Evening Star Newspaper, March 3, 1924, Page 2

BUREA CHARGES Declares Millions of Dollars’ Worth of Bonds Have Been Duplicated. Charles B. Brewer, a special at- torney with the Department of Jus- tice, &t @ hearing today before the House rules committee reiterated his charges that millions of dollars' worth of bonds had been duplicated at the bureau of engraving and printing. “wring_examination by the commit- tee, which had before it a resolution to authorize an investigation of the charges, Rrewer added little to his pre- vious statements, The committee took no actlon In the hearing, which was on a reso- lution by Representative King of Illi- nols, to euthorize the banking and currency committea of the House to make a sweeping investigation of the Treasury Department and Depart- ment of Justice concerning the duplication of honds. Representative King declared that the late President Harding had been “hamstrung, tied hand and foot, and surrounded as I must have been by lites, sples, sycophants of ring. Mr, King_ said that the President had taken his actlon dismissing twenty-nine emploves in March, 1 basing his action upon sufficient evidence. Took Own Course. “Evidently,” sald Mr. King, “the president had endeavored to get at the duplicate bond matter himself, no doubt afrald of the announcement of the existence of such bonds would affect the market value of all liberty bonds. This he naturally wished to avold.” Supporting the charges of Charles . Brewer of duplicated bonds, Mr. King read to the committee a length. statement, substantlating Brewer case, and reading into_the record let- ters from President Harding, which hie sald showed a confidence of the late chief executive in Mr. Brewer Mr. Brewer, who was present, luter Wwas cross-examined by the commit- tee, and explained in detail many of his' charges. A considerable amount of his testi- mony had already been revealed in his sult in the District Supreme Court whereby he sceks to enjoin the gov- crnment from taking from him his evidence, Ofice Broken Open. “While Brewer was endeavoring to make his final report” said Mr. King, “he was subjected to all sorts of interruptions, tending to annoy and delay him, for instance, at this time the Treasury Department demanded | the taking of an inventory of the | bonds in the possession of Brewer and | necessary for the making up of this report—and this when the Treasury held individual receipts for every piece of paper he had, and efforts were made to secure his vidence to the extent that his private office was broken open under the orders of Cunningham, assistant to W. J. Burns, connected with the Depart- ment of Justice. Vietim of Campaign. “Brewer,” Representative King said, “had been the victim of a whispering campalgn designed to make him out to be & ‘nut.’ “After the President’s death the ‘nut’ propaganda became very numer- ous and very loud all along the line. One. could hear thelr voices, particu- tarly whenever they thought they hud | found me breach i r. Bre '8 | proof. They cried ‘he’s a nut, h H nut'—in the Department of Ju: ubout the Treasury, everywhere hc went one could hear’ the Wwhispers or | the cries, ‘He's a nut’ It was whisp- ered to 'Coolldge, it was whispered | about the corridors and purviews of the Capitol, and passed about in the | cloakrooms. The resolution in question, | belng introduced, it was whispered to the Speaker aud to the chairman of | this committee. Everywhere wi heard the chirpings of the acolyte: ‘He's u nut, he's a nut’ until th sounds came to resemble a million of katydids in the forest on a hot, clear | August night. ! Praise for Brewer. ““The truth is that a more modest, in- telligent man does not live, an honest and reliable lawyer who takes the vosition that while he is in Its em- ploy he is acting as attorney for the government and not against it.” The meeting in President HardIng's study on the second floor of the White Hous on the last Sunday in December, 1922, attended by Brewer, ihe President ' and officials of the Treasury and Justice departments, Mr. Jing sald, was not for the purpose of ealling Brewer to task.” This impression nad veen given out, how cver, “erroneously, Mr. King charge and he read u letter from President Harding written to Mr. Brewer with- in four days after that meeting. “This letier,” said Mr. Kin that the President was pleased with Brewer's work and was for giving him more pow as he said at their first meeting, ‘Go out and et the truth, and if there are any blocks in your way iet me know.' ' Distrusted Treasury. Explaining why he considered Presi- dent Harding had gone to Brewer in- stead of placing the investigation in the hands of the Treasury, Mr. King said, “Even a President of the United ates could not prevafl against a| Treasury ring, which, organized in tho time of Frankiin MacVeagh domi- nated completely the personnel and policy of the United States Treasury Department.” Picturesquesly describing Mr. Hard- ing's dismissals, Mr. King declared, “hamstrung, tied hand and foot, and surrounded as he must have been by the satclites, sples, sycophants of the Treasury ring, he finally, in despalr, drew his sword and struck.the blow that cleaved the snaky head of Medusa, but slt seems that Perseu flew with her bleeding head over the ot sands of Africa, while every drop of blood falling therefrom developed into & snake and so multiplied that for centurics adventurers would not go there.” Under examination Mr. Brewer de- clared that the only record concern- ing the individual bonds which had been canceled were on the bonds themselves and that if they should be destroyed there would be no way ever to trace them or to determine whether the government had been defrauded. Ho sald that about twelve billion dollars in securities had been de- stroyed, some of which, he suid, the Treasury knew ~were duyplicate: ‘There {5 on file, he said, another si teen or seventeen billion dollar: werth which have not been destroyed and which should not be destroyed by the Treasury. Loopholes have been left in the destruction precess, especiaily of the liberty loan, Mr. Brewer charged, whereby the possibility of fraud has been increased. Telephone Tapped. | “His telephone lines o Treasury sleuths followed Bim from place 10 Pluce uud c wov o in San Francisco, where it was neces- | sary to go, and even his room at his hote]l was ransacked. Brewer was determined that he would protect his evidence and produce it where it would be available for the use of Con- zress or the grand jury, and when one Rush Holland, an employe of the Department of Justice, demanded that ‘he turn over his evidence to Under- secratary Gilbert and dellver to him all the duplicate bonds and evidence in his possession and appeared with 2 weitten demand from Andrew Mel- lon that the same be turned over to Winston, undersecretary of the Trease { OIL LAW SUSTAINED. Supreme Court Upholds South Dakota Inspection. South Dakota’s oil inepection law was today sustained by hte Supreme Court. The decision of the lower court was afirmed. The constitutionality of the law had been attacked by the Peterson Oil Company of Dell Rap- ids, S. D, on the contention that it interfered with interstate commerce. EINSTEIN THEORY “PROCFS” ASSAILED Noted U. S. Mathematician Startles Scientific World With Challenge. By the Associated Prevs, SAN FRANCISCO. Mareh 3.—Capt. T. J. J. See's attats on caleulations belleved by many to prove the “Ein- stein theory” has startled astronom- feal and other sclentific circles. Capt. See, Who Is the government astron- omer at Mare Island and a world- noted mathematician, in an address yesterday before the California Acad- emy of Sclence challenged the theory of Elnstein on the progression of the perihelion of Mercury. This appurent change of the orbit of the planet nearest the sun has puzzled astronomers because the facts were In conflict with the New tonlan law of gravitation. steln’'s theory accounted for this change, but Capt. See says the fig- ures were wrong and advances & theory which Einstein denfes) to explain Mercury's orbit. Analyzes Dincoverien. Capt. See analyzed the results of the recent discoverles as follows: “Itturnsout * * ¢ that the theoretical Progression of forty-three seconds Per cent calculated by Einstein and Eddfigton is entirely erroneous. “The plus 43 seconds per century heretofore used is only the first term of a series, the second term being minus 29 seconds per century, leaving an outstanding difference of only plus 13 seconds per century. This outstanding progression of Mercury's perihilion of plus 13 seconds per cen- tury is consistent with Weber's electro-dynamic law of planetary mo- tion and with See’s new _Kinetic theory of the ether—both of which yield ‘a progression of plus 14.5 sec- onds per century—but not with the Einstein theory, which demands plus 43 seconds per century.” Denfes Theory Confirmed. Capt. See also denfed that solar observations had confirmed Einstein's theory of the curvature of space or that rays of the stars in passing the sun were bent, due to the attraction of the sun and to the fact that light, belng a substance, had weight. Capt. See summed up his findings 2nd quoted other authorities. He then explained his kinetic theory of the ether which, briefly, is that through- out space is the most tenuous of all the gases—the ether. To the unit particles of this he assigns a diminutiveness inferior to electrons even and a velocity exceeding that of light. Capt. See believes the particles | travel 4t the rate of 294,000 milex per second, while light travels at only 186,000 miles. Tle avers tl etheryon is 4,000 times smaller than a hydro- gen molecule, thus epabling it to penetrate any_other substance and still assist in holding the planets in their places. “DUTCH MILLER COMMITS SUCIDE Cigar Store Owner, Il for Year, Shoots Self in Head. Wife Finds Body. Edward Miller, forty-five, familiar- ly known “Dutch” "Miller, was found dead this afternoon in the shed &t the rear of his home, 529 8th street southeast, with a bullet wound in his right temple and a .J6-cabller ro- volver 1ying by his side. Miller was the owner of the cigar store and had been in the neighborhood practically all his life. According to friends Miller had been suffering from high blood pres- sure for about a year, and last sum- mer spent several months at Ocean City for his health. For the last three weeks, Mr. 3Mil- lers son had .been conducting the business at the store. The body was found about 12:45 by Mrs. Miller, who ran out into the street and called in Policeman Spalding of the fifth pre- cinct. Policeman Spalding immedi- ately notified the coroner and the precinct station. Mrs. Miller became prostrated on learning of her hus- band's death. Miller had been in the cigar and news business practically his entire life. His store was a meeting place for sports- men, more_especially anglers. Richard Miller, a brother, who former- Iy was assdeited with him, was killed in an automobile accident while return- ing from Baltimore more than two years ago. Several companions were Injured at the time he was killed. —_—e ury, Charles B. Brewer at his own expense employed a lawyer and ap- | plied to a local eourt as a citizen and taxpayer for an order protecting him in his possession of this evidence, which was necessary to exonerate the late President Harding and to protect his own reputation and honor and to prevent irreparable damage resulting to the people from the loss or de- struction of the same.” Brewer Examined, Brewer was sharply cross-ques- tioned by members of the committee as to whether he was responsible for President Harding having dismissed the twenty-nine employes. Mr. Brewer replied: “I know who did it. I think 1 better not mention the names now. But they were people in whom Mr. Harding could trust.” Asked by Represeatative Nelson of Wisconsin If he had ever made any direct charges against the bureau people who were dismissed, Mr. Brewer did_not answer direc He sald, however, that he had submitted to the Department of Justice in his re- port evidence of duplication of bonds and irregularities, “The President, however," sald Mr. Brewer, “had far more th that,"” adding that he had later ascertained President Harding had never seen the first Brewer report alleging ir- regularities. At this point Representative T. E. Burton of Ohio interrupted to eay, “I know who did It, but it is pei haps best that this not be sald now Both Mr. Brewer under examini- tion by the committee and Represent- ative King in his statement com- plained of what they said had heen @ deliberate attempt to discrédit Brewer and ‘te blame him as being responsible for the dismissals, Ein- | of ether (the existence of! THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH HOW NURSES’ HOME WILL APPEAR WHEN COMPLETED | i i COPELAND TO SPEAK AT DRIVE DINNER Senator to Make Principal Address ! Before Workers for Hos- i pital Fund. Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York will be the principal speaker at a dinner marking the opening of an intensive ten-day drive for $500,000 for Casualty and Emergency hospitals, in the large ballroom of the Willard | Hotel, Thursday evening, it was an- nounced today. Col. Edward Clifford, leader of the campalgn, today pointed out that Sen- ator Copeland is an authority on health, and particularly on hospitaliz- atlon. He Is widely quoted as an au- thority on these subjects, and is also well known as a writer and lecturer, Le said. Col. Clifford said that progress had been made in organizing the cam- paign forces, which are expected to reach a total of about £00 or more when the campaign is launched Thureday night. He pointed out that all thirty of the team captains in the men's division had been appointed and are at work building up their teams, and said that Mrs, Reginald Huidekoper, chairman of the women's division, is progressing with her or- ganization, UTILITIES CO‘MPANIES OPPOSE PLAN FOR RATES (Continued from First Page.) the law the company would be forced to appeal from it. In opening the hearing Chairman Bell explained that the local commission ex- pects eventually to follow the principle 1o be laid down by the Interstate Com- merce Commission for handling depre- clation, but that in the meantime “we must ude some approximation in arriv- ing at a falr rate and some method of applying depreciation to fair valye. We wish to discuss merely whether you pre- fer the straight-line method or the sink- ing-fund method, and to hear any argu- ment as to how' those depreciation de- ductions should be applied to fair value.” Dozler A. De Vane, attorney for th telephone company, explained th: at the former hearing on depreci tion, in 1921, his company was not included, and wanted to know if they were to take part in this inquiry. Chairman Bell replied: . ‘Since we have to detérmine a value for your company and a fixed rate, we are obliged to oonsider anvthing that pertains to that valuation. The Interstate Commerce Commission set up methods of depreciation for your company, but we must determine the effect of that deprectation upon your fair valuation.” Hamiiton Opposes Plan. On behalf of the Capital Traction Company, George I5. Hamilton, presi- dent, read a prepared statement ex- plaining that with minor modifica- tions the tentative rules of deprecia- tion prepared by the commission in 1921 were satisfactory to the company and have since been followed, with the minor variations cited by the company two years ago. Referring to the direct question of deducting the amount in the depre- ciation reserve from fair wvalue the company stated: # e &% ‘this company would respectfully point out that it now accrues its depreciation reserve on the sinking fund method as is pro- vided In the tentative regulations re- ferred to previously under this meth- od interest accruals on money in the depreciation fund accrued to the re- serve and are not available for the use of the stockholders for any pur- pose, but have the direct effect of re- dueing the annual depreciation allot- ment charged to the public through qperaling expense. “The total amount of thi scompany’s remerve is either invested in Interest- bearing securities or s loaned to the company for capital expendityres. On such loans Interest s paid by the owners of the company inta the fund out of the amount allowed out of the return on falr value. In other words this interest s treated exactly the same as interest or any other funded or unfunded debt. Under these con- ditlons the deduction of the deprecia- tion reserves from falr value would be manifestly unfair to owners of the company. When Mr. Ham took the stand for the Washington Rallway and Electric Company he told the commission that the Capital Traction Company was the only utility allowed by the com- mission to use the sinking fund method. He declared that his com- pany was following the straight-line method by directions in an order from the commission. Heartug to Be Resumed. Secretary Allen interrupted to ex- plain that when the valuations were completed the commission made a tentative arrangement to have each company follow the method it had been using until definite rules were 5lir. Ham explained that his purpose in raising this point was to avoid any conclusion that the depreciation re- serve of his company should be now deducted from fair value because the strajght-line method of setting up depreciation had been used. He said that his claim also would be that no dedyction should be made from falr value for accrued depreciation. " The commission adjourned at noon until 2 o'clock, The Washington- Georgetown Gas Light Company {s tak- ing part in the hearing in additlan to the street railway, electric light and telephone comj les. The hearing Is regarded as an | portant one for the public utiliti since it involves the possible dedu tion from valuation upon which rates for consumers are based. CATHOLIC PRELATE DIES, READING, Pa, March 3.—~Mgr. George Bornemann, ranking Catholle prelate in this district and rector of t. Paul’s Chureh, died early today, aftey an {liness of more than a year. He was eighty-five years eld. i | l ! » mext U. S. CODE EXPERTS TO BE HEARD IN OIL INQUIRY TOMORROW (Continued from First Page.) low down on one Thomas Walsh, & senator from your State.” “To what extent has he been con- nected with Bill Dunn and the radi- cal element?” the writer asked. “No one can give you the desired dope and remain within the realm of Shields wrote, in reply. ‘Walsh is not and never has been a soclalist. His ability and keen sense of justice prevent him from being a radical.” E. L. Doheny, president of the Pan- American Oil ‘and Transport Com- pany, holder of lcases in fornia naval oll reserve, today lssued a statement, in which he charged that the oll Investigation was being conduct- ed, not to bring out the real facts, but to make political capital for the coming election. Mr. Doheny in his statement said: “The election in November—not the legality of the ofl leuses, nor the benefit they are to the government— is the sole factor now controlling the politiclans who are conducting the so-called oil investigation. Says Issue “Leont to Sight.” “The big question ought to be ‘Are these oll leases good for the govern- ment or bad for the government?' but that fundamental question has been wholly lest sight of In the political muck- raking which is being conducted sole- Iy for the purpose of making cam- paign material to influence the com- ing_election,” continued Mr. Doheny. “The American people send senatore and representatives to Washington to legislate. But some of the latter find they can gain far more publicity act- ing as gum-shoe detectives than in trying to act as mtatesmen. And as a great many of them are qualified to act as detectives and wholly ynquali- fied to act as statesmen, perhaps they are really playing thelr proper role. “But I have an abiding confidence in the United States courts, so I know that when my lcaves come be- fore the couris. the question will be decided without any regard to how the decision will affect any presiden- tial candidate, would-be presidential candidate or senatorial ambition. Compares Royalties. “Meantime It will Interest the public to kmow that while the government has leased oil lands In naval reserve No. 3, to abeut thirty different com- panles, in none of which I am inter- ested, it has recelved therefrom a royalty amounting to only slightly over 18 per cent, but that the govern- ment has actually recelved, under its leases with my company in naval reserve No. 1. a royalty averaging over 32 per cent. The official records at Washington show that the govern- ment s getting a great deal more from my leases than it is averaging from all its other leases combined. But you hear no hue and cry about the other leases in Callfornia, and the reason ls that the politicians'who are conducting the investigation are do- ing 8o merely for partisan political purposes and not to bring out the facts, “At present the two political ca: are divided as follows: The democrats at Washington are suppressing the facts, beclouding the l:hluel and, when neces- sary to serve their purposes, are in- ulging tn willful falsehood. Arid the re- publicans have lost both their heads and their spines, and seem afraid to make the slightest show of independence or backbone leat it injure their personal political fortunes in the next election. “Censider the smpectacle the committee is now making of itself. It is deliberate- Jy delaying by its dilatory methods the development of the facts In order to create mystery where none exlsts; to furnish to'the press suggestions of scan- dal where interrogation of the proper witnesses woyld promptly dirsipate these suggestiona. lo caturate the public mind with rumors of corruption and at the same time 8o bore it with a mass of unimportant detail that the people will have become too weary to read the refu- tations when they are reached.” OUSTER ACTION HIT. Doheny Says Committee Did Not Consider Case on Merits, NEW YORK, March 8.—Edward L. Doheny, oil magnate, who was re- moved as second vice president of the democratic state committee of Cali- fornia, last night declared he was gratefyl to those members of the committee who thought it fair that he should not be jydged and con- demned without an oppertunity to be heard. The members of the committee who had ousted him, he said, had not con. sidered his case on its merits and h'ld been inpgpired by campaign poli- tica. Mr. Doheny declared his activities in" connection with the democratic party in California were centered at the last convention upon advocacy of protection of American citizens and rights In forelgn countries, especlally Mexico, and of an expression of en- couragement and approval for the aspirations of the Irish people. will be interesting te learn.,” he said, “if those now reported to be opposed to me in Californis are actu- ated by hostility to the principles I 3dvocated at that time. MONARCHS OF ITALY WILL VISIT ENGLAND King and Queen to Spend Five Days With George and Mary in London. By the Asseciated Press. ROME, March 3.—The Corriere Itali- ano says the exact date for the de- rture of King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena for England to return last year's visit to Italy by King George and *Queen .Mary - will be announced 8OO, Z Il take place during the B L DRI D el Bl PETRE the Cali- | door to the hospital. The nurses are n for Emergency Can- PRESIDENT IGNORES VANDERLIP SPEECH Does Not Care to Dignify Banker’s Statement That He Asked Daugh- erty to Quit, Is Said. White House officlals said today that President Coolidge did not care to dignify by comment the declara- tion of Frank A. Vanderlip yesterday that the President had asked but not received the resignation of Attorney General Daugherty. That story re- peatedly has been denled by all of those In a position to speak authori- tatively. SEES THIRD PARTY. | | l | Retired Banker Says President Must Go Through With Probe. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 3.—Prestdent Coolidge has asked for the resigna- tion of Attorney General Daugherty, but has not recelved it, Frank A. Van- dellp, retired banker, declared yes- terday In an address at the Helghts {Free Synagogue. Asked to elaborate on his assertion or to tell from whom he had obtained this information. Mr. Vanderlip was uncommunicative. “I_will stand on that statement, that's all.” he told newspapr nien. Mr. Vanderlip added in his speech, however, that he had sent word to the President, but did not know whether Ihis communication had been re- celved—that Daugherty should not be allowed to resign If the resignation was to be accompanied by a “white- washing” letter. Sees New Party. Mr. Vanderllp said a uew political party would be formed if the Presi- dent did not “go through” with the present invertization in Washington, “wherever it leads, and purify the federal government.” “Thera will be one plank in its plat- form,” he sald, “and there will be two words in that plank —'be honest.’ " Declaring that “the men In the newspaper fleld have gone soft in thelr capacity for hard investigating service, this being especlally true of the correspendents at Washington," Mr. Vanderlip suggested the forma- tion of a “cltizens’ federal research bureau” to conduct investigations. The data accumulated would be sent to the newspapers of the country, he sald, and “most of them will print it because they will fear that somebody et and then they will have been eft.” TOTAL OF $5,000,000 IN BUSINESS MERGER Largest Combine of Manufacturers of Lighting Fixtures in History of the Industry. By the Associated Press, MERIDEN, Conn. March 3.—The largest combination of manufac- turers of lighting fixtures in the his- tory of the industry was effected last weelk at the firet meeting of the new- the office of Edward Miller & Co., here. it became known yesterday. The Miller Company &s now con- stityted represents a merger of Ed- ward Miiler & Co. of this city, city and the Ivanhoe Regents Works of Cleveland, with total assets of $5,000,000. For the present the general offices and headquarters of the combination will be at the old Edward Miller plant here. Rex J. Cole of New York remains president, and Michael Schwarz of this city vice president and general manager, as well as membere of the ‘board of directors. F. S. Terry of Cleveland, vice president of the Gen eral Electric Company, and Douglas Thomson of Hartford are also direc- SENATE MAY PROBE GRAND JURY CHARGE| Special Committee to Investigate Statement Members of Congress Received “Certain Sums.” - The report of the Chicage grand jury, which Indicted Charles R, Forbes, former director of the United States Veterans' Bureau, which sald “that certain sums of money were paid to two members of Congress,” probably will be investigated by the Senate special committeq which has been Investigating the Veterans' Bu- reau, it was leawned today. The mat- ter will be discussed at 4 meeting f the subcommittee drafting legislation relating to the Veterans' Bureau this afternoon. Senator Brookhart of Towa, chair- man of the special commitiea ap- pointed to investigate the Departmant of Justice and Attorney ~General Daugherty’s administration, when his attention was called to the repert of the Chicago grand jury. said that while his commitiee probably woyld have jurisdiction {n the muatter, -he bellfeved that the Veterans' Byreau committes; which is still at work, was the proper committee to look inte the charges regardink the mem _of Congress. Iy incorporated Miller Company, at the | Duplexalite Corporation of New York ; 3, 1924, PROBE OF SINCLAIR - URGED IN FRANCE U. S. 0il Man’s Activity With Stinnes Causes “Suspicion” in Paris Circles. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Radlo to The Stur and the Chicago Daily N Ce ht, 1924, ews. © PARIS, March 3.—R. Menevee, di- rector of ‘“informations politiques aux financieres,” makes the ofl mcandal in the United States the pretext for asking the French government for light on Harry Sinclair's activities in France, particularly as having pos- sibly been the means of occult pene- tration of the French oll industry by the German mugnate, Hugo Stinnes. Sinclair's principal partner in France seems to have been Compagnie Industrielle des Petroles, founded before the war with participation of German capital by Theodore Mante, who is said to have been condemned during the war for commerce with ithe enemy I sumea his oil interests. Organized Companien. In 1919 Sinclalr joined this French company in founding the Compagnie Franco-Americaine de Combustibles. The following ycar he took 40 per cent of a capital increase of Com- pagnie Industriclle and also formed Soclete Mazouts Transperts. In 1921 Sinclalr participated in forming Com- pagnie des Hulles Sinco. In 1322, the Franco-Americaine was dissolved owing to failure of the French gov- ernment te remove certain restric- tions on the rale of oll in France, but in 1923 Compagnie des Hulles ‘Tiona was formed, which was related to Compagnie des Hulles Texaco, formed in 1920 by the Texaco Com- pany. Finally, it 18 said that J. M. Cudahy, president of the Cudahy Pipe Lines, which are controlled by Stinnes, 18 vice president and memher of the board of directors of the Sinclair Ofl Company. Menevee's thesls, based on the foregolng asertions, 18 that Sinclalr and Stinnes are close busi- ness aseociates and that Sinclalr, be- lnF still Interested in varlous French oll compantes, there is reason to sus- pect that Stinnes, through Sinclalr, may be working his way into these companles. “Sueh are lings of the chain which thoge Ignorant of the technic of trusts an konzerns may call imaginary,” says Menevee. *“We, how- cver, cons'der it & state of affairs which permits very sort of suspi- cion and fear.” BULDING PROGRAN CONES UP FRDAY House Committee Will Con- sider . Legislation for $50,000,000 Plans. Legislation covering the $50,000,000 huilding program recommended to Congress by President Coolidge for the housing of government activities in government-owned . bulldings in the District as real economy legisla- tion of urgent necessity will be con- sidered by the House committee on public buildings and grounds Friday morning. The public bullding program for the District of Columbla, with a new building for the internal revenue bu- reau, a new office bullding for the Department of Agriculture, a na- tional archives building and & build- ing for the activities that come un- der the controller general as major projects. will be considered by the House committec at the same time that an omnibus public buildings bill | is_discussed. The situation really is that President Coolidge is insisting that the $50,000,000 building program for the District, which Is of urgent necessity, must be author- ized as promptly as poesible. On the other hand, Chalrman Langley of the House committee, fortified by protests from congressmen that federal buildings are urgently needed all over the coun- try, and with the Post Office Department supporting this contention, is reluctant to report out a public bulldings bill for the District until there is a reasonable assurance that a general public building bill for the entire country also will be paseed. —— ELIGIBLE TEACHER LIST EXHAUSTED School Officials to Hold Examina- tions for Creation of New Roll. with {for appointment elementary public schopls depleted, lschool officials today began prepara- tions for an examination in order to create a new list. The examination, Assistant Supt. Robert L. Haycock said, will be held prior to the Haster holidays. Meantime, vacancies that occur In the teaching corps will be filled by the appointment of tempo- rary teachere. Although & fow names remain on the high school eligible list, Mr. Hay- cock explained that un examination for high school teachers also would have to be held In the ncar fyture. The high school examination will bc set for the middle of April. : School officials are havisg consider- able difficulty in finding applicants for teaching positions, and are now drawing on other citles for teachers. Positiong_have been offered to two former Washington teachers, one of whom is now_in Minnesota and. the other in New York. FOUR BRITISH AIRMEN KILLED IN CRASHES Two Others Injured in Collision. Third Man Hurt When Plane Falls. the list of teachers eligible to positions in the By the Assoclated Press, 2 LONDON, March 3.—Four airmen were killed and three others injured in two crashes at diffcrent airdromes in England teday. : At Duxford, Cambridge, two air- planes approaching an airdrome col- lided and crashed to earth. Sergt. Bont, the pilot, and Officer Peck were killed In one machine and Lieyt. Al- brecht and & passenser. wero eri- oysly {njured in the other. At Biggin Hill an airpiane got ‘oyt Shifh and Seret. Lister were killed mith and Serg were in the crash and the mechanle was injured. but who since has re-! ——— INDIAN-NATIONALISTS TO OPPOSE BRITISH ‘Will Refuse t> Vote Supplies as Re- sponse to Stand Against Round Table. By the Arsocated Pross. DELHI, British Indis, March 3.— The Afty-two swarajist (home rul and independent members of the as. sembly have resolved to refuse to vote suppli British government's tory” reeponse to the demand for a round table conference. The nationalist party, to which the fifty-two belong, will further consid- er its position on Friday, on the eve of the government's motion to vote the supplies. i MAL 1. F. HODGSON, WARVETERAN, DEAD Succumbs to lliness From Which He Suffered Since Return From France. | Maj. Joseph F. Hodgson, forty-five vears old, a veteran of the Spanish- American war, the Mexican punitive expedition and the world war, died at the Walter Reed Hospital Satur- day, following an fllness of two years, with which he had suffered ever since he had returned from France. Funeral services will be conducted at his late residence, 1320 Longfel- low street, tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock. 'Rev. J. Frederic Wenchel, pastor of the Christ English Evangel- ical Luthern Church, will officlate. Interment will be in the Arlington Cemetery with military escort. Maje. T. E, Fawcett, Alexander Somers, John W. Oehman, W. Law- rence Hazzard, Willlam ‘McCathran and_Alvin Hathaway, whom he knew while he was in the service, will act us pallbearers at the house, while at the cemetery soldiers will be the active pallbearers and the former will serve us honorary pallbearers. Native of Washington. Maj. Hodgson was born In thls city. Me was the son of John Hodgson, a member of an old Washington fam- ily. He was a graduate of Business High School. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he went into service with the District ot Co- lumbla volunteersfl, with which he sorved throughout the war. While serving with the American punitive expedition in Mexico he obtained the rank of major. During the world war he served with the 2d Division in France, with the rank of major. In April, 1817, he was with the 3d District of Columbla. Infantry at Fort Myer, Va. He was later transferred to the 163d Infan- try, at Camp Greene, N. C., and was with that organization until trans ferred to the 9th Infantry, July 28, 1918, at which time he was put in command of the ist Battalion of the latter organization. He saw active service during the St. Mihiel drive and also in the woods near Limey. The regiment at that time was iu command of Col. G. W. Stuart. Was Widely Known. Maj. Tlodgson was, at the time of his_death, employed by the Eastman | Kodak Company. He was widely i known-in this city by members of the | various veterans' aswoclations. He jwas a member of the Columbia Post, ! Veterane of Forelgn Wars; Henry C. Spangler Post, Number 12 Amerlcan Legion, and connected with the United’ Spanish War Veterans. He is survived by his wife, Mre. Madolin Smithson Tlodgson: a son, John Charles Hodgson of this city: two brothers, Millard Hodgson of Rochester, N. Y. and Clifiord Hodg- son of this city, and a sister, Mrs. L. Thadeus. PROPER OBSERVANCE OF SABBATH URGED| Lord's Day Alliance Group Ex- plains Aims to President at White House. More proper observance of the Sab- bath in the District of Colymbia was urged by a committee representing the Lord's Day Alliance, which had an audience: with the President a the White House today, . As an immediate remedy they said they approved the Wdge-Kelley bill, which among other things would re- quire a large number of business concerns and amusement places that now are open on Sunday to close on that day. The committee also called the at- tention of the President to the need for legislation increasing the pay of the postal employes generally “and said that they hoped he would ap- prove such a bill if it is passed at this session of Congress. Those in the delegation were H. L. Bowlby, ¢3- ecytive officer of the alllance: Rev.| H. H. McQuilkin of Orange, N. J Rev. Joseph T. Kelly, pastor of the Fourth Preebyterian Church of this city; Rev. W. W. Davis, Washington representative of the Lord's Day Al- liance, and Rev. Thomas C. Clark i ! i this way. The President was told that during the war this organization gave 500,000 pocket testaments to the sol- diers, The President was represented as expressing great interest in thig work, saying that a_better knowl- tdge "of ‘Gog could not but make for better citizenship: A committee representing the pulp per industry of this country, headed by A. G. Payne of New York, called on President Coolidge today to dlsouss with him certain features of the tax proposed by Canada to be levied on pulp export. Before secing the Presldent the committee took up the matter with Secretary of Com- merce Hoover. INSPECTOR IN VETERANS’ BUREAU GIVES UP PLACE iof the Takoma Park Presbyterian Church. Fears Baltimore Body. Lawrence B. Greenwood and- Joseph C. Phillips of Baltimore, Md.. repre- gentatives of the Baltimore Business Men’s Council Pocket Testament League, explained to the President to- day the work being done by that na- tional movement, which has resulted in the free distribytion of more than one million pocket testaments throughout the United States. At the present time the league is active in placing these books in the hands of industrial workers, and during the past six months more than two hundred thou- 'sand comples have been disposed of in Maj. W. 0. Watts, District No. 2, i Sends Resignation to New York Office. { By the Amociated Pre s NEW YORK. March 3.—Maj. W. O. Watts has veslkned as chiet of the In- | spection =ection, district No. 2, United States Veterans' Bureau, ft was an- nounced last night by Col. Edward Olmstead, head of the bureau here. Just the one word, “disgust,” was as- signed by Col. OTmstead as the cause of Maj. Watts' resignation. He sajd the "v’nuor had. made an excellent record.. : h A published statement that Maj. ‘Watts had told him of re itly mak- ing public certain confident records wag denied by Col. Olmstead. MRS, CANDLER FREE AFTER SHORT TRIAL One Companion Also Cleared, But Other Held—Arrested in Apartment. By the Assoclated Press, ATLANTA, March 3.—The ocase against Mrs. Asa G. Candler and C. W. Keeling was dismissed, and W. J. Stoddard was bound over for another trial under bond of 3300 here today when they were given a hearing in noflce court on a charge of having been in a place where intoxieants were being drunk. Hundreds of spectators wers in po- lice court when the case was called for trial. . The three are charged with a city code violation growing out of & ruid made by the.police on February 9 in an apartment house and the arrest of the defendunts. A small quantity of liquor was said to have been seized. Chief of Police Beavers, the first witness, said that he led the raid upon a complaint made to him by “Asa Candler. sr. “l got a call to place from u party who was shadow ing Mrs, Candler and W. J. Stoddard, £ald Chief Beavers. “I had assigned no one to the case, and at the request of the family I kept it a secret. “The men shadowing Mrs. Candler sald she and Stoddard were in apart ment No. 8, at 48 Juniper street, It was located on the second floor. went to the apartment and d. ‘Anybody in this apartment? and somebody said ‘No.' I heard a ehair scrape, however, and I knocked on the door. Mr. Keeling came to the door and let me in,” the chief said. “We walked down the hall and [ saw a door leading to a room which was shut. I grabbed the door knob and opened It. Mrs. Candler was hold- ing the door. I saw Mr. Stoddard in his shirt sleeves. “What fs your name? he replied, ‘If you tell me who sent here I'll tell you.' other places doing like thi: comment of Mrs. Candler,” sald. the chicl Found Whisky is Bottle. A bottle contalning whisky was u the table. He continued. “Whose apartment is this? Mrs. Candler. . “It is Mrs. Kinbler's and she's in Decatur today,” Mre. Candler told me “I then brought them to the polive = station in my car, where bond wi signed,” the chief concluded A bo! tle containing a &mall quantity of whisky was introduced In evidence “It's good stuff.” the chief declared, as he held the bottle yp to the court. “They all told me they had drunk some of it,” the chiet sald. On cress-examination hief Beav- ers said that Mrs. Candler was Ident fied by a “Mr. Tom Pitls, represent- ing Mr. Candler.” “3r. Pitts had been shadowing Mrs Candler for some time,” the chief added. Chiét Beavers admitted that Pitt requested that Mrs. Candler be taker, to the police station, as “he wantcll them all treated allke.” “Mrs. Candler asked me not to put her name on the docket,” he sald. CLAIMS ELDERS KEEP RELIGION LOCKED UP Speaker Says Church Is Held by Some Like " it for Pre- cious Relics. T asked By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 3.—Some people re treating the church like a vault or the safekeeping of old relics, Dr. Hugh Black of New York city de- clared last night in addressing the, Sunday Evening Club. “These precious old truths are carefully guarded by the elders, who become sort of watchdogs and do « great deal of barking—most of it up the wrong tree,” Iir. Black said. “Others would © the church a sort of love feast with no backbone, just a slush of sentiment, bleating about peace where there i no peace and offering no practical program for the obtaining of peace. “The present difference in the church cannct Le adjusted by a uni- form creed or unity in any uniform- ity. It would be a casc of the lion and the lamt lving down together— with the lamb inside. The church can co-operate by having a commen pur. pose to advance justice and right’ DEATH AUTO DRIVER GETS PRISON TERM Frederick Lee Wood, colored, twen ty-four years old, was sentenced to- day by Justice Hoehling, in Criminal Division 2, to serve ten years in the penitentiars. Wood was operating_ an automobile July 23 last on 3Id street southeast between C and D strects when he struck and injured Madonna Madden, a ten-year-old white child, Inflicting injuries from which she dled a few days later. He pleaded gullty. The sentence is the largest ever imposed in this District in a traMe/ accldent case on a charge of mar Elaughter, but Probation Ofice Steele, who investigated the ¢ ported to the court that it wi extremely aggravated case of megli- ence with no extenuations.” Justice floenling in impoxing sentence de- clared the crime a serious ou Wood, it is stated. hud be: ing and when the child was struck was on the wrong side of the roud- PACIFIC FLEET ARRIVES AT NEW YORK FOR VISIT Admiral Coontz Aboard Flagship Seattle—Ten Big Vessels in Line. , By the Associated Press. 8 NEW YORK, March 3.—With the flagship Seattle showing the way, the ten battleships.of the Pacific fleet steamed up_ the 'Hudson river today to pay New York its first visit since July, 1919, Admiral Coontz, commander-in-cl of the entire United Statgs fleet, was aboard the Seattle. Other high offi- clals were Admiral S. S. Robison. commander of the battle Yleet; Vive Admiral H. A. Wiley, commanding the battieship divisions, and- Reur Admirals W. C. Cole, L. A. Bostwick; W. V. Pratt’and L. M. Nulton, The visiting vessels ure the Caltf- ornia, making its initial appeavancd in New York harbor; the Tennessee! Maryland, New -Mexico, Seattle, Ari- zona, ldaho, Misslasippl, New ' York, Texas and Nevada. About 800 officers and 13,000 enlist- ed men are aboard, [ 1 ) , (