Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1924, Page 1

| \ \’Struck Victim With Chisel, Then \) i ' WEATHER. Fair tonight; cloud ate westerly winds Temperature for twenty ended at 2 p.m. to 4 noon today; lowest, h tomorrow and slightly warmer; High at 5 today. Full report on puge 4. New York Stock Market Closed Today mostly moder- -four hours 66, at 0 am. Entered post office No. 29,250. Soe0 Washington, nd-class matter D C. ch WASHING' SLEW FRANKS BOY, 2 RICH MEN'S SONS ADMIT; ADVENTURE PROMPTED ~ CRIME | | *N. E. Leopold, Richard Loeb, Young Students, Confess| Under 36-Hour Grilling;l Sought Ransom of $10,000. | | KIDNAPING AND MURDER ‘ PLANNED MANY MONTHS | i Strangled Him With Gag., Calmly Relate Details—Pair of Spectacles Led to Apprehension. | STATE DEPARTMENT SILENT Will Get Speedy Trial. 1By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 31.—Robert E.| 1Crowe, state’s attorney, announced | carly today that Nathan E. Leopold, jr. and Richard Loeb, youthful 1members of wealthy Chicago families and both post-graduate law students at a university here, had confessed that they kidnaped and murdered | fourteen-year-old Robert Franks, | son of Jacob Franks, retired mil- lionaire pawnbroker and manufac- rer. The boy was struck with a hisel, then stranged with a gag. They said they planned a kidnaping and murder in great detail last No- vember, both through a spirit of ad-| venture and because they wanted the $10,000 ransom they demanded, ac- cording to Mr. Crowe. The youths said they determined upon no defi- nite victim, and that the kidnaping and murder of young Franks was| werely incidental, Sought “Easy Money.” | “Why did you kill him?" the two were asked. 2 “We just did it,” they are alleged to have answered, later adding that they had made the plan out of a de- | sire for adventure and to acquire some “casy money,” apparently though both boys have been plenti- | tully supplied with money by their _par, it " Crowe declared that they gaid they once had considered kidnaping a son of Julius Rosenwald, internationally | known philanthropist. The story they told of planning to | kidnap a son of Julius Rosenwald | apparently was based on their bellef | that the rich philanthropist had a| yong son. Mr. Rosenwald has no such son. But they admitted, Mr. Crowe said, that they first merely had talked of kidnaping a wealthy | man's son for ransom. The kidnaping was carried out in every detall as planned, including the | victim's death, Mr. Crowe said Leo- pold and Loeb confessed. He said l.eopold admitted writing a letter to the father of the Franks boy de- manding $10,000, and that the aut mobile used to spirit away their vic- tim_was a rented machine. The alleged confessions are said to state that the decision to kidnap young Franks was formed when they sa whim on the street the afternoon of May 21 as he was walking home rom a private school. Trapped by Spectacles. “The finding of the spectacles near | e boy's body provided our only gible clue,” said Mr. Crowe. 1t s through them that the kidnaping | slaying Were traced to young old. The typewriter used and ng stripped from young Franks not been recovered, Mr. Crowe dding that he expected to have them Py tonight, as well as the au- tomoble used. Tanks, father or the slain it was difficult for him to| concelve that the two boys—or any other person—had kidnaped and killed the little fellow. He said he had just slept for the first time in thirty-six hours when awakened and " rmed of the alleged confessions. “It is difficult to understand,” he murmured. . Relatives of both youthful prison- ers refused to believe the story of the state's attorney. “Lie,” Father of Leopold Saym. “That's a lie, that boy cannot be suilty,” said Nathan Leopold, sr. Ernest Loeb, brother of Richard Loeb, also received the information given out by the state's attorney with incredulity. | “It cannot be s0,” he asserted. “We | know exactly where Dick was every hour of this particular Wednesday.” Loeb is the son of Albert L. Loeb, millionaire vice president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, of which Rosenwald is the head. | Leopold’s father is a wealthy box | manufacturer, said to be especially well known in Lake shipping circles. State’s Attorney Crowe sald young Loeb started to break down at 1 a.m., after thirty-six hour's of grilling, The beginning of the break was said to have occurred when the state's | attorney told him_that the Leopold famlly chauffeur, Sven Englund, had declared that young Leopold’s car| was In the garage the night the | Franks boy disappeared. Leopold had said that he and Loeb had been riding around, drinking gin and whis- ky that evening and had invited two girls into the car and that they had reached the Leopold home about 10:30 o'clack that night. Curses at Disclosure. Loeb turned pale and was visibly disconcerted when his examiners in- formed him of Englund's statement. He began pacing the prosecutor’s office, asked for a cigaret, and with an oath exclaimed: “Did he say that?" M 1t was only a short time then until a court stenographer was called for, jamuel Ettleson, former Chicago ety founsel and the Franks family at- torney, were admitted to the prosecu- tors chambers, and Mr. Crowe's an- nouncement ending the mystery. The breakdown of their previous composed and frank manner, which had_virtually won the investigators 10 their side, was astonishing even to the sthte’s attorney’s me: ly before the alleged confe: s Hangs With Head Wedged in Ties As Trains Pass By By the Associuted Press. NEW YORK, May #1.—Suspend- ed by his head. which had been caught between two ties. a man believed to be P. J. Mullins today hung from an eclevated railway track in Brooklyn until he was rescued by firemen. who cut away the ties. Police for the were t unable to account that the man's body was below the tracks and his head jammed between the tie: Only hls chin saved him from fal ing. He was suffering from lacerations and a possible frac- ture of the skull, from which he was said to be in a critical con- dition. 5 The police believed that several trains passed over the victim's head. JAPANESE PROTEST DELIVERED TO HUGHES | Hanihara Formally Presents Docu-| ment Hitting Exclusion; Publication Withheld. ‘Embassy Officials Also Refuse to| Discuss Matter. Ambassador Hanihara, acting on instructions from his government, delivered today to Secretary Hughes the protest made by Tokio against| the exclusion provision of the new immigration act. The ambassador called at the State Department shortly before noon and was received at once by Secretary Hughes. Neither he nor the Secre- tary, it was said, would have any statement to make. The same silence prevails at the embassv. It is known, however, that Ambassador Hanihara has not been instructed by his government in the matter further than to deliver the protest to Secretarv Hughes. With this step complished today, it re- v for the diplomat to send the customary formal report to To- kio, announcing that his instructions have been carried out. Publication Withheld. A report to that effect will be ca- bled to Tokio from Washington prob- ably tonight and with it will go a brief account of the conference be- tween the ambassador and Secretary Hughes. No plans have been made for pub- lication of the protest, either by the embassy or the State Department. Secretary Hughes and other admi istration officials concerned will be gin imediately a study of the protes: This task is expected to require ge: {eral days or mors, and pending . its completion no formal announcement regarding the attitude of the Wash- ington government will be forthcom- ing. TOKIO OFFICIALS CALM. Protest Presentation to Close Issue for Time. BY E. R. EGGER. (By Radio to The Star and the News. Copyright, 1 TOKIO, May 31.—The formal protest of Japan against exclusion, in reply to the American government is ex- pected temporarily to close the immi- gration issue, pending the anticipated change in the Tokio cabinet and the coming election in America. According to official intimations, the conversations of the foreign of- fice and the exchange of notes fol- lowing the enactment of the immigra- tion measures will be purely formal with a view of indicating the unsati factory outcome and paving the way for a continuance of the discussions between the American State Depart- ment and Tokio. The Japanese gov- ernment later hopes to arrive at an amicable solution of the issue, which will offset the damaging cfiect of the crude congressional action. Dignified Calm to Prevall. Despite anticipations that Tokio will take a stronger attitude in the event that Viscount Kato becomes premier in the party government, the correspondent is convinced that the government will maintain a dignified calmness and fo! low an_irreproachable course in seek- ing to remove the alleged stain on the naddonal prestige. . Stressing reports of the boycott move- ments and the anti-American actions is unfortunate. The cases are isolated, and do not represent the general publ which is treating the Americans with the utmost courtesy, despite the deep resentment rankling within. However, Chicago Daily 24.) lit is impossible to restthin expressions of indignation through the spoken and | written word. Negotiations Approved. Negotiations for a new immigration { treaty following the lines Secretary Hughes is reported to be advocating are certain to receive the hearty sup- port of Tokio, as offering a possible solution for the government to ap- pease the Japanese nation. There is a_growing conviction that NERR CONFESSED | HELPINGCHINESEY, SAYS CONSULCHEF fVice Consul at Vancouver: | Admitted Taking $50 to Se- cure Vise, Norton Charges. HELD IN $5000 BAIL | | FOR U. S. GRAND JURY1 J e | Ryder, Consul General, Signed| | Passports, Witnesses Testify. “ .[ Called Routine Matter. | Testimony of a sensational nature, in which the name of Frederick M. Ryder, United Stuates consul gen- eral at Vancouver, was mentioned was presented at the hearing of David C. Kerr, vice consul general at the same port, before Unjited States | Commissioner Turnage m.m?' on charges | & accepting bribes to assist in the pas- sage of Chinese aliens across the Ca- nadian border. An alleged confession by Kerr that he accepted money for his | influence in obtaining the passports was | introduced as evidence. B | Mr. Kerr was held for the action of the present federal grand jury. Despite efforts of counsel to have his_bond reduced, it was continued at $5.000 upon the insistence of As- sistant United States Attorney hlly, who pointed out that viction on a charge of accepting | bribes for the illegal viseing of pas; ports would entail a heavy jail sen- tence. Former Imspector Testifies. Mr. Kerr surrendered himsef to Commissioner Turnage late Thursday | %fter he had been informed by news- paper men that a warrant had been | issued for his arrest. He was accused | of having accepted large sums of| | money to use his office o assist Chi- | nese immigrants across the Canadian | border on fraudulently vised passports. | At the hearing today he reiterated his plea of not guilty. The first witness calied by the gov- | ernment was John L. Zurbrick, now | | assistant commissioner of immigra- tion at Seattle. As an immigration inspector at Vancouver in 1921, Mr. | Zurbrick testified, his attention Wui attracted by an increasingly large number of alien Chinamen who were entering the United States via Van- couver on passports vised by either Mr. Kerr or Mr. Ryder, the signa- tures of each having appeared at dif- ferent intervals. Citen Hyder Sigmatu Asied by LUpited States Attorney Fiehlly to name a specific Instance where an alien orfental had illegally obtained admission to this country on a passport vised at Vancouver, he | cited the case of one Chin Jan Yuen, |a merchant. Mr. Zurbick testified |that he knew it to be a fact that Yuen was not exempt from the im- { migration restriction laws. “Who signed or vised his passport?” he prosecutor asked his witness. “I will have to refer to my pa- pers.” replied Mr. Zurbrick. After examining a roll of official documents | he looked up and replied, “Frederick M. Ryder. Mr. Ryder ‘was consul general at Vancouver at the time and the testimony was ruled out on the | ground that it failed to touch upon | the charge against Mr. Kerr. Mr. | Zurbrick was excused from further examination without the defense ask- ing any questions. ~ Says Kerr Contenaed. Edward J. Norton, chief of the con- sular personnel of the Department of State, described a confession Mr. Kerr alleged to have signed in Vancou- rin 1923 when Mr. Norton was sent to the Canadian city to examine con- ditions called to the attention of the department through Mr. Zurbrick. In the confession Mr. Kerr is alleged to have admitted taking money to use his influence in obtaining vises to the rts of a number of Chinese who were barred by the immigration laws. Under cross-examination Mr. Nor- | ton admitted that he had told the vice | consul that he wanted the confession |for the private files of the State De- partment and that he had promised to “do all I could to help Mr. Kerr if he signed the paper.” Bert Emmer- son, counsel for Mr. Kerr, fought to have the paper thrown out on the grund that the confession had been obtained under promise of a reward. Commissioner Turnage, however, | overruled the motion and the docu- ment was admitted to evidence. Hard Pressed, Says Confesaion. Mr. Norton Said Mr. Kerr had told | him how he had refused for years to | accept offiers of bribes to use his in- | fluence to obtain illegal vises. Final- 1y, the State Department official said, Kerr told how he needed money to pay a pressing bill. One of the men engaged in the trade of helping Chinese_enter the United States un- con- it (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) SCHURMAN OPPOSED AS U. S. JAPAN ENVOY Fight on Wireless Rights and Anti- Japanese Speeches Held Basis for Unpopularity. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, May 31.—Jacob Gould Schurman, American minister to China, whose name, it is believed, is before the foreign office as a possi- ble successor to Cyrus E. Woods as ambassador to Japan, would not be popular here, in the opinion of the newspaper Kokumin. As minister in Peking, the paper says, Schurman op- posed Japan, showed indifference to her rights, and is now fighting the wireless contract made between the firm of Mitsui and the Chinese gov- ernment. The Kokumin also charges Schurman with making anti-Japanese speeches. The American and Japanese lega- tions in Peking have been interested in the contracts granted the Federal Telegraph Company of America and the Mitsul firm. e Japanese have contended that the Federal contract was a breach of that previously granted the Japanese company.. The American govefnment _has urged that the contract J§th the Fed- eral be carried out. 2 = “{Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) RUSSIA-RUMANIAN WAR DECLARED NEAR | Correspondent Says Tension Over Bessarabia Issue Near Break- | ing Point. ‘ | | By the Associated Press. TONDON, May 31.—The situation in ! Bessarabla, the: former Rumania province, which the allies conceded to Rumania, is one of great tension, and indications point to war between Russia and Rumania at no distant date, according to a dispatch sent from_Kishinev by a special corre- spondent of the Daily Express. The writer says the prevalent idea that the soviet aims at repossessing Bessarabia is true. This province, however, is “only a pawn in the Rus. sian game, of which Constantinople is the real objective,” although, ac- cording to the Rumanian view, the first step will be to seize the mouth of the Danube. The Czarists in -Russia, he adds, have offered to recognize Rumanl possession of Bessarabla if she will support their aims, and had gone so far as to_suggest a Rumania offensive against Kiev with the object of es- tablishing a Csarist government in the Ukraine. Meanwhile dispatches from other sources declare that the ‘recent de- struction of the arsenal at Bucharest has 5o crippled Rumania’s military resources that it would be long be- fore she comid, it she wished, under- % ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 0 - Star. ON, D. C, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1924 -THIRTY PAGES. \ OH. HES JUST A LAST MINUTE TAXPAYER S TRYIN’ To BEAT A RS BLANKET RENT BOARD INJUNCTION SOUGHT { G. W. Linkins Attacks Validity nf‘ Law, Would Stop Pay of Members of Body. | REPLY DEMANDED‘ON JUNE 6 Chastleton Case Basis of Suit Filed Today. Attacking the validity of the joint resolution of Congress extending the life of the Ball rent act until May 22, 1925, George W. Linkins, a taxpayer, owner of real estate and realty broker for thirty-seven years, today asked the Districy Supreme Court for a blanket injunction against the Rent Commission from proceeding to hear any cases involving disputes between landtor@s and tenants. - - Mr. Linkins also asked that the government pay officials be enjoined from sending any funds of the United States or of the District of Columbia in payment of the salaries of the five members of the Rent Commission or for clerk hire or other expenses. Justice Stafford issued a rule on the defendants to show cause June 6 why the injunction should not be granted. D. C. Assessor Named. Named as defendants, besides the Rent Commission, are Willlam P. Richards, district assessor, who acts with them in advisory capacity: Chapin Brown, attorney for the com- mission; Daniel J. Donovan, auditor of the District; James R. Lusby, dis- bursing officer of the District; Frank ‘White, treasurer of the United States. Through_Attorneys Charles Linkins, George R. Linkins and William H. Linkins the plaintiff says he brings the suit in his own interest and in behalf of and for the benefit of all others similarly situated. The court is advised that in the Chastleton case the United States Su- preme Court took judicial notice of the passing of the emergency on which the original Ball act was based, and stated that the act had ceased to operate on April 21, 124, and prob- ably at some time prior to that date. The plaintiff claimed that without an emergency the joint resolution of May 17, 1924, is unconstitutional and void, and was beyond the power of Congress to enact., and “was never operative or had any validity what- ever,” and that the attempted ap- pointment of Whaley and his asso- ciates on the Rent Commission was void and of no effect. Cites Whaley Statement. In spite of this, it is alleged, Whaley, as chairman of the' commis- sion, has announced that he is going to proceed with hearings and that “it will take more than 500 injunctions to stop us” . Salaries of tlie members of the com- mission and the expenses of conduct- ing the hearings, with clerk hire and the like, are paid from taxes, it is stated, derived from residents of the District; and the plaintiff asserts that he and.other taxpayers will be seri- ously affected if the pay officials of the District and federal governments are not enjoined from making these alleged 1illegal payments. Auditor | Donovan has informed him, the plain- tiff says, that, unless restrained by court onder, he will continue to pay the expenses, salaries of the commis- sion, and a like view is said to be entertained by the other officials named. Asks Resolution Be Volded. The court is asked to decree the joint resolution extending the life of the commission to be null and void, to restrain permanently the opera- tions of the commission in all cases, and to prevent any attempt by the Rent Commission to enforce any rul- ing or order made by it since April 21, 1924, when the United States Supreme Court décision was rendered. Testimony before the Senate com- mittee, it is stated, showed that there are sufficient properties vacant in the District of Columbia of all classes to meet reasonable demands of pros- pective tenants, and that the real emergency existing is “the fact. that the United States government is pay- ing its employes in the District of Columbia insufficient salaries.” ARGENTINE SEEKS LOAN. Negotiations for $30,000,000 Pro- posal Proceeding Favorably. BUENOS AIRES, May 31—It is un- derstood that negotiations are pro- gressing between .the Argentine gov- ernment and _American bankers_ for the flotation in New York of a $30.- 000,000 olan with which to m oft the $20,000,000 due New York kers at the end of August. It is stated that other barikers are financing the new transaction on more favorable terms than old one. The term of d be for one year. . MAY 31, 1924. Airplane to Drop Sunday Star to President on Ship President Coolidge, while cruis- ing down the Potomac tomorrow morning, will have his Sunday Star dropped from the skies to the deck of the Mayflower, under plans being made at the Naval Air Sta- tion, Anacostia, D. C., today. The President and a pariy of friends will leave Washington this afternoon for the longest week end gruise he has taken and it had been suggested to send a speed boat down the river after the May- flower with the papers aboard. Officers at the air station, how- ever, have decided to learn of the yacht's position tomorrow morn- ing by radio and then Lieut, H. E. Carlson will fly a Martin mono- plane to the vessel and drop the papers from aboy Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Hos- ton, Mass, who i visiting at the White House, will accompany the President and Mrs. Coolidge, but it is thought unlikely there will be more than one or two other guests. The cruise will be down the Po- tomac to y, where the boat will remain tomorrow morning before starting back for PUNCTUALITY ASKED OF ORATION AUDIENCE Holders of Reserved Tickets Re- quested to Be Seated Promptly at 7:45 P.M. EVENT TO BE BROADCAST Star Will Conduct Sightseeing Trip Saturday, June 7. Announcements of interest to those who hold tickets for the national oratorical contest to be held on the night of June 6 at Memorial Conti- nental Hall, were made today by contest officials from headquarters of the contest in The Star building. It is anneunced that holders of re- served seat tickets must be at Me- morial Continental Hall on the even- ing of the contest, in time to occupy their seats by 7:45 o'clock. General Admission 8 O'Clock. Holders of general admission tick- ets should be at the hall promptly at 8 o'clock, it was announced. The strict observance of the time set is requested in order to permit the full program to move forward promptly. Not only will those in-the D. A. R. Hall hear the event, it was pointed out, but millions 'throughout _the ocountry will be “listening-in" to hear the seven young orators, representing all rections of the country, as they deliver their addresses on the Con- stitution. Through stations WCAP . of this gity, WEAF of New York city, and WJAR of Providence, R. I, the words in_ praise of broadeast to the land. This is but one of the reasons why the contest must start “on time.” There will be seven addresses, each occupying twelve minutes. These will follow an address by President Cool- idge, who will preside. He will be presented by President Robert E.Lee S’lner of the American Bar Associa- tion. Marine Band te Play. Immediately after the President's address there will bé a selection played by the United States Marine Band Orchestra. follow immediately, the first three speakers being Don Tyler of Los An- geles, John M. Dallam, 3d, of Phila- delphia and Jack Turner of Birming- PATier a musical intermission Ruth Newburn of the Central High School, representing the District of Columbia, will present her tgnsuon, to‘ug‘yoa kl: order by George umaos of ope| Eleanor Huber of lmmme and Vail Barnes of New Brighton, N. Y. The orchestra will play while the scoring of the board of judges is being checked and madse into a - box score. Chief Justice Taft of the United States Supreme Court heads: the , the other members of which are Justices Van Devanter, Sanford, Sutherland and Butler of the same court. Plans call for the presentation of the awards, checks for $3,600, $1,000 and $500, by Frank B. Noyes, pre: dent of The Evening Star. Newspaper Company, custodian of the national prizes, to Chief Justice Taft, who, in turn, will formally present them to the winners. < As persons all over the United States will be “listening in” to hear the awards, it is imperative that the program be finished by 10:15 o'clock, the broadcasting to be from 8:15 to 10:15 o'clock. The end of the broad- casting was originally set for 10 o'clock, but, through the courtesy of the Wardman Park Hotel, a portion of the time reserved for the ding the Constitution will be | The contest will | CHINA RECOGNIZES SOVIET GOVERNMENT Russia Drops Three Claims, Gains on Two—Relations Will Be Resumed. STEAL MARCH ON JAPANESE Peking First Far Eastern Govern- ment to Reach Pact. BY WILLIAM R. GILE! By Cable to The Star and Ohicago Daily News. Copyright, 192 PEKING, May 31.—China today will announce a full agreement with Rus- sla on matters which have deadlocked the preliminary conference between the two nations, and which presage opening of the formal conference. China has agreed to accord full rec- ognition to Russia. The agreement between China and Russia was sigied morning by Forelgn Minister Wel- lington Koo and M. Leo Karahan. soviet envoy. It provides for imme- diate resumption of normal relations between the two countries. Wil Withdraw Troops. The majority of the minor matters were left open for a conference to be called late in June. China gained three points in the preliminary discussion and Russia two. The text of the agreement was not announced, but it was officially explained that Russia had agreed to withdraw her demand that China make no treaty with a third party ligely to affect Russia without Russia’s consent. Moscow agreed to withdraw the red troops from Mongolia at a time to be fixed at the formal conference and leave open the question of what disposition is to be made of the Russian Orthodox Church property in China. Russia also agreed not to transfer to a third party any property or rights renounced by Russia, and agreed that Russia’s renounced share of the Boxer indemnity fund shall go to China for education purposes after payment of the outstanding obliga- tions. Both nations agreed upon a new provisional management for the Chinese Eastern railway which means that the Reds will share in the man- agement to the exclusion of/the French banking interests whiok the French legation has already warned China against in a recent note. The French legation is taciturn pending publication of the full text of today's agreement. China has stoleri & march on Japan and is the first nation in the far east to recog- nize the soviet government and has been promised valuable concessions therefor. Maid Steals $25,000 Gems for an hour as a maid in the River- side Drive apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Plaut, a woman identified as Elizabeth Hollrahan, forty-eight years old, departed with jewelry valued at $25,000, the police reported today. Finishes World Tramp at 96. Mark All is_the world's longidis- tance tramp. He is just completing a long walk begun about twenty-four years ago, and when completed will have taken him all over the world. He inety-six vears old and apparently will be able to travel for many more years. Marion Leroy Burton, president of the University of Michigan, probably will place President Coolidge in nom- ination at the Republican national con- vention. Selection of Dr. Burton, a long-time friend of the President, is understood to have been virtually agreed upon by Willlam M. Butler, in charge of the Coolldge campaign, and his as- sociates. A formal announcement Is expected before Mr. Butler leaves ‘Washington tomorrow for Cleveland. Field Narrowed to Two. Selection of a man to nominate the President at Cleveland has en- D‘:lm tlguleru o(l ‘t‘hs Cooléfl{he c‘:l“é gn. for several days, and the was rowed down finally tnpDr, Burtofl And Herbert S. Hadley, former 9‘; of Missouri, ‘Washington ‘I'J‘I m‘wm'-'i niversity, ‘The latter probably could t. 86 17 Fetou- thee ARERITENL NEW_YORK, May 31.—Employed | * ONFEREES LT ON 6040 BASS ASK HOUSE VOTE Neither Side Willing to Budge From Fiscal Relations Stand. DISCUSSION CONFINED TO FIRST AMENDMENT Appropriations Might Con- tinue for Year. ¥ailing to reach any the fiscal relations amendment to the District appropriation bill. the con- ferees of the Senate and House today determined to report a disagreement on that amendment to the House. ther meeting of the conferees will be held ‘until after the House has voted again on this matter, it was said. The House probably will not have an opportunity to act on the report of its conferees until Monday. The House conferees, at today's ses- sion of the conference committee, con- tended strongly for the so-called Cram- ton amendment, which proposes an $5,- 000,000 lump sum as the government contribution to the upkeep of the Na- tional Capital in place of the present 60-40 method of appropriating for the District. Senators Stand Firm. On the other hand, the Senate con- ferees were just as insistent that the 60-40 plan should be continued. The Senate voted into the bill, as an alternative for the $8,000,000 lump sum proposed by the House, a $14,000,- 000 lump sum, or the 60-40 plan. Should the 60-40 plan eventually be abandoned, it is believed that the lump sum will be at least 40 per cent of the amount carried in the bill. This will be upward of $10,000,000 and perhaps as much as $11,000,000. The discussion today at the meet- ing of the conference committes was confined entirely to the first amend- ment in the bill. the fiscal relations amendment. The Senate has many other amendments, increasing the creasing the total of the bill approximately $4.500,000, and amendments must be considered future meetings of the conferees. t No until after the House shall have acted again on the fiscal relations of the Result of Dead uck. Should a deadlock result between the two houses it would be necessary tion extending for another vear the present appropriations. This have the effect of continuing in effect | for another year the 60-40 plan | Many appropriaiions needed for new projects. however, would be lost if such a ccurse were followed for at least a year. Some provision would the pay of the emploves of the Di fication plan reported by the person- nel classification board and provided for in the pending bill HABEAS CORPUS ORDER GRANTED M.S. DAUGHERTY By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, May 5 ~-Federal Judge A. M. J. Cochran today granted the application of M. S. Daughert Washington Courthouse, Ohlo. bank- er, for a writ of habeas corpus r leasing him from custody of an as sistant sergeant-at-arms of the United States Senate who had arrest- ed him on a warrant charging con- tempt. Judge Cochran, in granting M Daugherty a discharge from custody, declared that the Senate had usurped judicial power and encroached on the prerogative of the House of Rep- resentatives. Cochran holds that the Senate is not engaged in investigating the Attor- ney General's office, but is investi- gating the former Attorney General. In so doing. he holds, it is exerci has no power to do thi The actlon for a writ arose follow- ing Mr. Daugherty's refusal to testify or permit the Senate Daugherty com- | mittee to_examine the books of the Midland National Bank, Washington Court House, Ohio, of which he is president. He was then arrested and charged with contempt. = s $20,000 Stolen by Bandits. KANSAS CITY., Kan. May 31— Three bandits today held up the cashier and the paying teller of the Arsentine State Bank here and rob- bed them of $20.000 in $10 and $20 bills. The bank officials were taking the mone¥ in an automobile to pay oft workmen. - M.L.BURTON LIKELY TO NOMINATE | COOLIDGE AT G. O. P. CONVENTION Michigan U. President Virtually Certain as Choice. Close to President Since Days as Head of Smith College in Northampton. have had the honor® but notified the Coolidge managers that inasmuch this was his first year at Washing: ton University he thought he must exercises, which fall on the day set aside for nomination at Cleveland. The plan of the Coolidge managers from the first was to choose some one not directly connected with the ad- ministration as an officeholder, and this ideais understood to have been advanced by the President himself. ‘Was Smith College Head. ‘The friendship between the Presi- dent and Dr. Burton dates back to the time when the latter for seven years—from 1910 to 1917—was presi- dent of Smith College at Northamp- ton, Mass., Mr. Coolidge’s home town. Dr. Burton then became president of 1920 has been head of the University uf&lchlsnn. and Mrs, Burton the White House, If Deadlock Should Result Prenntl agreement on No fur- | by | these | meeting of the conferees is expected | for Congress to pass a joint resolu- | would | have to be made also for changing trict government under the reclassi- | In his opinion. Judge | ing the judicial function and that it be present at the commencement day | the University of Minnesota and since | were house guests for several days last winter at gthat any summons was “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 as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 83,153 TWO CENTS. UNCALLED WTNESS TR OUTBIRST I DALCHERTYINQURY A. L. Fink Says Wheeler Got Liquor for Roxie Stinson and Charges Bribery. {AID OF POLICE NEEDED IN RESTORING QUIET { | Gaston B. Means Tells More of Al- | leged Undercover Work for Jess Smith. Senator Fink, who first introduced Wheeler to Roxie Stinsan suddenly became the center of a now | outburst of fireworks today in the Daugherty investigation. while Ga |ton B. Means was rounding out hi long story of undercover transaction and investigations extraordinary Bursting into the committee pr cedurc without invitation, Fink saiu |he wanted to testify how Senato: | Wheeler “got booze for Roxie Stin son” and how Frank A. Vanderlip fered him money to give perjured testimony. The committee was not pr prosecutor himse!f but Chairman | Brookhart re ence with the aid of 1 and Fink departed Later Senator Wheeler asked that he be recalled, but he could not be located, and senator announced his opinion that Pink was “just a liar. | briught in by the T 4s part of a “fra | AL the ena | »n today Ch 3 * cross-exam rman Brookhart 2 | nounced that the committee desire: | to hear former Attorney Genera | Daugherty next Friday ! “'Counsel for Daugherty agreed | communicate with their ent and | advise the chairman whether he could | appear that das w Lodge on Hand. | Means took the stand after Seuator Henry Cabot Lodge had appeared | voluntarily to directly deny any in- ference in previous testimony that he had been concerned in securing whisky permit for Craven Brothers New York. Means later reiterated that he had not charged any wrong- doing on the part of the M chu- setts senator. Repeating under cross-examination his story of how he passed on_ $100.- 000 to Jess Smith from the Mutsu Company, which was interested in the Standard Aircraft claims, Means declared he did not consider at the time whether the transaction was il legal. - = “Had you become suspi¢ious pre vious to this time that Jess Smith had become a crook and was sellin the Attorney Generals infiue Howland demanded. Never Acts on Suspicion. 1 suspicion,” never allow myself to act o Means asserted. “One 10,000 suspicions. 1 asked ss Smith no questions.” You made no report of this to W Burns or anybody in the world? “I've done many, many things with out reportin, “You testified you handled for Smith before thi “Yes, if T had my diaries, I could fix the dates and amounts.” fact upsets 1 J monex Got No Commission. f course, you didn’t get any « mission. You just passed it along “That's right You recall any other money trans- Howland asked. 1 recall $5,000 and $7.000- there was $12,000 once,” Means said T didn’t know what it was all about | Sometimes it was in connection w |the Dembpsey-Carpentier fight pi tures. Jess Smith discussed that.” | “Now. when this Jap knocked on |the door in_the night season and handed you $100,000, it was 8o com- | mon a thing in your young life you didn't take much notice?” asked Paul Howland. “I've had a German knock on my door znd hand me $1.500,000.” returned | Means. “I've been advised frequenti: by lawyers o ask no questions unde such a circumstance—just take it.” Deninl by Lodge. At the outset Senator Lodge made an explicit denial that he had eve: aided in the issue of export liquor permits, as indicated in recent testi mony by Means. The story told by Means was that a permit in which Senator Lodge in terested himself resulted in the ex- port to Canada by Craven Bros. of | consignment of liquor which later | was_landed by smugglers off Atlan tic City. The senator declared, how | ever, that he “never knew of the ex | istenice of Craven Bro | “I never heard of it,” he said. “! | never obtained an export permit anybody ink Causes Disturbance. | The committee then heard |1aunch into his series of charges. Fink shouted that he was “the man Frank Vanderlip tried to give $1,000 for perjured testimony against Pres dent Coolidge,” and that he wanted to tell how Senator Wheeler, the committee prosecutor, “got booze for Roxie Stinson.” | “We_don’t_want your lies,” Chair- man Brookhart thundered back at | him, and Senator Ashurst, Demoerat { Arizons. the only other committes member to1d Fink e crook. Fink present, Was Fink Disappen Senator Ashurst promised to “pui ' him out if ke chairman will allow and Fink left the room before Sena- tor Wheeler entered. A moment later the committee sent for him. Efforts to get him back into the committee room were fruitless. The police reported that he had disap- peared. Fink was the man charged by Misx Stinson, the divorced wife of Jess Smith, ‘with being concerned in an alleged hotel “frame-up” to discredit her. He is at liberty on bail pending trial at Rochester on a charge pre- ferred weeks ago. His intervention in the committee proceedings apparently was a com- plete surprise to committee members. Arising from his place among the spectators, he declared he was under ubpoena. and demanded that he be ¢ heard. The police restored order. Committee members have denied issued for (Continued on Page 1, Column by A