Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1924, Page 1

» WEATHER. Fair tonight: tomorrow cloudy, be- coming - unsettled; lowest temperature tonight about 30 degrees. Temperature for twenty-four hours onded at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 42, at noon today: lowest, 32, at 6 a.m. to- day. Full report on page 7. Late N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 22 — Entered as second-class matter . 99175 No. 29,175, [0R™ehms Washingion, D. C. . DAUGHERTY NAMED *S7 k7 DESPIT BY MUMA AS FIL CONSPIRACY PARTY, WITNESS TESTIFIES Former U. S. Agent, on Stand in Probe, Says Attorney General Saw Big “Cut” in Profits for Backers. By the Associated Press. CLOVER FIELD, Santa Monica, Calif, March 17.—The Army flight around the world started today at 9:32 am. , Maj. Martin was the first to get away. Lieut. Wade, -photographer, was the second world flyer to get away and Lieut. Smith, pilot, was third to take off. The world eruisers circled around Clover ¥ield for altitude as & large crowd waved farewell. They flew in | formation. with Maj. Frederick L. | Martin to the front and Lieut Lowell Smith and Leigh Wade paral- ) lel to the rear. 1 The three cruisers flew over thel northern edge of the fleld headed for | cramento, their first. stop. at 9:40 Licuf. Col. William E. Gillmore, air | ofticer of the 4th Corps Area, led | seventeen airplanes from Crissy | ¥jeld. San Francisco, as escort to the world fiyers, The tiight is not a race around the world, but is a pioneering, explora- tion trip, carefully mapped out to de- termine a practical airway around the | world and o obtain scientific data on | the effect of various climates on mod- ern aircraft. There will be no spec- TEAPOT OIL PROBE | IN'ITS LAST PHASE; Auditor’s Report on Dealings! in Stocks to Be Taken Up Tomorrow. TOLD PICTURES, SHOWN IN 21 STATES, PAID WELL “Was Informed Harding, Hughes and New Joined in Discussion of Distribution of Fight Movie at McLean Home Here, Holdridge Tells Senate Investigators. i { A story alleging that Attorney “Geieral Daugherty was himself con- cerned in an unlawiul tonspiracy to exhibit the Dempsey-Carpentier fight films, and had suggested that those behind the scheme should get 2 50 per cent “cut” in the profits, was related today to the Senate commit- tee investigating the Department of | v Justice. Gerald O. Holdridge, a former se- cret agent of the department, told the story as he said it had been re- | iated to him by Jap Muma. New York correspondent of the Cingin- w» mati Enquirer and one of those named as a backer of the distrubu- 1 With Senator Walsh, democmL1 Montana, chief prosecutor of the oil| inquiry, recovering from the bron- STARTS DESPITE BAD WEATHER Three Planes Take Off After Reaching High'Alu'lude To Get Above Clouds—Will Stop at Sacra- mento, 400 Miles Away, Over Night. | another stop at Vancouver Barracks, Foenit WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g | WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1924 —-THIRTY-TWO PAGES. ROUND WORLD | tacular dashes, although many legs of the great journey will be replete with thrills in the variety of climate experienced from Arctic to tropic variations, During the four or more months of the flight the aviators will be out of sight of land only four times. The longest jump will be some seven hun- dred miles and stations have been es- tablished around the earth, with ex- perienced American Army flyers al-| ready there, or, in the case of the more remote ones, en route, The flight will' be up the Pacific coast to Alaska, with an overnight stop_at Sacramento, Calif., tonight: Wash., Tuesday, several days at Wednesday, while changed for pontoons. cruisers will iy over British Columbia to Alaska, across the Aleutian Islands to the Kuriles, and a sojourn of Seattle, beginning i gear i | north of Japan, down through Japan, across Chosen to! China, down the Chinese coast| through French Indo China, Burma, India to Persia; over Mesopotamia and Syria, over the Holy Land, through ‘Purkey, over Rumania, Serbia, Aus- tria, Germany, France, England, Ire- 1and and over the Orkneys and Faroe Islands to lceland, Greenland, Labra- dor, down through Canada and the New Kngland cosst to Washington, and thence across the country to Clover Kield. f HOUSE GETS REPORT ON SOLDIER BONUS Calls for No Additional Taxes, Green States—Passage Tomorrow Indicated. Two reports on the soldier banusi bill wewe presented to the House to- day by the ways and means commit- hence the | twell as its accompanying agreements iat Cheyenne. Wyo., with reference to ! tion plan. Holdridge read to the committee under oath a long state- ment regarding his conversations with Muma, and at the end oi the statement there was an indorsement ; by Thomas Spellacy, another former | department agent, sayving the asser- tions made were “absolutely true.”| Spellacy, Holdridge said. was present | when he talked with Muma. ! Transferred By Burns, After he had heard Muma's story Holdridge went on, he came to ‘Washington and related It to William J. Burns, head of the Justice Depart- ment's bureau of investigation, In-! stead of ordering any prosecutions however, he said, Burns transferred | him to a long-pending bank case. Some time afterward, he said, he Quit the government servieg “in dis- sust.” According to Muma, as quoted by Holdridge, the plan to show the pic- tures over the country, despite the v federal law against their transpor- ! i | i chial trouble which caused a sudden suspension of the hearings Friday. the investigating committee is expect- ed tomorrow to enter upon the last phases of its work. Members of the committee have forecast that all evidence would be in the record by the end of the month. Senator Walsh plans to start tomorrow with the auditors' report on oil stock deals here, at New York and at Cleveland by government offi- cials. He intends then to take up the suggestions contained in the stat ment of Leonsard Wood, jr. that h father was offered support for the presidential nomination during the 1920 republican national convention on condition that he agree to give the Interior secretaryship, if elected, to Jake Hamon. Oklahoma oil man and politician, who later was killed. The committee also intends to ex- amine Harry F. Sinclair again and question James O. Darden with ref- erence, among other things, to the efforts of the Mutual Oil Company to establish a claim on Teapot Dome which brought about the use of ma rines to evict its workmen. A sul poena for Mr. Darden was issued by {today by proponents A two-thirds !tee, four republicans signing a mi- ! nority statement opposing the measure. Chairman Green, in the majority Ireport. stated that éxpenditures under | {the bill, estimated at $2.119,000,000, ' could be met from prospective sav-| {ings In current government expenses . and called for no additional taxes. | The minority statement, signed by | | Representatives Treadway, Massachu- | isetts; Tilson, Connecticut; Watson, Pennsylvania. and Mills, New York,, declared if the bill werc enacted its | equirements threatened the likelihood | iof future tax reductions. |heny in November, SUT FILED 10 VOD) DOHENY DI, LEASE ON BRBERYCHARCE Pomerene and Roberts Ask| Injunction to Stop Produc- tion in California. BILL AVERS FALL GOT $100,000 FOR CONTRACT Misled Harding and Denby Into Authorizing Policy, Says + U. 8. Petition. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, March 17.—Suit to cancel the lease of California mnaval oil lands to the Pan-American Pe- | troleum and Transport Company, as i for construction and stocking by that | company of mnaval oil storage facili- ties at Pearl Harbor, Hawall, was filed by the government here today. The bill of complaint charges that bribery entered into the making of | the agreements, as well as: alleging | fraud, comspiracy and illegality, as in the case of the suit filed March 13| BARNETT S RGED AS COMMISSONE Retired Marine Officer Sug- gested as City Head—Maj. Gen. Beach Also Mentioned. the Teapot Dome lease and contracts. Ank Temporary Injunction. As in the Teapot suit, the govern-| ment's special counsel, Atlee Pomer- | cne and Owen J. Roberts, asked the | United States District Court to issue | a temporary injunction stopping the production of oil, appoint receivers to take possession and control of the| oil lands, and to enter a final de-| cree declaring void and cancelling the | lease and associated arrangements. The Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company and its subsidi- | ary, the Pan-American Petroleum ! Company, were made defendants in the action, and E. L. Doheny, presi- | dent of the oil company, and Albert | B. Fall, forfher Socretary of Interfor, | Epiracy to detraud the United States| FPresident Coolidge has not vet “for the private gain of sald Fall, and ! made up his mind regarding the fill-| of defendants, for whom said Do-{ing of the two civilian commission- heny acted. {erships of the District now being Charges Bribe of $100,000. iheld by Cuno H. Rudolph and James For the creation of certain rights F. Oyster, whose terms expired last in the defendants, “Fall was to re- week. In making this known at the ceive certuin rewards from said Do- | White House today a spokesman for heny.” the bill avers, adding that the | the President sald that the President payment to Fall of $100,000 by Do-:in the meantime is considerirg the 1921, was “that|availability of a number of persons certain reward theretofore promised.” | whose names have been suggested to i Prospects for pussage of the meas- {ure tomorrow were declared bright | 1 will | rules, | ivote is nece:sary, since the bil come up under su:pension of the which also limite debate ahd prevents amendments. Explaining_provisions of the bill} allowing cash payments to veterans | not entitled to more than $50 and| Ipatd-up_life insurance policies to others, Mr. Green argued that it “con- I‘ {fers substantial benefits upon the! !soldiers, is based on economically | sound principles and can be paid! for without embarrassing the Treas- In developing the conspiracy, the|him for appointment to tnese po- -complaint charges. Fall and Doheny | yitions. - by “fafse, fraudulent and untrue” 3 - > representations fhduced President| It i8 expiained also that before H.r‘?lnglrdn :ond“snl:hl to :L‘nlm‘tl-'mkln‘ up his mind definitely re-, ecutive order authoriZing the leasing. | gording the two present Commission- | Secretary Denby of the Navy Depart- | S0 T8 L0 TWE OIO0e Tt FImTEEm ot ment, it adds, was likewise induced to proceed with the transaction, al-|study the report of an investigation though the leasing project in its en- | being made of them. This is expect. tirety is declared to be “without au-|ed to be in the hands of the Presi thority of law.” dent within the next day or so and! Proceeding under his understanding | will deal principally with their ac-| with Doheny, the complaint continues, | tivities as members of the Zoning | Fall, “purporting to act on behalf of he United States,” invited proposals Among the names suggested fori| “OH, [l—'r . '-I!M//((; FOR A PATRICK! Senate Votes Down, 70 to 4, Single Term Plan for President The Senate refused today, by a vote of 70 to 4, to approve a proposed constitational amend- ment limiting the Presddent to on= term of four years. nx an omendment to a_jeint resolution by Semator republican. Nebraxka. to climinate the “xhort” wions of Congress. ripple of laughter greeted the afirmative vcte of Semator Underwood, democrat, Al GOVERNOR ON TRIAL IN FRAUD CASE McCray ‘Charged With Tak- ing $155,000 From State. First of 15 Counts. wewnn By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, March 17.—War- and the Public Utilities commissions, jren T. McCray., Governor of Indiana. ' “From Press to Home Within the Hour” . The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edition is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, Sunday’s Circulation, TWO CENTS. AUTHORITY T0 PUT OFFICERS IN CIVL 'POSTS T0 BE ASKED Weeks Going to Congress for Power Denied in Ruling by Controller. |FY;|“H].I'| o e\ in i ) KIRBY LEAVES BUREAU, BUT MAY GIVE ADVICE ;Engnving Personnel “Carry On" Without Acting Director—Suc- cessor Not Selected. Confronted with the necessity of 1« | turning to active military duty be- |fore June 30, a number of army of | ficers now occupying civil posts, Sec retary of War Weeks today announc ‘ed he will ask Congress to give the | President authority to continue thes |officers in the civilian service where {ever needed. | The Secretary's statement followsd | Controller General McCarl's ruling ir ithe case of Maj. Wallace W. Kirb: lacting director of the bureau of er | graving and printing, who today wen | back to military duty in order not to |lose his military pay and allowances About ten or twelve other Army o ficers and two or three naval officers are affected by the ruling. m are understood to be in highly sible positions, in Washingto: Important Immes at Stake. !REGRETS PASSION | i |temporarily embarassing to the de- | partments concerned. Because of the | meneral principle involved, as well as |the important interests at stake } the hands of these officers now, the ! Secretary thought it desirable to ob | {tain legislation if possible to remedy Coolidge Writes to Lang. Matter Causes Debate on Senate Floor. i i President Coolidge's action in cut- 'ting short Saturday a program of | addresses at his reception to the| Oberammergau Passion Players, | which brought an explanation from | the White House today, stirred up! a debate in the Senate. In a letter to Anton Lang, the Christus of the players, Mr. Cool- idge expressed pleasure that the visitors had come to the White House and set forth that the only reason | for the incident was the fact that it | }is not permissible for the President | [to receive public addresses from peo- |ple of other nations except through | diplomatic channels. ‘ Dill Regrets Inctdent. The incident was taken up in the! Senate by Senator DIll, democrat, of | Washington, who said he regretted | that the President “had not taken a| broader and more humane view of the | delegation’s plea in behalf of suffer-| | | | | i i 1 the situation The controller had ruled that off cers of the Army, under the law. not legally perform civil services unless specifically authorized. The necessity of relieving Maj. Kirby from the bureau of engraving and printing, Secretary Weeks said. was a source of regret not only to the Treasury Department but to him self as well. Maj. Kirby has been relieved from all official connection with the bureau, the Secretary ex- plained, and has resumed his regular duties in charge of the engineer ra- production plant at Washington bar- rack: May Still Give Advice. Notwithstanding that the officer no longer had any official cenmection with the bureau, Secretary Weeks said he could see no possible objection i to his giving the Treasury officials any information or advice they desiro after office hours at the Washington barracks and during his own time, just as he might do for any one else who sought his advice under similar conditions. The Treasury was understood today to be placed in somewhat of a quan- today stood trial in the Marion county | George Barnett, U5 M. %o freq | criminal court on an indictment re- proposals, however, it adds, were “so | who Is well known in Washington, | turned against him by the grahd jury drawn that no one but the defendant | having lived here a number of years | charging embezzlement of $155,000 | %! Pan-American Petroleum and Trans- | while serving as commandant of u":,mm"mi it Baaea o xngrlrcuil:;x":eoi ury,” and he estimated that the aver- age value of the insurance policie: | would be about $962. | Members of the democratic vet lerans group were disturbed becaus | they had been denled the opportunity | under the rules of offering an amend- ment providing for full cash pay-| ofl committee a month ago, but has just been found by Senate process servers. The Daugherty in- vestigating committee meanwhile also has issued a subpoena for him, and he is expected to testify at both in- auiries. ing German children.” dary by the relief of Maj. Kirby from President Coolldge told the players | the’ the directorship of the ;»urei.u.kxn in his letter that he wished to cor-| official announcement of any ind rect a “possible wrong impression” | was {;\‘:lrhc(v“r!'\nmx:‘l-:lfl:: was learnea in regard to the inciden .| tha ¢ was & hope Maj. ¥ iterated his pleasure at xeiln}“?.n{é._\ might unnmm\:ll!i ?ld:“wle“lrx\!l:\:uli\:vtl"fl his appreciation of their work and his | ation of the burea tation across state lines, followed a private exhibiiion at the home here of Edward B. McLean, attended by President Harding and members of the cabinet. Discussion General. for royalty oil accruing from the appointment is that of Maj. Gen. California naval oil reserves. The could or would bid | Marine Corps, and who is making his | port Company |home here at this time., Maj. Gen.|It was the first time in the state's | thereon,” the object being to permit ‘At the conclusion of the showing &t the McLean house, Holdridge said, | uma has a talk with Attorney| General Daugherty and the President, and later Secretary Hughes, Secretary | Christian and Harry 8. New, then a| senator and now Postmaster Gen- eral, joined in the discussion. “He (Muma) told .me it seemed to! be the general opinion, said the wit- ness, “that it was & shame people could not sec them.” Later auma, talking with the Attorney General Je told me, was told that the law against the pictures was solely di- . Tected to their transportation. “Muma went on to say Attorney! General Daugherty directed him to| see Alfred R. Urion, an attorney in Washington. He said he saw Uri and that he told him what to do.’ Reached Understanding. Muma then was quoted as saying that he reached an understanding ‘with Ufion, who was supposed to be a friend of the Attorney General,| with the result that “we went to it,” exhibiting the pictures in more than twenty states, with large profits. The witness also declared that Muma had shown him a copy of the contract under which the deal was consummated, and under which under a dummy name, was to 50 per cent of thc profits. The contract, he said, bore the names of Tex Rickard, the fight promoter, and F. C. Quimby, producer of the pictur Holdrige's testimony followed in{ many particulars that of Quimby, ! who was on the'stand Saturday. He had told the committee Muma and | others made an agreement for ex- hibition of the films without Depart- ment of Justice interference, and | that money was paid out in connec- tion with the agreement. _Another witness last week, Gaston B. Means, testified that while -he was employed | as a Department of Justice agent he received and turned over to Jess Smith, Mr. Daugherty’s personal alde, Jarge sums of money on account of | the fight films. Holdridge was tie first witness. The witness was asked what he Ynew about any arrangement where- ¢ the pictures were to be exhibited | r the country in spite of the law prohibiting their transportation in interstate commerce/ F. C. Quimby. nroducer of the films, has testified that they were shown in twenty-two states under an ‘“understanding’ that_there would be no interference by the Justice Department, and Gas- ton B. Means, once an agent for the department, has told the committee that he recelved and passed to Jess Smith, close friend of Attorney Gen | oral Daugherty; various sums of money in consequence of such an ar- rangement. To Probe Gun Runaing. ‘While Holdridge was on the stand the committee also made plans to| follow up its investigation into gun running on the Mexican border and into_stories of American financial aid to Mexican revolutionists A sub- poena was announced for Casey ! Adams, former mayor of Calexico:| Calif., who was said to have knowl- | * edge of Cantu revolutionary affairs in lower California. A. A. Papro, Chicago, also was sum. (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) i | i adopts a “conservative LAFOLLETTE MAKES 310 PARTY THREAT Says He Will Seek Presi- dency if Coolidge Runs on Conservative Platform. Senator La Follette of Wisconsin will accept a third-party nomination for the presidency if the republican| convention at Cleveland next June nominates President Coolidge and " platform. Senator La Follette is discourag- ing his friends from making a fight for him in the republican convention, ments as an optional of the measure, | but leaders indicated most of them | would vote for the bill and depend on | Scnate action for the full cash pay- | ment option. | Twenty-one of the twenty-two democrat members from New York state signed a statement declaring they favored immediate passage of soldier bonus Jegislation, but pre- ferred “immediate all-cash pay- ments.” Chairman Green in his report said two bonus bills had passed the| House and one of them both the Senate ‘and House. The latter, he said, was vetoed by President Hard- ing, but the present measure Wwas framed “so that it will become law.” The policles would be valued on the basis of the adjusted service com- ! pensation provided in the vetoed bill, $1 for each day of home service, and $1.25 for each day overseas. The first sixty days would not be counted. Veterans who served more than 110 days and would not be entitled to cash would receive a paid-up twenty- Year-endowment _policy _for the amount of insurance, their adjusted service credit plus 25 per cent would purchase at their age. Such insur-| ance would be computed in accord- ance with accepted actuarial prin- ciples and based upon American ex- perience tables of mortality, with in- but has indicated to them that should the Cleveland nomination and pla form be reactionary from the view- point of his group, he will not look with disfavor upon a third-party nomination. Leaders in movements, mostly in the central west and northwest, to push a third party have been in con- ference with Senator La Follette. He is reported by those who have recently talked with him as feeling that his group have no hopes of complishing within the republi party what they are aiming to bring | about, but must look for success in a | third ticket, which may draw from | both parties. | Opposed to Convention. The senator’s visitors say he is also opposed to a third party con- vention. A progressive meeting is scheduled in St. Paul on June 17, after | the republican convention at Cleve- land under the supervision of the committee of forty-eight. i n Circulation of The Sunday Star | One year ago... 99,142 Gain, 7,510 The circulation of The Star every evening and Sunday morning seems to be growing faster than the city’s population. terest at 4 per cent per annum, com- pounded annually If the veteran died before the twenty years were up, the full amount of the policy would be paid his beneficiaries or his estate At ma- turitv the face value of the policy would he payable in full The policies would be dated from next January 1. Estimate of Majority Report. The majority report estimated the: average adjusted compensation due veterans would be $382 each. The maximum number of days which could be counted are 560. Service any time between April 5, 1917, and July 1, 1919, would be counted if en- listment was made prior to November 11, 1918, Adjustment service credit of $496.62 would be worth a policy valued at $1,000. Chairman Green estimated that on January 1, 1924, there were 3,038,283 veterans living who would be entitled (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) | BIG PARADE OF IRISH EXPECTED IN NEW YORK Republican Sympathizers Will Not March With Others, Lead ers Declare. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, March 17.—Despite a division in the ranks of New York's Irish population over the question of the “Irish republic,” 25,000 men and women are expected to march up| 5th avenue under the green of St Patrick today. Followers of Eamonn De Valera will not_be among the marchers. Maj. M. A. Kelly, an officer of the American Assoclation for Recognition of the irish republic, stated that the parade is not representative of the Irish pop- ulation of the city. Members of the Irish Republican Labor Alliance will also absent themselves. ‘ e ‘police say they are preparin for the largest St Patricks. day krowd in years, . 4 | competitive contract with the United ! were entered into covering oil lands i {s declared to be a continuing damage | Guarantees Against Loss in Fin- ! sustain by reason of continuing Work |was announced by Mr. Doheny last this corporation to “make a bid not in | competition with any other, but as| the basis of a special, secret and non- States.” Declares Leanes Veid. TUnder this arrangement, it is arged, leasing and other agreements rich in oil and gas in naval reserves No. 1 and No. 2 secretly and privately Without competitive bidding. The agreements, it is charged, were “obtained by bribery, the result of sald unlawful conspiracy. were and are a fraud upon the United States, are illegal, null and void, and of no force or validity, and ahc_wuld be de- {vered up to the United States to be cancelled.” y The Pan-American Petroleum and ‘Transport Corporation is said to have proceeded with the acquirement of A1l the royalty ofl due the United States, while the subsidiary is said to have continued drilling wells and ex- tracting gas and oil from the leased reserve area. The removal of the oil the United States. o the arrangements, the bill asserts | that the “transactions under said agreements and said leases, and the Fiiting themselves, form.but a single | transaction, and are so inextricably | bound together that the plaintiff (the Thited States) cannot obtain full re- lief except by the joinder of both corporate defendants, who are, in fact and law, but one defendant. DOHENY OFFER ACCEPTED. ishing Hawaiian Project Given. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 17— Directors of the Pan-American Pe- troleum and Transport Company, at a meeting here Saturday, voted to ac- cept the offer of Edward L. Doheny, chairman of the board, to guarantee the company against any loss it_may the naval fuel ofl station at Pear! Harbor, Territory of Hawail, it ht. P ccepting the offer of Mr. Do- heny, members of the board express- ed their “appreciation and admiration of his patriotism in giving the guar- antee * *°* and thus assuring the Completion of a project so essential | to the naval defense of the Pacific| coast, the Panama canal and this| country’s island possessions. | QUAKE SENDS JAPANESE SCURRYING FROM HOMES | No Serious Damage Reported in Northern Part of Country at Fukushima. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, March 17.—A pronounced earthquake that ~sent inhabitants scurrying from houses was felt to- day in the town of Fukushima in Northern Japan. No serious damage ‘was reported. The seismograph at Osaka Univer- sity earler registered a severe earth- quake believed to have been central in the Kurile islands. The shocks last- ©d ninety minutes, {engineers and his long residence in Lansing H. Beach, chief of the Corps | of Engineers, U. S. A, and at one time Engineer Commissioner of the District, also has been suggested to the President. 1t was pointed out by those urging Gen. Beach's appointment that be- cause of his experience as chief of this city, he is especially well quali- fied to serve as District Commissioner. Gen. Beach goes on the retired list of the Army this Summer. The President has received also the name of Maj. Gen. William M. Wright, U. S. Army, retired, former chief of su plies of the Army, who is making his permanent home in the Capital. COUPLE SHOT EAD. Pistol on Bed of Man Said to Have Been Despondent. AANDERSON, S. C. March 17.—Mr. | and Mrs. G. J. Bee were found dead in | their room at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. McClure, their daughter, here last night, after two pistol shots had caused other members of the family to rush to the room. A pistol was found near the bodies. Mr. Bee is said to have been despond- ent since the failure, about a month ago, of a local printing_company, of ‘which he was foreman. He was sixty- two years old and his wife sixty. PAYMASTER FOUND DEAD. Army Officials Believe Capt. Deem- ing Shot Self. BOSTON, March 17.—Capt. John J. Deeming of the United States Army, Quartermaster Corps, was found shot to death yesterday in his office at the Army base in South Boston. Large sums of_money were known to have been in his custody there. During the war Capt. Deeming had charge of the |nld':,§ of vessels for overseas at the Hol en, N. J., pier. His wife and children are in California. Army officials belleve he committed suicide. { i | | history that the chief executive has faced charges of misconduct while in office. The indictment is the first Gf fifteen returned by the grand jury which in- vestigated the governor's variou: financial transactions following the revelation several months ago that he was unable to meet immediately all of his obligations. Attorneys for the governor have indicated they will question closely the prospective jurors because of the Widc_publicity that has been given the gorvernor's affairs. HIGH BREAD PRICE DUE TO COST OF BAKING Bakers’ Margins Vary From 4 to 6 Cents Per Loaf, Survey Indicates. Bakers receive a larger part of the retail price of bread than any other agency in its manufacture and dis- tribution, the Department of Agricul- ture announced today after a survey covering seven of the larger cities of the country. The bakers’ margin over cost of flour ranged from 4 cents on an S- cent loaf in New Orleans to 6 cents on a 10-cent ‘loaf in Chicago. The pro- ducer received for the flour content of his wheat approximately 1% cents of the retail price and from 6 to 7% cents went to pay transportation costs, elevator handling, flour milling, baking and retailing. “Lower bread prices deneu more efficient milling, baking an distribution methods; higher yields per barrel of’ flour, and large volume of business by individual bakers,” the department’s experts concluded. “By such efficiencies it may be pos- ible to reduce the baker's cost and to some extent his profits per unit of output.” , Washington was not among ‘the cities embraced in the survey. d upon Bergdoll Return Believed Near; Deportation From Germany Rumered {May Come Back Voluntarily in Hope of Getting Fortune Now Held by Government—Pres- ence Irritates Eberbach Officials. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 17.—Rumors are circulating that Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the Amerjcan draft evader, is about to return to the United Statea. It has been known for a long time that the German government and the Baden government are tired of the jrritations which have grown out of the presence of Bergdoll and his chauffeur and aide, Eugene (Tke) ke . ASbocher, 10 the Nepkar yallel. - Bergdoll could not be found today in the t of Eberbach, whers he has lived (for several years, but at his hotel it was sald that he expected to be back /tonight. In both Eberbach and Mo , the county seat, where the ru; doll is t to leave Germany. thers s much speculation as to whether he deported as an undesirable ave voluntarily for America to face {the charges against him in of recovering his fortune, Bheld by the United Stal 2 el " Sern: [&eubner and Elmer Pumphery, hope for the success of their visit to America. Injection into the visit by Ludwig Nissen, spokesman for the plavers, of what White House officials described as “political discussions” was follow- ed by the cutting short of other ad- | dresses. The President's letter was com- municated to Mr. Lang through the German embassy today reports from Baltimore that veyed to the German ambassador by newspapermen, Has Not Received Word. It was stated that he had not yet received any communication from the players and could not state in ad- vance what action he might take should the situation be brought to his attention officially. Thus far, it was stated, the embassy as regarded the affair as a purely personal matter not affecting the German government. The only knowl- edge it has of the action of Mr. Nissen, a spokesman said, had been gleaned from newspapers. If press Teports are true, the spokesman thought the German ambassador will that he cannot interest himself appealing to the White House their behalf. in in - 2 NAVY FLYERS DIE IN PLANE COLLISION I Lieuts. Olin R. Miner and Charles D. Porter, Killed Near Pensacola. | By the Associated Press. PENSACOLA, Fla, March 17— Lieuts. Olin R. Miner and Charles D. Porter, occupants of the same ma- chine, were instantly killed when | their’ plane collided with another iplane and fell near Corry Landin dl"‘leld. north of here, at 9 o'clock tos ‘ ¥ iieuts. Henry M. Mullinix and T. G. Fisher, occupants of the second plane, were injured but are not believed to | be in aserious condition. Corry Field has been in use by ayiators of the Pensacola Naval Air 8 lon, to which al ‘our of tl Were attached. ol men THREE ARE UP FOR TRIAL ON GAMBLING CHARGES By & Staff Correspondent. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., March 17. —James A. La Fontaine, Phillip J. alleg- ed proprietors of gambling houses in Maryland near the District line, ap- peared today at the courthouse here for trial on a warrant charging them with operation of gaming tables in violation of state laws. The case came of the up for_trial before Justice Prior to the White House action ! Anton Lang would appeal to the Ger- ' man embassy to intervene in behalf | of the Oberammergau players were oon- | explain to the Oberammergau players | v placed in harmonious operation i hin ‘of fourteen chiefs of ths bureau, who had been ousted in | Mareh, 1922, with former Director Wilmeth, had restored much of the morale of the bureau, and Maj. Kirby had succeeded admirably in the opin- ! jon of Treasury officials, in improving conditions there in general. Expects Smoothe Operation. It was expected, however, that sev- eral more weeks, and perhaps montps. might be required to place it in the condition in which the Treasury hopes to turn it over to a new direc- | tor. The big plant was in full operation today under the active control of Assistant Director Twyman, and | Superintendent of Work John J. Dev- iny. Mr. Twyman went in ssistant | director under Maj. Kirby and has thorough understanding of the poli- | cies intended to be carried out. | “Str. Deviny. one of the restored chiefs, Is intimately acquainted, | through long experience, with the entire technical procedure of the bu- |reau. So it was anticipated by those | who know conditions at the plant that, even should Maj. Kirby be pre vented from return to the burea it would continue to operate ¢ | fectivel " In view of the statements of Sec retary Weeks today, however. it was ! understood Maj. Kirby might be al- | jowed to advise the Treasury in tho {operation of the bureau. = Conse- Quently the department may be able | to continue to run things as at pres- {ent until a permanent director can | e obtained. There was no indica- | tion today as to who might be chosen {for that post. Won't Affect D. C. Officers. “ The four officers of the Enginec Corps of the Army detailed as offi- cials of the District government, will { not be affected by the ruling of Con- { troller General McCaxl, in the opinion | of local authorities. ! Maj. Danlel J. Donovan, auditor, | pointed out today that Congress has | made_specific_provision in the law | establishing the local form of gov | ernment for the assignment of mem | bers of the Kngineer Corps of the |Army to direct the engineering branches of the District government. Mr. McCarl's ruling, it was sald, intended to apply to cases through- out the federal government whers Congress has not provided for the detalling of Army men. The law creating the District gov- ernment _provides that the President of the United States shall detail an Engineer Corps man of the rank of captain or higher to be Engineer Commissioner of the city. That po- sition is now held by Maj. J. Franklin Bell. It was further provided in a sub- Isequent enactment that three addi- tional Engineer Corps men could be detailed to the District building as assistants to the Engineer Commis- sioner. Those positions are now held by Maj Raymond Whesler, Mal W . Holcombe and Capt. John E. Wood i Condemned Man Escapes. ATLANTA, March 17.—J. B. Sattert fleld, under sentence to be hanged fer the murder of his brother-in-law. R. H. Hart, escaped last night from the Fulton county jail, where he had boen confided,