Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Showers this afternoon and tonight; and much tomorrow fair south, shifting to ed at 2 p.m. today 2:30 p.m. yesterday; est gales; perature for twenty-four hours end- Highest, lowest, 12:30 am. today. Fuil report on page 2. colde; tem- 72, at 54, at Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 13 No. 29,187, Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. €. SENATORS EXAMINE SCAIFE ONALLEGED MITSUIFRM DEAL Former Justice Agent Says He Was Blocked by Special Aide to Daugherty. SAYS AIRCRAFT DEALERS WERE GERMAN AGENTS Managed Affairs With Government in Interests of Enemy, He Claims. Taking only a passing notice of Harry M. Daugherty’s disappearance from public life,'the Senate’s Daugh- erty investigating committee today tried to piece out details of one §100,000 deal and heard hints of another. By H. L. Scaife, a former Depart- ment of Justice agent, the committee Wwas told that investigation into the Mitsui aircraft case, in connection With which Gaston B. Means has tes- tified, Jess Smith received $100,000, was blocked by A. F. Meyers, a spe- cial assistant to the Attorney Gen- eral, after it had beem discovered that the company owed the govern- ment many millions. Scaife said he had been told by Guy D. Goff, then assistant attorney general, that Meyers received his ap- pointment through former Attorney General George B. Wickersham, whose law firm, he said, was retained by the Mitsui Company. The refere to the second $100,- 000 transaction were made by Nicho- las Cimino, a New York restaurant man, who festificd that he had over- heard a conversation in a hotel hers about a “whisky deal in which Mor- timer got $100,000 from a party in Pittsburgh.” He knew none of the details, and when committee mem- bers put him through a course of questioning “to test his memory” he id he ‘couldn’t even remember Whether he had been prosecuted in New York for a liquor law violation. Plan Executive Session. Instead of examining confidential files of the Justice Depaftment in public, as orig: ally planned, the committee decided to consider them in executive session. The files In question related to al- !l‘x:m'vz\rtl\'\lies in this country ann of Mexican revolutions In alifornia and*had figured in r_hc correspondence between President Coolidge and n the latter's retirement. W. J. Burns, chief of the Justice Department's bu- Teau of investigation, had been sum- moned to lay the files before the com- mittee, but instead of questioning him the committee put on the stand Nich- olas Cimino of New York, who testi- fred regarding Mr. Daugherty's rela- tions with Howard Manington and aid he had met Will A. Orr of ork at “the green house on K Manington lived at the sgreen house” he sald. He told of " “interceding”’ with Manington to ob- tain an appointment as commissioner of immigration for Philip Giordiano, also of New York, and of being taken to see Daugherty. Questioned by Brookhart. Chairman Brookhart, questioning the witness in the absence of the com- mittee prosecutor, Senator Wheeler of Montana, who was kept at home by iliness, asked if Manington had asked for money. “Nothing was ever sald about Cimino_replied. He had acted on behalf of Gior- diano as a candidate, both for immi- gration commissioner at New York and for commissioner general of im- migration, the witness said. Cimino ' also sought to procure through Daugherty stenographic con- tracts In the New York federal courts, e said, for two stenographers n. “Price” and “Moore.” L “They paid me money from time to time,” Cimino said of Price and Moore. “It ran from $1,000 to $1,500." He sald that he got some of the stenographic contracts. Bootlegging Conspiracy. Chairman Brookhart took up the New York bootlegging conspiracy. The witness sald he had complained to Manington because “everybody seemed to be getting something out of it,” and Manington told him “to go over to New York and see what I could do.” He then went to see Orr who told him “there was nothe ing doing.” Cimino also sought to get some of his friends appointed prohibition agents. “Now you met Orr and Coroni dur- ing their trial and Orr told you every- thing was fixed?” Chairman Brook- hart asked, referring to prosecu- tions on tho liquor permit transac- tions. Overheard Conversation. “No, he told me it would be all right,” Cimino said. Asked if he remembered a whisky deal where Mortimer got $100,000 the witness repljed: “I overheard a conversation where one of the fellows said Mortimer got $100,000 from a party in Pittsbure A man named “Grant” was men- tioned, Clmino went on, as having been “double crossed” by Mortimer in the $100,000 deal. The money was to be paid by a ‘certain party in Pittsburgh,” he said. . Cimino then told also of having heard of a “$50,000 deal” in paroles from a federal penitentiary, but could give no details. Questioned on Contracts. Reverting to the stenographic con- tracts, Senator Ashurst, democrat, Arizona, asked whether Price and Moore were not to make notes of grand jury proceedings and “change the notes of the proceedings when rich people were examined.” “No, sir,” Cimino exploded. “There ‘was no such understanding.” None of the money he got from “Price” was passed on to ton on,Orr, the witmess said. He in- sisted ' he 'got the money to cover “expenses” and had sought to inter- 9 with Daugherty and_ other ‘Washington officials only in his ca- pacity as a party “ward captain” in New York. That, he said, was legit- jmate political work. Former Senator Chamberlain, Mr. (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) !colleagues of the broad outlines along Mr. Daugherty, resulting | OF MANY GRAFT @h WASHINGTON, VANDERLIP DETECTIVES ON TRAIL CHARGES HERE Retired Banker Says Name of Next Cabinet Officer to Resign Will Cause Shock—Tells of Investigations of Bureaus. By the Associnted Press NEW YORK, March 29.—Frank A. Vanderlip, retired banker, asked whether he thought that any other cabinet members should go, said in a statement published today: That will develop later. If I sald ‘ves' you would want to know the name, and if I told you that it would shock you."” Mr. Vanderlip's citizens' research bureau now is inve:tigating new charges against the internal revenue bureau, the War Department, the Veterans' Bureau and the alien prop- erty custodian, he says. He asked why no one had been indicted as a result of recent dis- osures in Washington POINCARE POLICIES 10 BE CONTINUED New Ministry to Follow Along Lines Laid Down by Predecessor. By the Associated Press. PARIS, March 29.—The policies of the former Poincare cabinet, both foreign and domestic, will be contin- ued by the new ministry, it was de- clared by leading members of the cabinet after its first formal confer- ence with the premier this morning. M. Poincare officially presented all the members of his new cabinet to President Millerand at the palace of the Elysee this noon. The president warmly congratulated the premier on having succeeded in grouping about him “the most brilliant personalities composing his cabinet.” He added that the new government could be assured of the president's full collab- oration on all occasions in conform- ity with the nation's best interests for the settlement of the difficult problems of the present situation. Before calling on President Mille- rand the cabinet held its first official council. The premier informed his which he intends drawing up the ministerial declaration to be read in the parliament at 10 o'clock Monday morning. All the ministers appeared to be lfl’ high spirits. Louis Lousheur, minister of commerce, said: “My immediate efforts will be di- rected toward bringing down the cost | of living.” Justin de Selves, minister of the in- terior, was spokesman as to the gen- eral course the cabinet would take. “The unanimous sentiment of the new government is to continue the policy of Premier Poincare,” he said. “That goes for internal affairs, as well as foreign policy,” put in Minister of War Maginot. M. Francois-Marsal, the minister of finances, declared the affairs of his| ministry would be directed along lines of economy. “No expenditures will be made unless they are covered by equivalent receipts,” he said. 0L PROBE GOES OVER T TUESDAY William Boyce Thompson Then to Be Questioned on 1920 G. 0. P. Finances. The Senate ofl committee was in recess today until Tuesday, when it plans to question William Boyce Thompson, former chairman of the' finance committee of the republican | national committee, about the liqui- dation of the republican deficit in- curred in the 1920 campaign. Mr. | Thompson was to have been examined yesierday, but was not called. . L. Kistler of Tulsa, Okla., pres- ident of the Producers and Refiners’ Oil Company, was subpoenaed yester- day, and Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, announced that he planned to call three or four more Witnesses to substantiate the sensational con- vention “oil deal” story told by Al Jennings, once famous train_robber and friend of the late Jake Hamon. TOLL OF LANDSLIDE LIGHTER THAN REPORTED Blocking of Roads and Rail Lines Prevents King and Queen Reach- ing Stricken Interior. By the Assoclated Press. SALERNO, Italy, March 29.—Late returns show the actual loss of life from the landslide in the Amalfi dis- trict to be less than was at first cal- culated. The blocking of roads and rail lines and the disturbance of the sea has made it impossible for the king and the Duchess of Aosta to reach the out- of-the-way villages, which suffered the most, and both have returned to Rome after insuring copious and con- tinuous relief. Four ships have arrived at Amalfi with clothing, mattresses, milk, bread and preserved meat. _— GET $24,000 PAY ROLL. Bandit Trio Hold Up Employes of Tampa Cigar Company. TAMPA, Fla, March 29.—Three armed men held up a dozen employes of the Hav-a-Tampa Cigar Company in the factory office here today and escaped with the weekly pay roll of $24,000. —g e WARS ON ‘MASHERS’ HERE Commissioner Oyster today in- structed Maj. Sullivan to send a de- tail of policemen and policewomen in plain clothes to break up “mash- ing” on F street. . The Commissioner said he was prompted to issue the order follow- ing receipt of complaints from par- ents who said their daughters had been accosted while walking on that thoroughfare. “The peron to ask why Fall 18 not indicted s the President of the United States,” he continued. “This country is still far from understanding the Washington situa- tion. The country, instead of belng in a state of hysteria, is in a coma. Newspapers have printed an endless amount of evidence—so much that few could read it, but they printed little real interpretation Mr. Vanderlip said that he and mombers of his bureau had been | shadowed by detectives since they had been helping the Wheeler com- mittee in_its investigation of At- torney General Daugherty. The bureau has a staff of about forty men including detectives, five lawyers and pald newspaper men, 125 SAVEDINBLAST BY MINE OFFICIAL West Virginia Explosion Kills 26 as Warning Is Flash- ed by Superintendent. By the Assoclated Press. BLUEFIELD, W. Va, March 29.— The presence of mind of T. J. Dawson, who three weeks ago became super- intendent of the Yukon-Pocahontas Coal Company at Yukon, W. Va., to- day Is credited with saving the lives of 125 miners in No. 1 mine yester- day, when an explosion claimed a toll of twenty-six dead in No. 2 mine. Only six of the men in No. 2 mine es- caped. When the blast came Supt. Dawson Was near the entry leading between the two mines. Realizing what had happened, he rushed into No. 1 warn the men there. Some of these workers were injured when they were knocked down by the force of the ex- | plosion. . Eighteen killed in 1919. All the bodies of the victims were recovered last night from the mine, which was the scene of a similar dis- aster in 1919, when eighteen lives were snuffed out. Rescue work was at first done by volunteer teams from nearby mines, and later was in charge of the crew of the United States bu- reau of mines' rescue car from Ne- mours. No plans for an investigation have {yet been announced. Offcials of the | company and mine inspectors who have been in the mine since the blast beileve the explosion was caused by ; the head lamps of three miners who took a short-cut through an aban- doned working to their places of work. THREE MEN ENTOMBED. CLARKSBURG, W. Va., March 29.— Three men are known to have been en- tombed today when an explosion of gas wrecked a section of Penshaw mine, No. 1, on Bigamon creek, near Shinnston, W. Va; other miners may have been trapped 'in the workings, It was said. BALDWIN ASKS POST VACATED BY MILLER Deputy Insurance Superintendent ‘Would Succeed Ousted Dis- trict Official. Thomas M. Baldwin, jr., deputy su- perintendent of insurance of the Dis- trict, today applied for appointment as superintendent to succeed Burt A. Miller, who was asked to resign yes- terday following the publication of the charges made against him by Rep- resentative Blanton. Mr. Baldwin tells Commissioner Ru- dolph in a letter that he belleves he can “step right into the breach and put this department where it ought to be.” He states that if given a trial, if he fails to put the insurance de- partment where it ought to be, he wil! promptly resign. Commissioner Rudolph indicated this morning that it would be several days before the vacancy is filled. He made it plain that he wants to con- sider carefully applications received. In submitting his resignation yes- terday, Mr. Miller requested thirty days ‘leave, but it was not granted. Deptuy Superintendent Baldwin is acting head of the insurance depart- ment today. Although the request for Mr. Mil- ler's resignation wes made by Com- ! missioner Rudolph yesterday on the heels of publication of Mr. Blanton’ charges against the superintendent, the Commicsioner has not made any statements with regard to the re- quested resignation. Greek Orthodox Bishop Wants to Be an American Renouncing his allegiance to Turkey and Greece, Vassilios Com- vopoulos, Metropolitan of the Greek Orthodox church, has ap- plied to the District Supreme Court to be made an American citizen. He holds the rank of archbishop and has been designated by the patriarch of Constantinople to establish the seat of his see at the National Capital. As his future ac- tivities will be in this country, the archbishop decided he could be- come best affiliated with the American life and thought by tak- ing out naturalization papers. The archbishop was born in Si- nope, Turkey, of Greek parent: March 12, 1880, and ¢ame to Amer! ca last September. He is unmar- riad and resides at 3935 15th street e Bemiotrios Papa-s th ev. Demetrios tam: : thirty-two years old, & priest of the Greek Church, accompanied the archbishop, and, like him, made application for citizenship. He gave his birthplace as Larisa, Greece, and said he came to thi country August 10, 1910. He is married and resides at 3616 1lth street northwest. to | ¢ Foen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Star. D. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1924 -THIRTY-TWO PAGES. RIGOROUS VICE WAR POLICE REPLY TO STINGING CRITICISM Sullivan, Roused by Charge Capital “Wettest City,” Plans Thorough Clean-Up. | EVIDENCE IS COLLECTED PREPARATORY TO DRIVE Superintendent Returns From Con- ference With Butler in Philadelphia. Stung by eriticisms that Washington is the wettest city in the United States, Maj. Daniel Sullivan, head of the metro- politan police department, has issued orders for the immediate inauguration of a campaign to rid the National Capital forthwith of bootleggers and every form of commercial vice. Announcement of the war was made by the police superintendent_today, fol- lowing his return from a second visit to Philadelphia, where he was in con- ference with Brig. Gen. Smedley D. But- ler, the Quaker city's fighting director 1ot public safety, who is in the midst of a similar campalgn himseif. Maj. Sullivan has been in constant |touch” with Lieut. O.'T. Davis, col mander of the vice squad, and his con- sulting staff aince his return from Phila- delphia. As a result similar squads are xpected to be organized in every pre- nct to co-operate with the flying squadron in its drive upon vice and crime. To Give No Quarter. “There will be no quarter,” Maj. |Sullivan declared. “Let the ax fall where it will, this city is to be swept {clean—completely ridded of every vice we are accused of harboring by per- sons from other parts of the country. Rum running, drinking and gambling are to be the first to go. { for the first time in years. The citi- | zens of Washington trust the police department, I am sure. I intend to i vindicate that trust Congress and the people have imposed in me by show- ing them that if there is any vice rampant here its doom is sealed. We | | intend to clean house thoroughly this time.” | "Maj. Sullivan seemed to display some of the devil dog “pep” that has made Gen. Butler the terror of un- | scrupylous politicians and criminals u Phfladelphia. When his attention was called to the fact that it has become a common - practice for in- toxicating liguor to flow freely at public banquets, reminiscent of the ddys when each course was punctu- ated by a flowing draught, the police director asserted with emphasis that no privileges will be granted. Never Asked for Protection. “I have never had a request for protection,” he declared. “But if | some of our more prominent citizens fall into the net that is already | spread, they must suffer the conse. | quences. I have been in conference | with the members of my vice squad |for some days. They have been busy collecting evidence. We are ready |and when the signal is given we shall (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) 2TRAINS SOLATED Bridges . Washed Away, Banks Overflowed—Water Rushing Toward Capital. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md, March 29.— General warning for all inhabitants along the Potomac river from Cum- berland to Washington to move to high ground was issued this noon with the river and its tributaries reaching flood stage and in many lo- calities already overflowing the banks. | Both passenger and freight traffic on | the Western Maryland is at a complete standstill. Four railway bridges have been reported as washed away. Two passenger trains are marooned by six feet of water near Keyser, W. Va. A special train carrying eeveral hundred Shriners to the ceremonial in Baltimore . tonight has not been heard from. The :train left Cumberland early this morn- |ing, via Hagerstown, but up to noon nothing pould be learned of its location because of the crippled condition of the wires. Many of the streets of Cumberland already are under water. The princi- pal thoroughfare, Mechanics street, is flooded with three feet of water. The entire town of Piedmont, W. Va., is inundated with four feet of water with -the river still rising. The in- ! creasing wall of water is rushing on to Willlamsport, Md., where the river is rising at the rate of thirty inches an hour. According to estimates, the beginning o fthe flood stage should reach Washington about 7 o'clock to- night. Melting snow and the heavy rain of last night are rapidly contributing to the flowing of all streams. The downpour still is continuing, with no abatement in sight, according to the weather bureau, Prediction is made that the flood will be the worst the Potomac river region has experienced since 1889, when unestimable damage was done and the C. & O. canal banks were washed away for miles. WARNING IS ISSUED. Weather Bureau Says Serious Flood warnings for the upper Po- tomac river regions and southwest storm warnings for the Atlantic sea- board from Jacksonville, Fla., to New York city were ordered displayed by the weather bureau today. Last night's heavy rains and the first signs of a spring thaw in the snow-bound mountain _regions are "(Continued on Page 2, Column &) “Congress has given me a full force | INPOTOMAG FLOOD SERATORSFAVE HOLSEBONUS B G. 0. P. Members Back 20- Year Insurance Plan—Re- port Sought Next Week. The bonus and tax bills both came under the eves of the Senate finance | committee today Wwith members | pressing consideration of each in the | hope of reporting then to the Senate next week. Army and Navy officers were called upon first for data which is to be used as the basis of the committee's own estimate of the probable cost of the soldier bonus bill passed by the House. Chairman Smoot has announced that night sessions will be renewed next week. Sentiment, he says, is fairly well crystallized among re- publicans of the committee in favor of the bonus bill passed by the House, providing for paid-up twenty-year | endowment life insurance policles and | cash payments to vetérans not en- titled to more than $50 in adjusted ervice credit, while the democrats are almost solidly for a full cash- ayment option. P ihe estate, Eift and excise tax schedules are practically the only re- maining sections of the revenue bill to be considered by the committee after disposal of the corporation tax. Proposals to change the form of taxing corporations temporarily blocked progress in the finance committee vesterday in its consideration of the revenue bill Neither the bill passed by the House nor the Mellon tax revision plan proposes any change in the corpora- tion tax. The section was finally passed over by the committee, however, and some of the technical provisions of —the corporation tax system agreed to. The estate and gift taxes and the miscellaneous and excise schedules will be taken up in rapid order now, after which, Chairman Smoot said, fhe bill would be reported im- mediately. Such action could be cb- tained by next week, he thought. Senator Reed, republican. Pennsyl- vania, suggested that the corporation tax of 1234 per cent be increased to 14 per cent and the special tax on capital stocks of $1 for each $1,000 worth of stock of a_corporation be eliminated. Senator Jones, democrat, New Mexico, told the committee he would offer some form of graduated tax in_place of the flat corporation Jevy. He did not mention the rates he would propose, however. The committee’ did agree to the Treasury draft of the bill in regard to eliminating a provision placed in the law in 1921 which changed the basis of fixing valuations of certain stocks. This provision affected prin- cipally lumber companies. TAX SALE DEED HELD BAR TO REDEMPTION Owner Must Deal With Buyer After Issue of Paper, Ru- dolph Raules. Senate Hereafter a pfoperty owner whose real estate has been sold for taxes will not be permitted to redeem it at the District building after the tax- sale buyer has applied to the Com- missioners for a deed. Commissioner Rudolph made this announcement today, following a public hearing vesterday, at which a number of lawyers contended that under the law the Commissioners were bound to allow the real owner to redeerh at any time before a deed is actually delivered. The law provides that the tax-sale buyer must wait two years from the date of the sale before applying for a deed, and Quring that time the real owner may redeem by paying the tax due plus 12 per cent a year penalty. The Commissioners feel that if at the expiration of the two years the tax-sale buyer applies immediately for a deed the District must issue it promptly. After a tax deed has been issued the real owner may still redeem, but, in addition to the penalty, he may then be required to pay the tax-sale buyer a bonus. These deeds, it is said, constitute a cloud on the title to the property and must be paid off before the original owner can make any disposition of the land or build- AS THE MARCH HUNTING ENDS. BERGDOLL POSTPONES RETURN FROM GERMANY Unofficial Proposals Fail to Im- press Him as Genuine, Draft Dodger Says. By the Associated Press. EBERBACH, Germany, March 29.— Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the Amer- draft evader, whose departure from his hotel here early in the week responsible reports that he » the U 1 tod: > not 1 any to return to the United Bergdoll had been on_a motor trip to the Black forest. He said that though he was prepared to return er certain s made to him failed to im- He and his ican preparations tates, with too seve 2 PIGGLY WIGGLY SUSPECTS CAUGHT Blundon and Reidy Taken Without Fight in New York Hotel. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, March 29.—FEarl Blun- |don and Dennis Reidy, both of Wash- ington, alleged to be members of the Piggly Wiggly hold-up gang, which es- caped with $14,000 last Monday morn- ing, were arrested as they entered their room on the seventeenth floor of the Hotel McAlpin early this morning. Their arrests complete three apprehensions in the hold-up. A fourth is still at iarge. Blundon was strolling into his room about 2 o'clock this morning when Sergeants Kenny and Lowenthal and House Operative Dennison descended on him. He put up no fight. Reidy was walking in at 6 o'clock when he also was taken into custody. Derectives Find $700. In their possession detectives found approximately $700, but through tele- phone “tracers” they discovered that they had been in touch with a New York bank during the last few day and an investigation of their account with the Bank is now under way. Both used aliases. It is believed that approximately $4,000 is in the bank. Blundon and Reldy, who are still in the early twenties, were too surprised, it is stated, to put up any opposition, but a bigger surprise awaited the New York detectives when they found no pistols or dangerous weapons in their possession. Held as Fugltives. They were taken to the West 30th street station and held for a hear- ing later this morning as fugitives from justice in the Jefferson Market court. It was learned by detectives that they have been in New York since Tuesday, going to Newark, N. J. in an automobile and then to New York by train. Neither would make any statement to New York police when auestioned regarding the Piggly Wiggly hold-up. Desperate Man at Large, Much secrecy was thrown about the capture in the hope that quietude might aid in effecting the capture of Joseph KFrank Nalley, represented as the only desperate man implicated. Blundon_ is twenty-eight vears of age, and has a polico record, being the'accredited ringleader of the jail delivery recently at the Arlington courthouse jail when eleven inmates escaped. Reldy is twenty-one, and has no police record. It is believed that this alleged hold-up is hismaiden venture with persons of known crim- { inal records. Nalley is well known to police. Tracers to principal cities have been sent out in the hope of his appre hension. VOTES AIR MAIL FUNDS. House Agrees on $1,500,000 Ap- propriation. The House today agreed to appro- priate $1,500,000 for operation of the New York-San Francisco zir mail service during the fiscal year beginning July 1. It also approved an additional ap- propriation of $1,250,000 for operation of the air malil service by night flying. The Star’s every city bl as fast as th Yesterday’s “From Press to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers lock and the regular edi- tion is deliv=red to Washington homes e papers are printed. Circulation, 102,889 TWO CENTS. | NENRALBRDGE TOCOST 700 Potomac Project Estimate Is Held as Expressing View of President. When the bill authorizing the Ar- lington Memorial bridge to serve as a connecting link across the Potomao river between the Lincoln Memorial | and the Lee mansion in Arlington | national cemetery, passes Congress, it will provide for the expenditure of approximately $7,500,000. Two Provisions Made. At least this is the opinion of xho.ge; who discussed this proposed legis- lation with the President today. This | amount, it is pointed out, wiil in- ciude $5,000,000 for the bridge struc- | ture itself, and . $2,500,000 “for the | neces:ary ornamentation and the con- | {struction of the immediate approaches at either end of the bridge. 1t is understood that while the Ar-| lington Memorial bridge commission | has some fairly well determined ideas | regarding the future treatment of the main highways directly leading to the | north and south approaches to the bridge, they will be left for future| consideration. To carry out these ideas | would necessitate the outlay of an ad- | ditional sum that would make the en-| tire project cost upward of $20,000,000. 1n the interest of present day economy | and as a means to expedite somewhat | the building of the bridge itseif, au- | thorization for the latter feature of the | project will not be requested at this| time. Lord Approves Measure. The bill authorizing this bridge and providing for its plans and construc- | tion and its cost has been drawn up by Col. Clarence O. Sherrill, executive officer of the Arlington Memorial | Bridge Commission, of which the| President of the United States is| chairman. That part of the draft per- taining to the appropriation for . the bridge has been gone over carefully by Brig. Gen. Lord, director of the budget, and, except for some fea- tures. consider: unessential to the bridge proper, it has his approval. It was said at the White House fo- day that President Coolidge will call a meeting of the commission some| time next weck, at which each item in the Sherr draft will be gone over, with the view to putting the| bill in gnal shape. When the com-| mission meets, Senator Cummins of Iowa, President of the Senate, will sit with'it as a new member. He fills the vacancy created when Mr. Cool- idge became President. - RUSH TROOPS TO SCENE OF MINE HOME BLASTS Authorities Seek Dynamiters at In- | kerman, Pa., Following Fifth Outrage in Year. By the Associated Press. SCRANTON, Pa, March 29.—State troopers and county detectives rush- ed to Inkerman, Pa, looking for the persons who discharged dynamite early today under the homes of two anthractie mine workers. Two explosions, one following the other, seriously damaged the homes | of Stanley Cadiski and John Bezanus, and smashed windows in a dozen ! glmzr dwellings. No one was seriously urt. Today’s explosions at Inkerman brought the total of dynamitings in Luzerne county in the past year to, five. NI EXPECT EARLY VERDICT IN LUDENDQRFF TRIAL By the Associated Press. { BERLIN, March 29.—According to advices from Munich, Dr. von Kahr, Gen. von Lossow and Gen. Seissler, i who ocontended they were coerced ;into joining the Ludendorff-Hitler putsch of last November, have gone to Italy “on a fortnight's leave of absence.” [ The verdict in the trial of Gen.| ! Ludendorfr, Hitler and their co-de- ) fendants s expected to be rendered i soon by the Munich court. FOUR TRAINMEN KILLED. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, Ohlo, March 29.—Four Baltimore and Ohio trainmen were ireported to have been killed when a ‘ freight train on the Shawnee division ywent through a bridge south -of here jthis morning. High water was said to have caused the trestle to give { ment. | assailed for “delay and Incation” in lof the { Attorney DRIVE T0 COMPEL MELLONTORETIRE STARTSIN SENATE Resolution Questions Legal¢ ity of Position in View of Secretary’s Business. OTHER CABINET MEMBERS MARKED FOR ATTACKS Hoover and Wallace Mentioned as Next on List for Investigation. A drive to force the retirement of another member of President Cool- idge's cabinet, Secretary Mellon, is now getting under way in the Sen- ate. This attack on Secretary Mellon is described by some of the organiza- tion republicans and others in the cloakrooms as merely one step in well defined plans attributed to demo- crats and radical republicans for disintegrating the cabinet one mem- ber at a time. Secretary Denby and Attorney General Daugherty have left the cabinet within a few weeks as an outgrowth of sensational investi- gations, and the gossip has it that Secretaries Wallace and Hoover are next in line after Melion for the same kind of treatment. Administration leaders, however, are confident the drive against Presi- dent Coolidge’s cabinet will meet with failure in its attack on Secretary Mellon. _ Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, repub- lican leader of the Senate, who called at the Teasury today, Scouted the idea that the opposition would be able to oust Mellon. “There is not a stronger man In the country today than Mr. Mellon," declared the senator. Asked if he thought there was any possibility that the campaign admit- tedly being waged to uncover corrup- tion in the administration, would also retire Mr. Mellon, Senator Lodge re- plied emphatically in the negative. Secretary Mellon was out of the city today. He has repeatedly re- vealed, however, that he is not wor- ried over the attacks directed against him from the Capitol. He recently replied sharply to the charge that he had influenced the bureau of internal revenue to make refunds of taxes to companies in which he is interested, and declared that the Treasury De- partment was being operated on the basis of efficiency only. He has reg- ered no objection to any proposed investigation of his conduct of the department, but has repeatedly re- fused to all access to the tax returns in files of the internal revenue bu- rean. Certaln returns have been made available to Congress throu; executive order e Takes Comerete Form. The Mellon attack, which has been developing for several days, reached concrete form during general discus- sion in the Senate yesterday of Mr. Daugherty’s retirement, in which President Coolidge also came in for a share of the uncomplimentary com- The executive also, was a statement {ssued by Chairman Hull of the democratic national com- mittee, who found the Daugherty resignation “a matter for public gratification.” Senator McKellar, democrat, Ten- nessee, introduced a resolution for in- vestigation of the legal qualifications of the sury head, but debate on the proposal was delayed when Sen- ator Wadsworth, republican, New York, objected to immediate consid- eration and forced it over under the rules until Monday, since the cham- ber is in recess today. Asks Connections Probed. The resolution, which cites evidence relating to “Mellon companies” ad- duced by the committee investigat- ing the internal revenue bureau, calls for an inquiry to determine whether the Secretary “is directly or indirectly concerned in carrying on the business of trade or commerc whether he owns any sea vessel “in whole or in part,” and whether he is holding office in violation of statutes cited, which prohibit maintenance of commercial connections by the gov- fiscal agents. ation as to Mr. Daugherty's successor has simmered down to Chief Justice Arthur P. Rugg of the Massa- chusetts supreme judicial court, Har- lan F. Stone, dean of the Columbia University School of Law; Gov. Groes- beck of Michigan, Willlam S. Kenyon, former senator from lowa and now judge of the federal circuit court of appeals for the eighth district, who was offered the naval secretaryship; and Secretary Hughes of the State Department. Beck to Hold Post. The President is known to be seeking for the post a man possessing adminis- trative capacity as well as knowledge of law, and until his choice is made and confirmed by the Senate, James M. Beck, the solicitor general, will act as Attorney General. Several other resignations in the De- partment of Justice have been pre- dicted in some quarters, but officials mentioned, including W. J. Burns, chief bureau of investigation, and Augustus T. Seymour, assistant to the Seneral, said last night they did not tend to follow Mr. Daugh- erty unless the President or the new Atforney General should desire their re- tirement. Text of Resolution. The McKellar resolution, relating to Secretary Mellon, follows: ““Whereas, section 243 of the Revised Statutes of the United States provides |as follows: “ “No person appointed to the offics of Secretary of the Treasury, or first con- troller, or first auditor, or treasurer, or register shall, directly o indiectly, be concerned or interested in carrying on the business of trade or commerce, o |be owner in whole or in part of any sea vessel, or purchase by himself, or another in trust for him, any public lands or other public property, or be concerned in the purchase or disposal of any public property, or be concerned in the purchase or disposal of any pub- lic securities of any state or of the United States, or take or apply to his own use any emolument or gain for negotiating or transacting any busi- ness in the Treasury Department other than what shall be allowed by law; and every person who offends against any of the propositions of this section shall (Continued on Page 2, Column 2