Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. Fair tonight and tomorrow; colder tonight. with freesing temperature; fresh morthwest winds. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 pm. today: Highest, 76, at 3 p.m. yes- |terday; ‘lowest, 38, at 6:30 a.m. today. ¥ull report on page 7. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 28 No. 20,189, post office Wasl Entered us second-class matter hington, D. C. SIKFLODD DEATHS KNOHN AS WATERS REACH CAEST HERE One Victim Claimed by Poto- mac at Dempsey’s Boat- house on River Front. GUARDSMEN ORDERED TO MARYLAND CITIES | Wy R i Family of Five Cling to Tree for Hours Until It Topples and All Are Lost. With dogged reluctance the muddy waters of the unleashed Potomac| were slowly giving up today the story of their devastation in western | Maryland and West Virginla—a tragic| 1ale of death, destroyed farms, ruined | homes, scattered families and shat- tered fortunes. | Six persons are known to be dead, ! others are reported to have lost their Jives, hundreds are homeless and many more are shivering in water- soaked homes just released by the | flood, while a stinging northwester | is sweeplng the wake of the tor-| Tent with freezing temperatures. Guardsmen Called Out. \ Snow added to the suffering of mei survivors in the district around Cum- | herland this morning. Although lhol waters have completely subsided i * west of that city, the mercury is, falling steadily and the snowfall is| evere in the mountain regions. Na-| tion Guard companies have been ordered to active service in both Cumberland and Piedmont, whe conditions are desperate, to police the citics and prevent looving. Loot- | “ers are to be shot on sight Although, the crest of the flood was rushing scaward past Washington today, brief messages from the heart ©f the stricken districts up the Po- tomac valley brought news of whole cities still ‘isolated, completely sur- rounded Ly angry. swirling water with haif of their homes and busi- | ness houses submerged as high as the nd stories. | Washington escaped little property | damage along the Potomac river, but the waves claimed a human life as he toll h J. Bowden Duryee of | Thrifton, Va., was thrown into th ver frorr the float at Dempsey roathouse when he attempted to stop | log from crashing into the plat- torm” shortly beforc 8 o'clock last night. His body was never seen after plunged into the waters and has not been recovered. Whole Family Drowned. i The other known fatalities oc-| curred at Kitzmiller, Md., near Cum- berland, when the family of Samuel Beeman was wiped out. Mr. Bee- man, his wife, two children, an aged father, David Beeman, were | \ trapped by the flood while fleeing | from their rapidly submerging home | to the mountains. With every means | of escape cut offf, fall five climbed a | tree and clung to its branches !arl Pounded incessantly by the ever- rising waters, the tree held firmly until about dusk Saturday evening | when it suddenly careened and a yoment later went swirling down the valley with its human cargo. The tragedy was witnessed by a score of persons marooned on nearby house tops. The bodies of the two children were recovered. They had been | washed into an eddy. No trace has Leen found of the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Beeman or David Bee- | man, however. Report Five Others Loxt. A semi-official report to police head- squarters in Cumberland today said five persons had been drowned at Piedmont, W. Va., where two bridges “vere swept away Saturday. -one of the hardest-hit cities in the “flood area. The names of the victims were not known, however, and con- firmation from Piedmont could not Dbe obtained because lines of '‘com- munication to that place are still «losed. Heroic sacrifices were made by ®©cores of men to rescue families ma- rooned on the tops of houses that were fast giving way under the nerciless pounding of the maddened waters. The family of John Devil- bliss was trapped at MeCoole, Md. and spent the night on the roof of ttheir home. As darkness fell a re- port was sent out that all had per- ished, but dawn found them still ciutching frantically to their water-| wwept perch. A group of young men manned a boat, dared the foaming flood and managed to steer their craft to safety to the fainting victims. After taking | .the family of six aboard they again | plunged into the current and managed o get into a backwash and landed without the loss of a soul. Similar «wcts of heroism were recorded | 1t was ,IN TRIAL OF W’CRAY CProsecution of Indiana Executive Places His Predecessor on Stand. . By the Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 31— James P. Coodrich, former Governor ©f Tndlana, today appeared as a wit- ¥.e85 against Warren T. McCray, pres. ent governor, at the latter’s trial “on ® charge of embezzling $155,000 from fihe state board of agriculture. Good- rich temporarily displaced I Newt Jirown, former secretary-treasurer of Ahe agricuitural board, as @ wWitness, The former governor has been prominent in connection With Me- Cray's financial collapse, having been 2 leading figure in a “pool” that Taised $350,000 several months ago 10 enable McCray to meet obligations <iescribed as “pressing.” Joscph B. Kealing, republican na- A%nal committeeman from Indiana, Jas testified that at a conference of o FATHER OF PRESIDENT OBSERVES BIRTHDAY Follows Usual Routine of Farm- work at Start of Seventy- Ninth Year. By the Associated Press. PLYMOUTH, Vt, March 31.—John C. Coolidge, father of the President, ob- served his seventy-ninth birthday quietly today. There was no special celebration, but the usual routine of the day at the farm home was interrupted by motion picture photographers, who obtained Mr. Cool- idge's consent to pose briefly for them. —_— 3 INDICTED HERE; PLOT T0 VIOLATE ORY ALY CHARGED Three Deputy Marshals, Po- lice Officer, Marine, Caterer | and Women Accused. Three deputy United States mar- shals, a lieutenant of police, a sar- geant of marines, a member of the |terminal police force at Union sta- {tion, two colored Pullman car por- ters and six other persons were in- d today by the grand jury in an| alleged conspiracy to violate the na- tional prohibition act. Three young women and fourteen men also were indicted for conspiracy to commit 100 offenses against the ed States through the alleged il- le transportation and sale of whisky. A Washington caterer to society functions, his wife, a waiter and two others are charged in a third indiat- ment with conspiracy to violate the Voistead act by furnishing intoxi- its at dinners and other social nis The deputy mhrshals are Patrick H. Barteman., Charles Marshall and Johnv& Newman, who, with Ernest T. Weaver and John J. Clarkson, were suspended from office Some weeks ago by United States Marshal nyder, pending un inquiry into charges. The indictment does not mention Weaver and_Clarkson. Lieut. Joshua L. Sprinkic of the eleventh previnct is named as one of the | alleged conspirators. He has been un- der suspension pending action by the grand jury. William Holler is the member of the Terminal police who is said to have been working with the alleged gang of boot- leggers, and Ralph McCullough is eaid to be the sergeant of marines invoived in the alleged fllegal transactions. The others named as conspirators are J Boudwin, his son, Joseph vin, jr.. John J. Hickey, Wallace arcsdale, Claude McNeill, James Hunt- er, Bromiey Hunter, James Arthur Wil- liamson, Emil Krause and Johr J. Lynch. Porters Central Figures. The alleged conspiracy was oper- ated, it is charged, by the Puliman porters bringing suit cases full of liquor from points in Florida to the Union station, where they were met by others of the alleged “gang,” who transported the whisky to the place of business of James Hunter at 919 D street northwest and elsewhere whence it was distributed to pur- chasers in varying quantities. This indictment alleged that Dup- uly Marshals Barteman and Marshall May 1, 1923, transported thirty-six quarts of liguor from Union station to the home of James Hunter, in Foxall | Heights. with to be charged in the against Deputy Marshal Newman and Licut. Sprinkle, although both are named as among the alleged conspir- ators John J. Hickey Js said to have sold James Hunter thirty-six_quarts of whisky October 13 Jast. Hickey tes- tified before the grand jury, it is un- derstood, but that did not prevent him being named in the indictment. Three Girls Indicted. Benjamin Morris, Milton Scarbor- ough and H. Curtis Lamson, who are said to have conducted a large busi- ness in the sale of intoxicants and to have had a mysterious list of promi- nent people for customers, were in- dicted today with eleven other ‘men and their three young girl telephone operators on a charge of conspiracy United States in connection with the sale and possession of whisky. The young woman employes are Marion Adams, Naomi Middleton and Pearl nt, Others named as conspirators are Bill_Murphy, alias Joe Marks; John C. Mack, alias William Schellenbe: Allen C. Witherite, Louis DeLane, John Foley, Roland Penneli, Jake Lloyd, alias Jesse Lloyd; Herman Yates, Harvey Pess, John C, Schellen- berg and John Warwick Birch Various ~ places of business and apartment houses, where the alleged conspirators had offices and rooms, are set forth in the indictment, and would-be purchasers are declared to have been futnished with code num- bers to be used instead of their mes in ordering. The young women would receive the orders over the telephone, it is al- leged, and would give them to some No overt act in connection ch the alleged conspiracy appears | indictment ; commit 100 offenses against the | WASHINGTON, D. C, SINCLAIR INDICTED YD.C. COURT FOR SENATE CONTEMPT Ten Counts in Indictment Based on Refusal to Reply to Probers. FINE AND JAIL TERM ! | IS PENALTY IN CASE| anIl History of Case Is Cited in | Twenty-Two-Page Finding by Grand Jury. Harry F. Sinclair, millionaire oil magnate, was indicted this afternoon by | the local grand jury on a charge of | contempt of the United States Senate | | by violating section 102 of the Revised | | Statutes of the United States, In refus- | |ing to answer certain questions pro- | { pounded to him by a committee of that body. i The Indictment fills twenty-two type- | written pages and is signed by United | States Attorney Gordon and by Atlee | | Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts as spe- | cial assistants. There are ten counts {in the indictment, one dealing with each { of nine inquiries’ propounded by Sena- tor Thomas J. Walsh of Montana to Mr. Sinclair ‘while the latter was a | witness before the committee on pub- lic lands and surveys of the Senate, | The tenth count deals with the general refusal of Mr. Sinclair to answer lnyl question. Quentions Called Pertiment. | The questions propounded by Sen- | ator Walsh are declared by the grand | jurors to have been “pertinent to the | matters and questions then under in- | quiry before the said committee” of | the Senate. | The indictment sets forth that for | many years the government of the United States has been greatly dis- | turbed by the progressive diminution of the supply of petroleum, from which are derived fuel oil, gasoline and other valuable products indis- | pensably necessary to the operation | of the naval States and has been keenly interested cconomical production, handling, age and use of such supply for that | Purpose. especially with reference to occurrence of such supply on the pub- | lic domain of the United States, and that this situation has been produc- tive of a considerable amount of ex- | ecutive action and of legislation by | Congress. ! Cites Executive Order. The indictment then sets out the executive order of September 2, 1912, | for the establishment of naval petro- | leum reserve No. 1; the executive: order of December 13,'1913, for reserve | No. 2, and the order of April 30, 1915, | for reserve No. 3. Then follow sec. tions, the act of February 25, 1920, June 4, 1920, the latter being the naval appropriation act, the executive order lof May 31, 1921, carrying into effect { the appropriation act authorizing the {leasing of oil wells by the Becretary | of the Interior in the naval reserves. | The latter order was signed by Presi- dent Harding. The grand jurors then declare that {April 7,°1923, Secretary Denby and | Seeretary of the Interior Fall, under supposed autnority of the act of | | June 4. 1920, had the exccutive order, {May 3i, 1921, as a result of the pro curement of Harry F. Sinclair, act- | ing as president of the Mammoth Oil Company, a Delaware corporation, and of negotiations with Sinclair, a ¥rtain lease was made to that cor- { poration of the Royalty Oil and Gas | which might accrue to the United States and sets forth subsequent sup- | plemental contracts with the same | company. Contracts by Denby and | | Fall, December 11, 1922, made with {the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company are also detailed in the indictment. After the making of these leases and contracts the indictment states the attention of the Senate was called to the matter, and charges of fraud, collusion and bad faith were made and the legality of the leases and con- tracts questioned. There then arose in the Senate, the indictment deelares, a question as to the future policy of the government as to such leases and the necessity and desirability of leg- islation upon the general subjects involved. Senate Resolution Shewn. The resolution of tho Senate to in- quire into the fraud charges and the appointment and authorization of the |committee is set forth, and, by reason thereof, it is claimed’ the commiteee on pubiic lands and surveys was em- Dowered to investigate the entire sub- ject of leases upon naval reserves with particular reference to the pro- ltection of the rights of the United State: The indictment goes on to tell of the summoning of Sinclair December 4, 1823, to give testimony before the com- mittee when he was sworn as a wit- ness. Later, on March 22, 1924, Sin- clair was recalled for examination in matters pertinent to the Senate inquiry. On_the latter occasion Senator Waish, a member of the committee, propound- ed to Sinclair a request that the wit- ness tell of a contract made by Sinclair | (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) tSalvaging Begun in Cumberland After $3,000,000 Flood Recedes {One Railroad Connection Left by Poto- mac Torrents—Mud Inches Thick on Store Stocks—Face Task Gamely. By Staff Correspondent. CUMBERLAND, Md., March 31.—Tso- lated from the outside world by a wall of water, which hems it in on the west, east, north and south, Cum- berland today set itself to the task of salvaging its business section and parts of its residential section; in- undated Saturday and part of yester- day by a torrential overflow of Wills creek and the Potomac river. ‘While it will be impossible for many days to ascertain the extent of the property damage suffered by resi- dents of Cumberland and those living in adjacent towns flooded by the tur- bid waters of the Potomac, leading business men and city officials agreed that $3,000,000 would be a conserva- tive estimate of the damage done. Hemmed in on the west by the Po- Tepublican leaders Goodrich told “McCray he bad ‘“violated every law the statute books” tomac, rushing with mighty force south and east, swelled by melting (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) snows from the mountains on the north of this community of 30,000 per- sons, the only contact Cumberland has ‘with the outside world in rail- road transportation is a slender thread of rail which may be unfit for use at any moment. Go to Werk Hepefully Cumberland awoke today with a grim determination to wipe. out her loss and to reconstruct her shattered business district. Although this city has not suffered the loss of any ma- jor buildings, every structure on North Mechanic street, Liberty street and in the adjacent thoroughfares was covered by the silt and mud of the torrent which swept down upon the city Saturday Business men hesi- ¢ T vessels of the United | Mellon out of the cabinet got away to in the subject of the conservation lnd! 2 Y stor- | | sion: ening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION MONDAY, ATIACK ON NELLON IN LIVPING START Democrats Divided as to Wisdom of Questioning Right to Hold Office. The campaign to drive Secretary a limping start today in the Senate. No sooner had the resolution ques- tioning Mr. Mellon's legal qualifica- tions come up for debate than the re- | publican organization directed a vig- orous fire against it, while demo- cratic chieftains went into a series of conferences on the wisdom of recog- nizing the resolution as a party measure. Robinsen in Disclaimer. “Senator Robinson-of Arkansas, re- turning to Washington after an ab- ence of several days, immediately disclaimed responsibility for the move to have the Secretary of the Treas- ury’s business connections inquired into, initiated last Friday by Senator McKellar, democrat, Tennessee. There plainly was a difference of opinion among the democrats as to the expediency of keeping the McKel- | lar resolution ahead of pressing legis- lation as a subject of Senate discus- Senator Robinson. who said the resolution had been introduced with- out his knowledge, quickly canvassed sentiment on the democratic side, while Senator Reed. republican, Penn- sylvania, was telling the Senate that Mr. Mellon had assumed office after he had been assured by the late Philander C. Knox and other legal asuthorities that there was no barrier. The nmew offensive in the Senate was resumed today while the com- mittee investigating the internal revenue bureau resumed its examin- ation of the tax records of “Mellon companies. The committes Thursday galled for definite figures on “lessee depletion” {and other allowances granted the Gulf 0Oil Corporation, one of the “Mellon companies,” in its tax cases for 1917, 1918 and 1419, and this information was promised for today by bureau officials. The cases brought the cor- poration credits totaling $3,775,000 for “net excessive payments. bureau's records of the matter were virtually 1mpounded by the commit- tee, in charge of Nelson T. Hartson, solicitor of the bureau, and S. M. Greenadge, an official, under oath as custodians. MeKellar Rushes Inquiry. Senator McKellar, democrat, Ten- nessee, meanwhile was prepared to press for action on the resolution he introduced Friday calling for an in- vestigation by a special committee of Mr. Mellon's legal qualifications to act as Secretary of the Tréasury. Sen- ator Wadsworth, republican, New York, blocked consideration of the proposal Friday, and it went over until today under the rules. No dis- position was shown by republican Jeaders, however, to oppose adoption | of the resolution. The resolution reviews testimony before the committee investigating the revenue bureau with reference to companies in which Secretary Mellon is_interested and cites statutes pro- hibiting fiscal agents of the govern- ment from maintaining commercial connections. Senator Reed, republican, Pennsyl- vania, informed the Senate today that the legal questions raised by the reso- Jution had been considered fully be- fore Mr. Mellon accepted the cabinet post. ‘Was Adyised on Point. Mr. Mellon had been-advised of the old statute prohibiting a Treasury Secretary from engaging in trade or (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) PASTOR SPURNS PURSE Offering Made by Hooded Men Dur- ing Farewell Sermon. COLD SPRINGS, N. Y., March 31— Rev. Jonas Inman, pastor of ‘the Methodist church in this village, re- tate to estimate their losses. They hope for the best, and a Spirit of buoyancy takes the place of the de- pression which could easily be ex- pected in similar circumstances. Outside of the meager potsibility that rail communication will continue, Cumberland today has only a limited Continued on Page 4, Column 1) fused to accept a purse of money last night from a band of white- robed and hooded men who entered the church while the minister was preaching. his farewell “sermon. In explaining today, he said he had no desire to' accept any favor from persons who went about in disguise. MARCH 31, SPEAKING OF FLOODS, ETC. WIDOW WILL PUBLISH PAPERS OF MR. WILSON Has Made Arrangements With New York Publishers for Six-Volume Edition. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 31.—The public papers of Woodrow Wilson will be published next fall through an ar- rangement with Mrs. Wilson, it {» an- nounced, by a New York publishing house. The edition will appear in six volumes. ATTORNEY GENERAL ‘70 BE NAMED SOON Massachusetts Justice Be- lieved Choice, Though Con- firmation Lacking. President Coolidge W}l make pub- lic his selection of a successor to Harry M. Daugherty as Attorney Gen- eral within the next two or three days, it was indicated at the White House today. Although it was intimated by those close to the Executive that he has made up his mind and that an offer may have been made, positive con- firraation of the report that announce- ment of the appointment is now only awaiting acceptance by Arthur P. Rugg, chief justice of the supreme court of Massachusetts, was withheld. 1t was stated. today by those in a position to know that President Cool- idge personally wants the Massachu- setts jurist to come into his cabinet and take over the management of the Department of Justice at this time. It is understood also that overtures have been made to the latter to tahke up this burden, and friende are cf the opinion that definite announcemcnt from the White House is merely awalting Justice Rugg's #nswi Because of tne task he will be called upon to assume, and because of the attractiveness and satisfactory naturo of his present high place, friends of Justice Rugg are doubtful if he would give it all un t> enter the cabinet. Politl Opportunity. ‘While the rumors regarding Justice Rugg’s seleciion continue so promi- nently there appeared today an un- mistakable eflort on the part of some republican leaders in Washington to prevail upon the President to make political capital out of this appoint- ment. There are repubiicans who, for pelitical reasons, if for no other, de- clare that the President should ap- point a man of the so-called progres- sive type to succeed Harry Daughert They point to Judge Willlam 8. Kenyon of Iowa as the type of man the country at large would like to see assisting in the handling of the administration’s affairs. These exponents of the progressiye type and who believe in acting in political expediency are frank and emphatic in their disapproval of a man from New England of the con- servative caliber of Justice Rugg. It is though, though, the President, now that he followed to a large ex- tent the wishes of republican leaders in the Senate by eliminating the; administration of Daugherty, will now follow his own ideas and de- sires. President Coolidge, it is represent- ed, will this week confer with a number of Senate leaders, collective- ly and individually, in an effort to get them to spur up the adminis- tration’s legislative program. ‘Watson Urges Action. Senator Watson, one of the White House callers, regarding the neces- sity for action in the Seénate, made the following statement today upon leaving the White House: “Now that Attorney General Daugh- erty has seen fit to resign, a new situation present itself in the Senate. | questions by Senator Copeland of New | mediately, but in the long run it should | result in bringing about a reduction in It seems to me that it fs the duty of the democratseto join with the republicans to bring the Senate back to_its legislative function. “It has been regrettable, although unavoidable, that four months of this session, with the most constructive legislative program before it of the reconstruction period following the war—have been devoted almost &n- tirely to the endless discussion of personalities involved in the ofl leases and alleged misdoings in public offic “I hope the Senate will begin with- out delay the legislative program laid before Congress by President Cool idge last December, and give the tax- payers what they are entitled to—a reduction in taxes and legislation to relieve the farm situation and im- prove domestic conditions as provided in other pending bills. “The Senate must devote itself un- tiringly if it hopes to conclude con- sideration of the legislative program and adjourn by June, which we ought to do. The general prosperity of the country would be aided by Congress enacting its program without delay so the business can adjust itself to ‘flqw conditions called for in new aws." 1924 —FORTY PAGES. i | | i TRACTION NERGER BACKED BY HANNA Advises Senate Committee “It Would Be Useful if Effected Properly.” A merger of the street car companies | in the District of Columbia together with the Potomac Electric Power Com- pany, now owned by the Washington Railway and Electric Company, “would be useful if put into effect properly,” J. | H. Hanna, vice president of the Capital | Traction Company, told the Senate Dis- | trict subcommittee at a hearing today | on the McKellar five-cent street car | bill. Mr. Hanna's statement regarding the proposed merger was made in reply to York, who wanted to know if such a | merger would result in a reduced’ car | fare. Mr. Hanna replied that it prob- | ably would not affect the car fare im- rates. He said that a merger probably would result in €ome improvements in | service. Seek Fair Return. Senator Ball, chairman of the com- | mittee, asked, it a merger was of-| fected, whether it would be possible | to reduce the fares to 5 cents, in the opinion of Mr. Hanna. Mr. Hanna re- plied “it could not be done allowing the companies a fair return on the valuation.” Mr. Hanna put into the record a statement showing that the Capital| Traction Company during the vears 1919, 1920, 1921 and 1322 earnad a to tal amount of $1,717,404.36 in excess | of a 7 per cent return, and during the same four years the Washington Railway and Electric Company had failed to earn a 7 per cent return by the amount of $1,762,677.81 | in other words, the net amount by, which the companies failed to earn | 7 per cent on their combined value in those four vears was $45,273.45 The figures given fot the Washington Railway and Electrio Company in the year 1922 were estimated, he said, and it the actual figures for that year were used the deficiency below a 7 per cent return would undoubt-| edly be larger. i Showed Surplus Accumulated. Another statement put into thej record by Mr. Hanna showed the! surplus accumulated by the Capital Traction Company after the payment of dividends over a period of ten years as follows: 1914, $37,127; 1915, $43,573; 1916, $36,177; 1917, $46,530; 1918, $168,089; 1919, $393,493; 1920, $606,072; 1921, $571,703; 1922, $264,- 991: 1923, $187,355—a total for ten years of $2,346,108. Hia. statement also showed that thero had been borrowed from the depreciation reserve fund on Decem- ber 31, 1923, $810.902. Senator MoKellar of Tennessee, author of the 5-cent street car fare bill, said it was apparent that in the'last five years the Capital Trac- tion Company had been able to put into a capitai account from its earn- ings approximately $500,000 a year, which could have been used in divi- dends. His contention was that the company . would ask that it be al- lowed (o earn a return of this addi- (Continued on Page 2, Columa 3.) BANK ROBBED OF $15,000. DETROIT, Mich, March 31.—Four armed bandits who held up the West Fort Street branch of the Common- wealth Federal Savings Bank at noon today held two employes and a customer at bay while they scoop- ed up all the money in sight and es- caped in an automobile. The amount taken was estimated at " $15,000. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes {man last was seen trudging through DAUGHERTY PROBE j to answer charges of conspiracy. _government warehouses. Airmen Go On Strike for Pay as fast as th e papers are printed. ’s_Circulation, 99,678 * Circulation, 106129 TWO CENTS. SEARCH ARIZONA DESERT FOR MAN LOST 15 DAYS Parties Go Fifty Miles Into Sand Wastes After Hat and Coat Are Found. By the Associated Press, PHOENIX, Ariz, March 31— Searching parties have gone into the desert fifty miles west of here in an effort to find Will C. Wills, a tele- | graph operator. The spot where the | the sand is twenty-five miles from food, ten miles from the nearest water in tha desert country seldom visited. His hat and coat were found yes- terday two miles from where, on March 16, he leaped from an automobile car- rying a party of friends. 1060 ON; MOVE 10 GAG MEANS HINTED Warrant Issued for Witness by New ‘fork Court Assailed by Wheeler. The Senate Daugherty investigating committee decided today to continue its inquiry despite Mr. Daugherty’ retirement to private life. At the same time committee mem- bers announced they intended to hold Gaston B. Means, former Department of Justice investigator, in attend- ance under a Senate subpoena, in spite of the issuance today of a bench warrant by the federal court at New | York ordering Means returned there The committee’s immediate objec- tive when it resumes hearings to- morrow will be to clear up the fac as to the Department of Justice's prosecution of war frauds and anti- trust cases. Take Tp Meanws Case. ‘When news was received of Judge rvin's order in New York for Means' arrest the committee took | up the subject in executive session. ““This is an apparent attempt on the: part of H. C. Todd, the special assis- | tant to the Attorney General, in charge of Means' prosecution, to block this investigation,” said Senator | Wheeler, the committee prosecutor. | “It is the committee’s purpose to keep Means here as 2 witness, and to re- | tain his services for the committee. | government prosecution at New | Of course, that conducted at any | York could be time." Means testified early in the com- mitee’s procedure, telling of money paymcnts made to Jess Smith in con- nection with pending cases. A decision on the motion before the committee to have Mal S. Daugherty, | brother of the former Attorney Gen- eral, cited to the Senate for contempt was postponed. The question may be decided later today. Mal Daugherty | failed to respond when called under a subpoena last week, and previously had refused to open to the commit- tee's agents all records of the Mid- land National Bank of Washington Court House, Ohio, of which he is| president. He submitted a memoran- | dum Saturday, challenging the com- | mittee's legal right to require his presence. i Seaife Testimony Denfed. | The committee has an affidavit from | A. F. Myers, a special assistant to| the Attormey General, flatly denying | testimony smiven last week by H. L. Scaife, who at one time was attached | to the Department of Justice and as- | igned to investigations of aircraft udits. Myers specifically challenged caifc’s statements that he had “blocked” investigation “of the | Standard Aircraft Company or any | other company, and that 1 was ap- | pointed to my position through in- | uence of George W. Wickersham, at- | orney for the Standard Aircraft Com- | s { PERY the open hearing tomorrow, the | committee will replace Scaife on the | witness stand. ORDERS MEANS’ ARREST. | New York Court Issues Bench War- | rant in Case. i By the Associated Press. ! NEW YORK, March 31.—Federal Judge Garvin today ordered a bench warrant issued for the arrest of Gas- ton B. Means, former agent of the Department of Justice, who is under | indictment for conspiracy to violate the Volstead law, and whose trial was to have begun here today. When Judge Garvin called the case of Means and his former secretary, Elmar W. Jarnecke, both named in the conspiracy indictment, John T. McGovern, counsel for Means, de- clared his client was in Washington and would not be able to appear here because he was under subpoena by the Senate committee investigat- ing the Department of Justice. Asks Ball Be Forfeited. Hiram Todd, assistant District at- torney, insisted that Means' bail of $15.000 be forfeited and that a war- rant be issued for his arrest Judge Garvin granted the motion, The gov- ernment _attorney asseried Means twice had failed to appear for trial and had given illness as his reason. | He declared the district court here took precedence over the Senate com- mittee. The indictment against Means, re- turned October 18, contains 'four counts, the first alleging he entered into a conspiracy to obtain the re- lease of 12,000 cases and 12,500 bar- rels of whisky from government warehouses. : The second involves fifty-five bar- rels of*whisky, the third eighty-eight barrels and the fourth charges con- spiracy and use of the mails to de- fraud in connection with an attempt to obtain $75,000 from a man in Chi- cago for the release of liquor from Raise jof th | changes, RESOLUTION ASKING ROOSEVELT T0 QUIT PRESENTED BY DILL Assistant Navy Secretary Is Called More Culpable Than Denby. USE OF MARINES TO AID SINCLAIR, ONE CHARGE | Subpoena Servers Fail to Locate Ex-Head of Republican Finance Committee. Demand for removal from office of Theodore Roosevelt, assistant Sacre- tary of the Navy, was renewed in the Semate today by Senator Dill, demo- crat, Washington. Declaring the assistant seeretary Was far more culpable than was his superior, Secretary Denby, in the leasing of the naval oil reserves, the Washington senator introduced a resolution declaring it to be the sense of the Senate that President Coolidgs should call for his resignation. ‘Was Sinelair Director. The resolution charges Mr. Roese velt with having been a director of the Sinclair Oil Company previous to entering the government service, and stresses that he ordered marines to remove oil claimants from Teapot Dome reserve. The text of Senator Dill's resolu- Theodore Roosevelt, tha assistant secretary of the Navy, was a director of the Sinclair Oil Com pany previous to his entrance into the government service “Whereas as assistant secretary of Navy he personally carried the xecutive order to the White House r the President to sign, which order transferred the control of the naval oil reserves from the Secretary Navy to the Secretary of th Ordered Marines to Teapot. “Whereas, on July 29, 1 My Roosevelt, then the acting Secretar) of the Navy in the absence of Secrs tary Denby, ordered the United States Marines to remove all oll claimante from the naval reserve No. 3. amd thersby made an outrageous use of the armed forces of the United States to perform acts whicl £hould have been performed only by civil officers on the order of a court after due hearing of all of the facts in_the case, Now, therefore, be it resolved, It is the sense of the Senate that the President should be and he is hereby requested to ask for the resignation of Mr. Theodore Roosevelt as as- sistant secretary of the Navy." Recently Mr. Roosevelt was severe- Iy criticized before the oil committee by Senator Walsh, democtat, Mon tana, the committee prosecutor, and several democratic senators have de- SENATORS RESTORE PRODUCE SHLESTAX Committee Also Puts Back Rates on Promissory Notes and Drafts. 922 The taxes on produce exchanze sales and on drafts or promissory notes were restored to the revenu bill with the rates of the present law today by the Senate finance com- mittee. The House had cut in half the present tax on sales of produce ex- amounting to 2 cents for each $100 of value, and had stricken out entirely the tax on drafts and premissory mnotes, amounting to % cents for each §100. The first cut, it was estimated, would reduce revenue $4,000,000 and the latter $2,150,000. Secretary Mellon had not proposed either of the reductions. Taxes on Tobacoe. The sections of the bill providing for taxes on cigars and tobacco were agreed fo by the committee. No change from the present law had been made in these rates by the House. Action was deferred on the excise taxes, in which the House made con- siderable changes, and on the estate tax, which the House increased, pending a hearing of Secretary Mellon tomorrow. Lim| Deductions, A Treasury provision limiting de- ductions which might be made on gross incomes to exclude certain amounts of interest received on tax- exempt securities was agreed to as passed by the House. Senator Simmons, North Carolina, rinking democrat on the committee. asked that the provision for a per cent reduction on earned incomes Dbe reconsidered, but a motion to in- crease from $10,000 to_ $20,000 the maximum amount on which the re- duction might be made was defeated. The House had set $20,000 as the maximum. In British Long-Distance Mail Flights| DIES VAINLY FOR TWO. By the Associated Press, CROYDON, England, March 31.—An unprecedented strike was begun here today—a strike of the airmen in the service of the concern which carries the British air mails—when the pilots and mechanics connected with long- distance flights ceased their work be- cause of a dispute with the new air combine regarding rates of pay. ve £450 ._"Az‘&re;k‘fl’nl th:ltph‘ufl’ln‘u e ol‘ll _shillings hourly, bringing the agere- gate pay in some cases to £850. The new combine, the Imperial Air Trans- port Company, which is just taking over the air mail services, proposes to pay £100 yearly to some of the airmen and £200 to others as their regular pay, with 2 pence per mile flying money, The men consider these rates in- sufficient. Nome of the long-distance airplanes left the airdrome at Croy- don, whence the air mail starts for the continent, and the ban has been extended also to machines which could get out and back again during the day. Hospital Attendant and Two Pa- tients Perish in Fire. NEGAUNEE, Mich,, March 31— Three persons were killed when fire, believed caused Dby a defective chimney, last night destroyed the Negaunee Hospital. Alex. Martinson, twenty-one, night orderly, gave his life in vainly try- ing to' save Mrs. Richard Sjolund, forty-five, mother/of eight children, and Jack Eddy, fifty-three, pioneer resident of Negaunee.