residue of an estate for the erection of a vault or monument over the grave of the testatrix is a valid bequest and whether the American Security Trust the executor, is justified in so expending a balance of more than remaining after the payments of the specific bequests of the will of Miss Mary N. Spencer. Miss Spencer was TO years old when she died in 1919, and was a familiar on the streets of Washington through her custom of riding to and from her employment at the Treasury Department on a bicycle almost to the of her After a number She setting Sfctf.

WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION EIGHT MAY OUST PLANE FROM PARIS RACE BertaucTs Lawyer Says Levine Sought to Let Byrd Hop Off First. FLYER MAY GO TO COURT TO ENFORCE ORAL PACT Weather Holds Three Ships to long- Expected to Be Made Thursday. By the Associated NEW YORK, May open break between Lloyd Bertaud. i gator of the Bellanca monoplane Co- lumbia, and Charles A. Levine, chief I backer of its transatlantic flight ect, threatened today to eliminate the plane from the triple dash to Paris.

lawyer, Clarence W. Nutt, issued a statement charging Levine with deliberately delaying the takeoff of the Columbia in order to allow Comdr. Richard E. Fokker monoplane America and Capt. Charles E.

Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis to get away first. This, he asserted, would provide an excuse for cancellation of the flight. May Wait Until Thursday. Meanwhile continued unfavorable weather caused further postponements of the contemplated flights.

Indications were that none of the contenders would attempt a hop-off before Thursday, and by that time it was thought Byrd will have completed his load tests and be ready for the Paris jump. Dissension among the ranks of the Bellanca entry has been brewing for several days. The original contract between Bertaud and Clarence Chamberlin, the pilot, and the Columbia Aircraft Corporation, owner of the plane, provided that the prize money, estimated at he divided equally between the flyers and the company, and that the airmen agree to remain in the employ of the company one year after the Paris flight should it prove successful. Friends of the flyers voiced objections to the proposed division of the prize money, and the aviators themselves insisted some financial arrangement be made for their wives. Bertaud also objected to the one-year contract clause, as he is on leave from the Air Mail Service.

Chamberlin is regularly employed by the Columbia company. New Agreement Made. As a result of a conference Sunday an agreement was reached under whieh -the flyers were to receive the I full prize money, their wives were to be given financial protection and the one year contract was to be waived. This agreement was placed in writing, but Nutt charged a paragraph had been inserted reserving to Levine the right to withdraw from the flight project or to remove one or both of the flyers, with compensation of four weeks' expenses. As a result of this clause the contract was not signed.

Nutt announced he was prepared to start suit to compel carrying out of the terms of the alleged oral agree! ment. Another point of dispute was over the radio equipment the plane should I carry. After the disastrous Nungesj ser flight a powerful radio set was installed on the Columbia. Bellanca Racks Levine. Levine.

however, declared the weight of the radio generation impaired the efficiency of the plane, and over the protests of Bertaud it was removed. A smaller emergency set was installed. G. M. Bellanca, designer of the plane, supported Levine in the controversy.

Bertaud was displeased by the contemplated change of course from the steamship lane to the great circle route to be followed by Lindbergh and Byrd. Chamberlin, however, agreed with Bellanca on the advisability of such a change. Stiff, raw winds kept the three planes in their Long Island hangars yesterday. pilot has been announced as Bert Acosta. Acosta recently made the- world's endurance flight record of more than 51 hours in the Bellanca plane with Chamberlin.

PLANE GIVEN TESTS. Rig Fokker Declared Satisfactory in Weight Experiments. ROOSEVELT FIELD, Long Island, May 17 big three-motored Fokker monoplane, America was given a weight-lifting test today that was deemed by the flyers as The America flew off with Bert Acosta and Lieuts. Noville and Balchen, carrying 11,350 pounds of water and sand. The monoplane rose from the ground after a run of a quarter of a mile and made a short flight.

Lieut. Noville said the America Later the America will have a test with loads of 13,00 and 14,500 pounds. The monoplane, which will be flown by Comdr. Richard E. Byrd, will attempt the crosing of the Atlantic with a load of 14,207 pounds.

The second flight of the America was made with a load of 13,280 pounds. The huge craft took to the air easily after a run of approximately 1.200 feet. of small bequests her will directs that the residue be used in the erection of the monument, and the executor, in view of the amount involved, has asked the court to construe the will in a suit filed about three years ago, hut which is just ready for hearing by the court. Heirs of the deceased residing in England and Ireland have filed opposition to the use of so much money in a monument and seek to have the i court hold that distribution of some it should he made among them. Miss it is stated, made only $1,900 a year as a Government clerk, but through wise investments left a considerable estate.

Attorneys Peelle Ogilby ace appearing for the trust company, xvhile the heirs are represented by Attorneys Newmyer. King ami Jacobson, WASHINGTON, D. TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1927-FIFTY PAGES. PLOT TO SEIZE PHILIPPINES FOLLOWED BY REIGN OF FEAR Business Tie-Up in Two Provinces Results From Uprising of Native Adherents of Self-Proclaimed "Emperor. By (lie Associated Press.

MANILA, May report received here today by the Philippine constabulary said a reign of fear and a tie-up of business had resulted in the two provinces affected by the recent uprising of followers of Flor Intrencherado, insane native and self-proclaimed of the The report further declared that followers had plotted to seize the entire Philippine Archipelago eventually. Many haciendas in Iloilo and Occidental Negros Provinces were said to have been without laborers and a serious stoppage of business followed. Rumors that certain of the ring leaders who arrest might attempt to prevent the removal of Intrencherado to Manila for confinement in an insane asylum were said by the constabulary report to have caused terror, with the result that many natives remained in doors. Planned to Seize Islands. Confessions from many of those under arrest have revealed that it first was designed to seize the provincial government of Iloilo.

There were somewhat less definite arrangements made for taking over the whole of Panay and Negros Islands, two of the STIMSON RETURNS FROM NICARAGUA Representative Leaves Corinto Aboard Cruiser Trenton. Henry L. Stimson, personal representative of President Coolidge in Nicaragua, has sailed away from Corinto on board the cruiser Trenton for Hampton Roads, the Navy Department was advised today. Occupation of Rivas, south of Managua, by a detachment of Marines for the purpose of disarming all government troops in that vicinity today was reported by Admiral Latimer, American naval commander in Nicaraguan waters. Liberals Leave Capital.

He added that all Liberal troops evacuated the vicinity of the Nicaraguan capital yesterday and those living on the Atlantic coast would be sent to their homes today. Pvt. William F. Simon, one of the Marines'slightly wounded yesterday when a band of Liberals attacked an American detachment in Nicaragua, was identified by the Navy Department today as coming from Glastonbury, where his father lives. REPORTED SLAIN.

Envoy to Mexico Says 17 Marines and 23 Liberals Were Killed. MEXICO CITY. May 17 Zepeda, representative here of the Liberal Nicaraguan government, said last night he had received special dispatches from Guatemala reporting that 17 United States marines and 25 Liberals were killed in a clash when the marines attempted to disarm a Liberal group at La Paz, between Leon and Managua. The Liberals, Zepeda adds, withdrew into the mountains and were not pursued by the marines. SACASA ASSAILS STIMSON, Says American Tried to Ram Diaz Presidency Down People's Throats.

PUERTO CABEZAS, May 17 In a statement yesterday Dr. Juan Saeasa, head of the Liberal government, asserted that Henry L. Stimson, personal representative of Pi-esident Coolidge in Nicaragua.instead of investigating tlie real appears to have been sent to Nicaragua for the express purpose of ramming down the throats of the Nicaraguan people the presidency of Adolfo Diaz. He x-eitex-ated his stand that the Liberals would not participate in the Diaz government, and expressed fear that the disarming of Liberal troops by the United States Marines would result in bloodshed. Dr.

Sacasa assorte that such bloodshed would (Continued on Page 7, Column 4 PRESIDENT IS ABLE TO RETURN TO DESK I I Rest Overcomes Address Medical Association as Scheduled. Greatly refreshed by a good rest, President Coolidge returned to his desk at the White House today in time for the Cabinet meeting at 10 When the President developed a slight bronchial cold early yesterday, James F. Coupal, the White House physician, advised him to remain in bed during the afternoon so as to get a complete rest. He will make his address tonight before the American Medical Association unless some unforeseen development occurs. It was said the pulse was normal and that he had no temperature last night.

of Possible Meteor, Roars to Earth By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, May 17. A sputtering of roared out of the clouds and exploded near the General Hospital in South Kansas City shortly before midnight last night. The blast occurred so close to the ground that a patch of grass was burned. No trace of a meteor was found except several small holes in a yard, the largest about 2 inches in diameter.

The detonation was heard for several blocks and caused numerous telephone calls to police and tire departments. i Radio Projicenv? more sizeable areas of the Philippines, Many of the prisoners admitted plotting to kill municipal officials and take possession of their towns for Intrencherado. Policemen were to have been disarmed and prominent citizens captui'ed and their wealth distributed among the Intreneherado followers. In the event that these plans bad been successful, it was planned to proclaim Intreneherado Emperor of the Philippines and to extend his realm later to embrace the whole of the Malay Archipelago. Organization to carry this out had been formed in a dozen towns.

Leader Still at Large. Policarpio Montarde, one of Intreneherado's leading lieutenants and the actual leader of the iecent uprising, still is at. large and a detachment of constabulars has been sent to find him. Although the Supreme Court commitment order for taking Intreneherado to the insane asylum had not arrived at Iloilo, where the resides, a dispatch to the Manila Tribune says the Court of First Instance in Iloilo has ordered him rendered to the authorities for confinement here. ARCHITECTS TO AID IN TRIANGLE PLAN I Nationally Prominent Experts Coming Monday to Advise Building Commission.

A group of nationally known architects will come to Washington Monday to give the Public Buildings Commission and the Treasury Department the benefit of their knwledge in working out the best possible layout for the new Government building program in the triangle south of Pennsylvania avenue. This was announced today by Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Public Buildings Commision, following a meeting in the Senate Office Building, at which the commission discussed the various proposals that have been made recently to modify the earlier decision as to the location of the various departmental structures that are to go in the triangle. Although the commission postponed action on these suggestions until next week, Chairman Smoot said there as no doubt in the mind of members of the commission as to the wisdom of selecting a new site within the triangle for the Department of Justice Building, in order that the site previously selected, on Pennsylvania avenue between Fourteenth and Fifteenth street and extending back beyond street, may be left open for the ereatiojx of a wide plaza that would add dignity to the western end of the Pennsylvania avenue vista and at the same time simplify what is now a congested traffic point. Avenue Would Be Widened. This suggestion contemplates widening Pennsylvania avenue on the south side between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets to create the proposed plaza, instead of placing one of the new buildings on the block between I Pennsylvania avenue and street, Senator Smoot said there would be I no difficulty in selecting a new site within the triangle for the Department of Justice, if this setback on the South side of the avenue between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets is finally decided upon.

This would leave the stretch of Governmentowned land between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets and South to street free for development of adequate building for the Department of Commerce which is to he one of the largest in the entire program. Discuss Linked Buildings. The other proposals, which was talked over this morning, but deferred until next week, was that put forward by the Fine Arts Commission to link the new structures together along the South side of the avenue by archways between the up per stories with a central court on the interior of the triangle, somewhat similar to the Louvre treatment in France. Senator Smoot said the group of architects who are to consult with those in charge of the building program next Monday, would go over these various suggestions and he indicated that they might recommend some different scheme of treatment, either entirely new or embodying the best features of plans already under consideration. Among the architects who will join in this exchange of ideas on the best development of the tiuangle will be John Russell Pope of New York, who designed the Scottish Rite Temple here.

Milton B. Medary, a member of the National Park and Planning mission, also will take part in the consultation. New D. C. Buildings Planned.

The proposed development of a municipal group of buildings for District of Columbia activities in the a ren. between Pennsylvania avenue Judiciary Square, Third and Sixth streets was not taken up today. The city of Washington has many cipal agencies that will have to vacate buildings in the triangle to make way for the Federal buildings and the Commissioners are working on a i scheme for a centralized group of District structures to improve the north side of the Avenue on both sides of John Marshall place. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Dewey represented the Treasury Department at the meeting of the Public Buildings Commission, and the Fine Arts Commission was represented by its chairman, Charles Moore. WILL HIT COUNTERFEITING GENEVA, Switzerland, May 17 OP).

United States is to participate in the League of Nations campaign to check counterfeiting. W. H. Moran, chief of the Secret Service division of the Treasury Department, is to come here as official American delegate to the commission which was created at the suggestion of Foreign Minister Briand of France following the exposure of the great franc counterfeiting case in Hungary. STUDY PARKING BAN AS ALTERNATIVE TO WIDENING STREETS Commissioners to Consider Step as Result of Protests Against Felling Trees.

RESTRICTION SUGGESTED FOR RUSH HOURS ONLY North and South Thoroughfares in Business Area Would Be Affected by Move. Prohibtion of nil parking on north and south streets through the business area during the rush hours appeared to the District. Commissioners today as a potential alternative to the widening of certain thoroughfares and the accompanying destruction of beautiful shade trees. Since the temporary suspension of the street-widening program yesterday, which was ordered as a result of a storm of public protests against the felling of the trees, the Commissioners aave given serious consideration to the question of whether to continue with the sireet-wklening projects or abandon them in favor of some other plan which would provide the additional traffic facilities through the congested district. Would Widen Traffic Lanes.

The primary object of the majority of ail of the street widening projects 1 already completed and those planned for this year, it was pointed out, is to increase traffic accommodations on the north and south streets which bear the burden of the traffic during rush hours. By prohibiting parking on these arteries, it was said, it would he possible to provide space almost equivalent to that which would he cleared by the widening of the street. The Commissioners, however, are in a dilemma as to how to proceed. The street widenings were directed by Congress in the appropriation act, they argued, and whether such orders are mandatory is a question which is puzzling to them. The prosecution or abolition of the 1927 widening program, it was indicated, hinges on the solution of this important question.

Study Contract Cancellation. Moreover, the Commissioners are considering the probable effect of a cessation of the street widening projects with relation to the contracts which it has with the firms which have been authorized to do the work. A breach of these contracts, it was explained, might involve the District in 1 litigation and result possibly in the loss of the money appropriated for i the work. The street widening program, it was said, will be held in abeyance for some time, possibly until Congress convenes, and then the matter would be placed before it for reconsideration. Engineer Commissioner Bell, who has direct supervision over the street widening activities, is of the opinion that hasty prosecution of the street widening program is not necessary and that a delay will cause no great inconvenience.

PLANEREPORTED SEEN BY RUM SHIP Men on Schooner Say Large Craft Flew Off Cape Sable May 9. By the Associated Press. LYNX. May Lynn Item today prints a story of a large plane having been seen off Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, early in the morning of Monday, May 9, by men on a rumrunning schooner who landed here last night. Neither the names of the men nor of the schooner are used, in conformance with the request of the source, but the story says the men are positive in their statements.

The schooner, according to the story, had been lying about 40 miles south of Cape Sable for nearly three weeks while making arrangements for its cargo. Plane Going Southwest. At 7 o'clock in the morning May 9 I the lookout heard the noise of a motor. Ho called several others of the vessel and they were soon able to distinguish a large plane flying at an altitude of about 3,000 feet. It was headed southwest from Cape Sable, and, checking it by their own homeward course, it was pointed straight for Boston Light.

Then a heavy fog bank shut down and sight of the plane was lost. The men on the schooner did nit know that a transatlantic flight had been attempted, the story said, and on landing here last night inquired if (Continued on Page 2. Column 8.) Many 'Marvelous" Beauty Preparations Exposed to Public in Medical Exbibit I.et the user of cosmetics beware. Some of the patent preparations on the market not only are barefaced frauds, but are dangerous, according to an educational exhibit arranged by the American Medical Society in the dermatology section at the Washingington Auditorium. There is one nostrum advertised to beautify the complexion, whiten the skin and remove blackheads, tan and freckles.

Analysis shows that it is only epsom salts in another form. One pound of epsom salts costs 15 cents in any drug store. One pound of toilet preparation costs $2.72. There is another preparation advertised as a sure cure for dandruff and selling at aproximately S4B a gallon. It consists of kerosene, quinine, alcohol, water- and a perfume, It can be made for $0 cents a gallon, and, according to flie exhibit, has no effect on dandruff Mphatsoever.

A farief mixture is shown, sdvertised The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. Circulation, 103,167 C4 5 Associated Press. Maj. Harold Geiger Killed as Plane Falls and Burns i MAJ. HAROLD GEIGER.

By the Associated i MIDDLETOWN. May Maj. Harold Geiger was killed to- day when his plane was wrecked and burned as he was taking off for his return trip to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. at the United States air intermediate depot here. REV.

J. N. PIERCE SUED FOR mi First Congregational Pastor Charged With Libel by Shipping Board Engineer. Rev. Jason Noble Pierce, pastor of the First Congregational Church, where President and Mrs.

Coolidge attend, has been named as defendant in a suit to recover $50,000 damages, filed late yesterday afternoon in the District Supreme Court by Howard T. Cole, an engineer of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, for alleged libel. Cole charges that the pastor to officials of the Shipping Board, April 2 and May 10, communications reflecting on character in an alleged effort to have him dismissed from his position. The engineer denies the charges and claims that he always has been a upright and moral and that the sole purpose of the defendant is to hring the plaintiff scandal and disgrace, to humiliate, mortify and embarrass him, to drive him from the city of Washington and to cause him to lose his Paper Sent to Members. The memorandum attached to the declaration of the plaintiff is dated April 2 and signed by Rev.

Dr. Pierce. It is addressed to Brig. Gen. A.

C. Dalton, president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and the charge is made that copies of this paper ere delivered.to Rear Admiral W. S. Benson and to W. S.

Hill, members of the board. The second communication is dated May 10 and makes certain corrections of statements in the preceding memorandum. Cole is represented by Attorneys Rufus Pearson and Edwin M. Martin. Dr.

Pierce has retained Attorney Frank J. Hogan to defend the suit. Mr. Hogan, it is understood, has advised his client that his actions are justified by his position as pastor of the young woman whose plight caused the writing of the communication. Charges Are Investigated.

At the Emergency Fleet Corporation today immediate superiors of Mr. Cole stated that, although they had knowledge of the charges against him, they had no evidence showing him guilty (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) indianapolisFayor NAMED IN CHARGES City Controller Also Accused of Conspiracy to Falsify Campaign Statements. By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, May 17. Five affidavits against Mayor John L.

Duvall and two against William C. Buser, city controller, brother-in-law, charging conspiracy to commit a felony, were filed in Marion Criminal Court today by William H. Remy, prosecuting attorney. The principal charges were contained in a joint affidavit. It alleged that Duvall and Buser had falsified sworn statements as to contributions to the Duvall campaign In 1924.

Bond of each defendant was fixed at $5,000 on this joint charge. The four others against Duvall and the one other against Buser alleged similar offenses, specifying overt acts alleged to have been committed by them. as made from an oriental recipe, which consists of ounce of calomel to a pint of water. It is described in the exhibit as worthless and likely to pigment the skin permanently. A freckle remover is described as dangerous because it contains the poison ammoniated mercury.

A hair dye is shown to contain con- slderable amounts of a silver salt, which turns dark in the presence of organic matter when exposed to light. It may permanently injure the' hair, it is declared. Another contains silver salt, lead acetate and sulphur, and is branded as dangerous. An alleged product of milkweed is shown to con- tain ammoniated mercury. Various hair removers are shown to contain sulphide mixtures, which may remove hair from the skin, but are said to be likely to take the skin with it.

Even those beauty preparations which are called innocuous should i be looked upon with suspicion, unless indorsed by a physicvian, according to the exhibit, because they are like- ly to arreately TWO CENTS. LAW TO REGULATE MEDICAL PRACTICE IN DISTRICT URGED Association Asked to Back Act Requiring Doctors to Pass Examinations. LOCAL DISASTER RELIEF AGENCIES ADVOCATED Reinvestigation of Value of Heroin as Drug Medicine Debated. The influence of the American Medical Association is expected to thrown behind efforts to secure a general practice mpdical act for the trict of Columbia. A resolution to this effect was introduced today in the house of of the association by Dr.

Phillip S. Roy of Washington and was referred to the board of trustees for action after examination. The uniform medical practice act, modeled after similar laws in New York and force all practitioners of healings arts in the District of Columbia to pass an examination in the fundamentals of medical science. The bill was framed and is supported bv the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. This legislation, which had been introduced by Senator Copeland of New York, was left over by the last Congress.

Heroin Inquiry Asked. A resolution requesting a reinvestigation of the value of heroin as a drug, and restrictive legislation plaeefl upon the distribution of heroin, will be referred to the council on pharmacy and dentistry, to be referred hack to the House of Delegates after study. The resolution, which was approved by the House of Delegates, included the statement: American Medical Association condemns as unwise and futile any attempt to evaluate a therapeutic agent by legislative flat, referendum or popular vote. Such evaluation can he made only by investigation and decision of experts having knowledge of the particular A resolution urging local medical associations to establish disaster relief agencies, the need of which has been showm strikingly by the present Mississippi flood, was adopted. Industrial Medicine Debated.

Discussion of the spread of industrial medicine aroused considerable debate. Dr. Seale Harris of Birmingham, asked that each local society make a study of the effects of industrial medicine in their home States. Dr. C.

S. Nelson of Illinois stated that the attitude of the association was to consider industrial medical practice as unfair where there was underbidding, not of a reasonable degree of free choice on the part of the patient and w'here fees are too low to give good service, but he insisted that local associations should attend to the situation in their own States. Whisky Discussion Postponed. Discussion of a resolution to hold a Nation-wide referendum on the medical value of whisky prescription was postponed until tomorrow morning. A resolution favoring from income tax returns of surgical, hospital, medical and funeral expenses was referred to the board of trustees.

Dr. Albert Dulsen of Fort Wayne, made a hard fight for action by the House of Delegates against allowing individual physicians to publish articles under their own names in the daily press, holding that this might constitute advertising, but it was held that the judicial counsel of the association iias sufficient machinery to handle the situation. An appropriation of $5,000 for five years was approved to continue a study of the training and economic situation of graduate nurses. Cosmetics Control Urged, A resolution introduced by Dr. Orin S.

Wightman of New York at the request of the New York State Medical Society, urging a Federal law for the control of cosmetics, was approved by the house of delegates and referred to the board of trustees for action after considerable debate and laughter, which aroused the ire of the New delegates. time has come for definite action on this important Dr. Wightman said. are being injured without any means of hate to see this matter laughed out," said Dr. D.

E. Sullivan of Concord, N. H. is serious. We had the same thing up before our own medical association, but the and cosmetic manufacturers managed to have the meeting packed so that it was ridiculed.

Even death may result from some of the poisonous proprietary cosmetics that are being New York Society hring this matter here to be laughed said Dr. Daniel S. Dougherty of New York. was given due consideration. The New York City Department of Health has analyzed many of these cosmetic preparations and has found in- them dangerous ingredients, like lead and coal tar.

We want this matter buried by the board of Efforts to have the matter referred to a committee on skin diseases failed. Fight Over State Rights. A fight on State rights legislation broke out over a proposed amendment to the constitution which would give the house of delegates, upon recommendation of the judicial council, the power to expel a member of the American Medical Association. At present membership in the national association is secured by membership in a county or State society, and only the local societies have the power of expulsion. It was brought out that State and county societies often do not take sufficient interest in local quacks and will permit a man to retain his membership has engaged in questionable practices.

Thus he is able to advertise that he is a member of the American Medical Association and get whatever prestige comes from that society. American Medical Association must have control over its own said Dr. M. L. Harris of Chicago, chairman of the judicial council.

have a case right now where the name of the association is being dragged in the dirt by a doctor who is advertising a fake cancer and there is nothing we can do about (Gontinnod on Page 4. Column 1.).