Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1925, Page 13

BROADSIDE AIMED ATD.C. RENT BILL Realty and Business Men in Many Cities Protest Pas- sage of Measure. exp posed the Na eived by Real sident erchants have boen d local real- e the pend- men and or- »us in hold- 1 danger- to the each P but of Congress and the only realtors ar nan sposed bill is and ‘a mena. ave been nk ' owners ap ng th to ¢ against it. while from Denver, Cleveland, Bos- es com il ntinue Fear Effect Elsewhere. enators ane 1 as an s and sted itself ighout tha it the need nger exists.’ sent to from > 1 was also sentatives suils board: damental d the sanctity of courts have which ne- 2 has passed.” r to oppose the bill. nd the Rep- from New Board of East 1t the follow : Real Je Esta nion that this shortsighted and will object sought, but r e n the city of Wash- 1 possibly on the country at reates a dangerous prece- »quest serious considera- request that this legisla- Ington a large and dent. W tion of ou Iinois Board Protests. board in Aurora, 1., has adopt- following resolution: members of the Aurora Board of the city of Au- e to go one rec- st Senate Bill No. 11078, which have the creation of a trol hoard in the mbia. 1 that be detrimental to the f property owners.” n Bethlehem, Pa., sends gram to Represent- from Pennsyl- i1l of Ived that the Bethlehem Real rd strongly opposes legis- ata rent control boards lum- ation violates fun- gives broad powers to regulate a commod- aws of supply and de- mpetent to regulate. It « more perpicious housing that now existing, in he initiative of specu- s and further is inimical ity of contracts.” President, Senators and Rep- of the State of Massa- Roston Real Estate Ex- ommunicated as follows Boston Joins In Attack. slved, that the directors of the Real E Exchange hereby ction that the crea- mmission for the Dis- »sed in Con- owners of resi- in the District, an wnership and tracts, which te the country which would ag- nditions which it al- which it is intended > “solution of the play of en- ot in pub- discourage record th tion of a rent cc trict of ¢ as pro Bingham of mem Meridian % bly opposed | sed for Wash- purpose the rent eountrol for its manen Pa., the Merchant tate F ex- opposition. The Har- nmunicated their r members In Con- s of the sub- constdering Cleveland board cpresentatives in to oppose - the Cleveland board says Ohio, Chamber of nd Chamber of Industry Chamber ‘of Urze Defeat of Bill ai Colo., and the Association there «do members in Con- vigorous opposition Moines a, .board.in_a the Washington Denver, Estate »ndemned sion na comes ge from opolis board that they have Congressmen of their that the Indianapolis nerce, the State Cham- and the.State As- Estate-Boards will op- r of Comi Commerce of Real Kansas City real estate man y 2 ling to the Presi their mbers in Congress to against the proposed rent control legisla- tion. The Baltimore Real Estate Board etates that it has protested the bill to the President and urged Representatives and Senators from Maryland to defeat the measure. w York City board n s opposition to the bill. | | | | ward T. B GROW (Continued from First Page.) Otherwise an investigation by the legislature would be the only to throw light on what Is now 1 obscure ation new Paulen would not n regard to any ac- egislature. he said. “that if the t papers are haven't had time to read investigation of some sary; and If they are then certainly ( Davis an investigation to clear name. ut it is not any watter for me to consider now.’ There is a feeling of some delicacy mong legislators as to launching investigation which would in- volve Gov. Davis, according to Charles S. Holbrook, veteran State presentative from Kansas City, ns. In view of the fact that the t le ture, overwhelmingly Re- publican, had constantly clashed with the executive, he said it was felt that such an investigation might seem to be a partisan move State Has No Grand Jury. Attorney General Grifith suggest- ed a bi-partisan committee of the legislators as the most effective and just method of baring the facts. Kansas has no grand jury, he-sajd, except the county grand juries, which may operate only within their own county borders. The legislature, he pointed out, could pursue a State- wide inquiry Gov. Davis was wholly unaware of any payment of $4,000 by Mrs. W. A. | Nixon, in obtaining a pardon for her | and this week. Nixon had been life term for the murder Great Bend attorney According to tory published in Wichita, Kans.,, Mrs. Nixon had sold her home to R. C. Gates, Democratic State senator from Stafford County, for 34,000, and had used the money to obtain Nixon's pardon. ‘I don’t know what it cost Mrs. Ntxon,” the governor said. “It must have been a large sum, however, as she employed a high priced attor- Sam Amidon, Wichita attorney and Democratic national committeeman sas, represented Mrs. Nixon in arings before Gov. Davis. his son's Friemds See Frame-Up. Judge S. S. Irwin, parole clerk, said today that Pollman’s parole would have expired April 1 this year, thus restoring him to full citizenship. - The governor's friends pointed to this fact in support of their theory that the $1,250 patd by Pollman to Russell Davis was furnished by some other source to “frame” the governor po- litically. Poliman himself, they said, would not have given the amount to obtain a pardon when he had been at liberty two years and would be en- tirely free in a few weeks. In his first statement since his in- volvement in an alleged deal in which ke was sald to have received $1,250 for delivering a pardon, Russell Davis, son of Gov. Jonathan M Davis of Kansas, late today declared his father had known nothing of the affair. Took Money to Governor's Mansion. Young Davis declared he had taken to his own room in the executive man- sion the $1,000 given him as a “first in- stallment” by Fred W. Pollman, par- doned forger. His father had not been aware of the payment, he asserted. The statement follows “In regard to the Pollman pardon, I have no statement to make, other than my father knew nothing about my con- versation that I- had with Pollman down on our farm, in Kansas City or in the National Hotel yesterday until 1 told him about it at about 6:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. “On his and my mother’s account, I regret being so foolish as to be led into such a trap as was set for m “RUSSELL DAVIS, Gov. Davis’ statement follows: “In regard to the published state- ments regarding the pardon issued to Fred W. Pollman, I want to say first that I knew nothing whatever of Mr. Pollman's visit to my son at the farm or his negotiations with my son until 6:30 o'clock yesterday evening. “I had known Pollman, mot inti- mately, but in & general way by repu- tation and my acqualntamce for sev- eral years, some four or five, b;»mnz his bank failed at La Cygne, Kans. ‘Witness at Trial. - ad been called as a character Wl(‘ne}é,“ln his trial when l"ol;xlq‘q_'iln was convicted and had been fami \hl"l more or less, with the facts l;rc;ugnA out at the trial. I had felt t\ra“urv der the circumstances of the fa 1u}: and no one having sufle;eel:dfl:; vnfr a d been no er- his attorney, John Crane, asked me '(3 write a letter to Gov. Allen recon‘“ mending his parole, 1 had done sol = October, 1922. Gov. Allen had parole him in January, 1923. “1 had met and talke: man several times and applied for and I gave e e tiied with me In rogard to a pardon, telling me of some L‘)ad interests in Illinois that he v\(;nne" to develop, that he w(:uld ‘h(\h ):v‘“-i pered in the development until he A;” restored to full citizenship, but at r’\ time had I ever mlk(tfl with him re = garding a money consideration ox a,ml| other sort of consideration in resp:‘ to what 1 might or might not do for him. I never referred him to nnydnr\s who could help to get a p&rhl:n. neither did T éver send any one to him or tell any one to convey any message to him regarding his pardon. Hearing Postjoned. “His case was to have comewup for hearing on the 27th day of December. He wrote me and said he would not be here on that day and I wrote him that the hearing could be held any day that he could come to my office while I was still in office. “When my son asked me what 1 was going to do in the case of Poll- man I told him that I thought, per- haps, I would pardon him, so when he came yesterday and told me that Pollman was in town and would like to have his pardon issued, it occa- sioned no more than passing notice. 1 told him that Mr. Pollman ought to come up here and get it, and he said d with Poll- he afterward | him a con- Buffaloes are used for farm work in Java, that he wanted to avoid the publicity as much as possible, and as Pollman had sald that to mg m‘“utb'. X dig Left to right: George K. Cherrie, Dr. Chester \. Re THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ., JANUARY 1T, 1925—PART 1. dx, Henry ( EVIDENCE IN PARDON SCANDAL , INQUIRY IS DEMANDED not think anything particular and let the boy take a copy pardon down to the hotel to him This was some time about 2 or 2:30, as near as I re 1ber it, in the after. noon “I did see the boy any more until something near 6:30 in the afternoon. He had not said anything to me at any time about Mr. Poliman employing him or giving him or offer- ing him any money. At 6:30 he told me what had happened at the hotel of the Denies Charges. “The statements regarding Glen Davis are untrue where they say that 1 talked to Glen Davis about @ money consideration for his parole and com- mutation, or in respect to a pardon for Pollman. Poliman had first called my attention to Glen Davis as an inmate of the penitentiary and had taken quite an interest in him and mentioned him frequently to me. The board of administration had also been attracted to Davis by his outstanding work in the institution “Davis had been about my office in and out for al days about the time I issued his parole and commu- tation. The board of admiuistration, as I remember, had recommended a full and complete pardon, but 1 did not think his case warranted that action and so had given him a parole with eommutation to 20 years. He was dissatisfied apparently with this, at least, he ved about a day or two trying to persuade me to give him more of a cut. “This I want to reiterate, considered Glen Davis' commutation on the merits of the se and gave him what I thought the record cated he ehould have, without any thought at any time of any money consideration, and that I considered Pollman’s case on its mer- its and the Information I had regard- ing it, without any knowledge or thought or consideration of a mone- tary nature, &0 that while some of the st. nts in the story are true, they have been able build up enough falsehoods and by taking advantage of my friendship for Pollman and Davis and of the unsophisticated na- ture of my son to inveigle him into some indiscreet acts. I am sure he aid not realize the gravity of his ac- tions or he would have consulted me and b iliation. that T parole and n saved from the humi Says Hearings Open. “I have held these parole hearings at all ti s with an open door and at no tim and in no case have I been influenced by the payment of any money ¢ 2 stre a full-and complete in- vestigation of all the records and files In the parole cases I have gone over will show just basis for the de- c n reached In each case.” An unconditional p; on was grant- od late today by Gov. Davis to Mrs. Mary K. Eggleston of Larned, recently convicted of plotting to poison her aged suitor, Dave F Mrs. Eggleston was sentenced to serve an indeterminate term_of 2 to 20 years in the State penitentiary. She has been at liberty on bond, how- ever, pending hearing of an appeal by the Supreme Court. SAYS DAVIS ASKED MONEY. Former Convict Charges Pardon Plea Without Fee Failed. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Mo., January 10.— Glenn A. Davis, tallor-instructor at, the Hutchison, Kansas, reformatory, relates in an affidavit made public by the Kansas City Journal-Post here tonight, that Gov. Jonothan M. Davis of Kansas, refused his request for a pardon from the Kansas State penitentiary, after he had rejected a request of the governor for mone The affidavit states also that Glenn A, Davis, who Is at liberty on parole after having served pari of a-sen- tence for murder, acted as the gover- nor's agent in an attempt to collect 2 $1,250 bribe from Fred W. Pollman, who sought a pardon. from the gov- ernor. Pollman was at liberty on pa- role. He was convicted of forgery in connection with the failure of the La Cygne, Kansas, bank. Asked for Pardon. On December 18, 1924, the affidavit states, Glenn A. Davis went to the governor's office in Topeka and ask- ed for a pardon. “What are you going to do for me?" the governor is quoted at ask- ing. “I replied,” Davis'. statement A Train to Catch? CALL WEST 84 “IT’S A RED TOP” ENDLESS CAVERNS EXPLORING PARTY IN WASHINGTON ins Walsh, Dr. Robert M. Keely and Col. Ed- asserts, “th at all; that of money $100.” “The governor told' me, he was hard up; that he was in a worse fix than 1 was” the afdavit continyes “He said one fuvor calls for another and he told he thought maybe I would do a little something for him. “I told him I was sorry—that he should have told me a year ago, when I was up for parole and had plenty of money. ‘He asked me a I didn’t have any on out to the governor's mans I bade him good night” The following morning, according to Glenn A. Davis, the governor told him he thought he could depend upon a 20-year commutation and a per- manent parole. When Davis insisted upon a pardon, the applicant was requested to obtain a letter from the board of administration, and this he says he did. The letter, he states, recommended a pardon. When he presented the letter to the governor, Davis avers that the governor tossed it aside and said that he had decided to adhere to his original intention. Davis declares he still insisted upon a pardon and that, in the course of ensuing conversation, the governor referred to Pollman, “He sald Pollman statement that. he had everything fixed for a pardon, but that he was out of luck,” the affidavit resumes. “He told me he would like to have me go to Kansas City and tell Jliman that. I told him 1 would g0 and asked him what gort of m sage he wan Pollman The governor told me to advise Pollman to ‘employ one of my agents’ if he wanted things done. I asked him who his agents were and how much money It would take 1 wanted to be sure to mend the best agent Pollman would take his farm and employ would get what he pald a great deal what his boy sald. it Pollman did this he t at my case in a different light. governor advised me to be ¢ talked to Pollman.” The affidavit then led to tell Pollman tle He falled to get in touch wit Pollman on his arrival in Kans City, Davis said, and telephoned to Ben C. Johnson, whom he had known an officer at the ansing. Davis stated, and mission to Johnson. touch with Pollman, went to Pollman’s I didn’t have any amount except my monthly check a8 sure We walked on and had made the recom- down that he as he $1,250 his boy wanted, of attention The and all the affidavit states. “The next day, to Gov. a letter telling said.” On that da went back to adding that the disappointed. I went to Hutchinson,” what the December 20, opeka, Davis governor asserts. 19 Heren, Post, visited me. and Johnson that letter to the had seen the friend he wished see and had conveyed his message. That letter was written day; December 23, 1924." LECTURE ON TRAPPERS. Comdr. Edward Breck, U. . mer -war correspondent and prominent Johnson and Walter G. naturalist, will address a meeting of the Huniane Education Society Tuesday aft- ernoon in the gold room of the Shore- ham Hotel. ildn’t do anything and that He told me if to to He also said that look careful asserts that he exact as penitentiary at He went to Johnson's home, communicated his He later got in three room, where Davis ve Pollman the governor's message, continues the af- fidavif, “Pollman told me to go back Davis and tell him I had not found Poliman and asked me to write Governor 1924, he seemed to the af- continues, “there on December reporter for the Journal- I promised Pollman I would write a Governor telling him 1 me to Christmas N.. for- ENDLESS CAVERNS - EXPLORING BEGUN Scientists Seek End of New Market, Va., Passage- ways. Begun, no man knows when; end, man knows where.” This mystic phrase, often applied to the Endless Caverns, at New Market, Va., has s0 aroused the curiosity of members of the Explorers Club of America that they have determined to find out, if humanly possible, not only when' these picturesque under- ground rooms and passageways had their beginning, but where they have their ending. The {nvestigation will begin today. It will be taken part in by a group of membgers of the club experfenced in probing strange fastnesses of the globe, from the frozen Arctic wastes to the tropical jungles. Party Stops Here. Led by Henry Collins Waleh, founder of the club and organizer of the present expedition, the party made a hurried stop-over in Wash- ington yesterday afternoon en route to the caverns. They were joined here by Col. Edward T. Brown, local attorney, who owns the caves and much of the surrounding territory. Capt. Robert A. Bartlett, noted Arctio explorer, who was to have been a member of the expedition, was forced at the last moment to with- draw because of the necessity of making preparations for another polar trip, Mr. Walsh stated during a brief interview with newspaper men at Union Station between trains. With Mr. Walsh were George K. Cherrie, who was with Roosevelt in South» America; Dr. Robert M. Keely, surgeon on one of Peary's Arctlc ex- peditions; Dr. Chester A. Reeds, as- sociate curator of geology, American Museum of Natural History, and Maj. Edward M. Brown, son of Col. Brown Carveth Wells, recently returned from the Malay Peninsula and from Lap- land, met the others in Charlotts ville. no Data May Be Valuable. Wonderful possibilities of obtain- Ing valuable scientific data lie ahead the party as an Incentive, Mr. Ish asserted at the station yester- When the caverns first were discovered some 40 years ago there were found bones of a bear, strange bones not Identified to this day, a number of Indian relics and similar interesting objects. Mr. Walsh be lleves that further probing of the mysterfous depths and recesses as yet unexplored by man may uncover some highly valuable facts regarding the prehistoric character of the Shenan- than illustrate the His subject will be on con- | that the cave the years ago. the dinosaur and si malian creatures of prehistoric times. At several times during of the epochs of. time the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah section has been b neath great seas. changes have passing of the ages, and science be- lieves that possibly there main to this day Some concrete e dences of the almost intangible past. plained a distance to mi and that t terranean passages neyer befor The party O 0 0 AR A RSO AT e WRIGHT o FURNITURE Always Right i Quality and Price by man 13 AMERICA’S CHAMPION FOOD DEMONSTRATORS The young women above are employed hy some of America’s leading food manufacturers ay factory representatives and demonstrators. They telling visitors to the natlonal food show and househlod exposition at Con- vention Hall all about maticually advertised goods. Left to right, they are: Miss Glorin Burroughs of the Tetley Company, Miss Dorothy Townsend of the | Mrs. Josephine Willls of McCormack & Co., Mrs. Tona P. Sperry, Jell-O Company, and Miss Alice Birman of the Baker Com- pany. John Heppe, known to Coney Islanders ax the “Millionaire Candy Kid,” In front. John Heppe organizatio doah Valley region and tants. Dr. Reeds pointed out that a ge logical study of the region indicates ns were formed during period, That was Tertiar; Appenrs to Have No End. “The caverns at present really ap- pear to have no end,” Col. Brown “We have exploged them to of about a mile and & quarter under Massanutten Mountain but methods and equipment possible gers ahead, we have been upable to penetate further. “I ar because combat in fa taken of of the opinion th erns extend to great dist nto the mo nclude its inhabi- ceéding, and set to out obstructing mountable obst one dircction, the p new ‘tack’ and be caverns now opened a train of oft with stalactites A stream trickles do cle 0,000 mam- some 2,0 in the da ilar huge the passing Gigantic geologic place with the parts of the cave.” for Staunton, Va., a remaining 44 miles by automobile. Mr. actual delving will may re- that the called time, x- tunity. lack of with unforeseen scientific | which dan- $19,000,000 ] invested ment the cav many ase, th about rnment not s no many located do ca them of qot be trod will look the sit- | ks work prese arty 1f nt great rooms, and s and beg! in at n Ish said and continue until January 14. important headway has been expedition off for the time be resumed at the first favorable g, Carelessness Is Costly. In the United States there a no securiti longer at $500,000 annu, uation over, map out a plan for pro- on Workmen will be brought in to chisel sur- 1t welrdly dlagmites. | i length of | ¢ the passageways from the unexplored The party left Washington by trair travele 3t in tomorrow | 1 de il to oppor- the owners BORAK SUPPORTS COOLIDGE GUN IDEA Backs President in Opposi- tion to Elevation on Battleships. President the battlesh Senator Coolidge’s positi f the strongly posi elevation gu supported of the commlitte: in a statement issued yesterday after the same to peint to the ng ther dis without delay the by Senate Borah, chafrman foreign relations noon nator Borah at | time took oceasic advisabil ca anc ari He said | “It I understand 1dgge’s position relativ. tion of the guns, I most sincerely } support that positt I think that we ought not to take the chances of attering the whole disarmamen ovement and opening up another great naval race on account minor matters. The question of gun ation is not wholly unimportant but it is not portant as that of serving and advancing the cau armament. 1f her naval s started it ought to be ason of any fault of ours or by reason of doubt constructio part | Better to Walve Technicalities. | | President Cool to the eleva re upon ou ce.| gy h better that something which te itled to is mu we waive the any § icatios r treat | o inj e a | ght bhe e aty than to er for “It see ituation ¢ s to me, however, that this alls for more speedy action er d ament con treaty be made nite the lght ion, more perhaps n those y. It ts we cannot e inittative ment con to have dertake to lesson in thi r the his rliaments ¢ calling anot feren certain and def of expe and o effe we include covered can = and th t for Europe to tak reference to a disarm the conferen to u solve these ir We can gather at matter between hat nol i be be erenc on the H 905 Seventh Street N.W. 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