Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1925, Page 1

Rain tonight row morning, and followed Temperatures- today: lowest, | | 1 Highest, | gFull report on page WEATHER. S. Weather Burcau ¥ possibly by colder tomorrow afternoon at 9 pun. yesterday. orecust. tomor fair and 1 and night 44, at noon Closing N. Y. Sto« ks and Bonds, Page 24 No. 29,819. JhieChée inte.ed as second Vashington, class matter DC, Che WASHINGTON, Foen WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, MONDAY, COURT OPPONENTS ABSURD IN CLAINES, * WALSH DEGLARES Is Not League’s “Depart- ment of Justice,” Senator Says in Debate. DENIES U. S. INTERESTS MUST BE SACRIFICED| Krim’s Peace Envoy T'o Arrive in Paris Today With Letter By the Associated Press. PARIS, December 21 don Canning, recently be carrying peace te from Abdel-Krim, the Moroccan chief tain, is expected to arrive in Paris today. It is stated in_official however, that he brings no other document than a letter from Ahd el Krim saying he is authorized to ask what conditions of peace were wzreed upon by France and Spain during their conferences on the Morocean question. Capt. Canning has no ment with any officials French government. | | Cant. Gor reported to ms circles, appoint of the Finds Parallel for Tribunal's Deci-; sions in Equity Verdicts Ren- | dered in America. ULD LINCOLN. is absurd of the World opinfons as department BY G. Declaring that “it of jurisdiction to deliver advisory king of the court a \stice of the League of Natio sh of Montana today sition to adherence of the | World Court in | the court ration in | o at- | ates to the a4 address me up last Pepper since conside day. Pennsylvania, Senator Walsh, announced {ntention to support adherence to | 1 Court in accordance with rended to the Senate by | President Pepper welieved-it would be section of the iding_for advisory suld, however, that wise to amend | wan: resolu- | adberence which | opinion rendered pro; tes to the court lie Pennsylv h the views rees With Others. 1 Senator disacreed those who argne | that the World Court and the Levsue of Nations are unrelated But the question is not whet are related or unrelated, but r such relation as there is con-! tutes a real obstacle to adherence,” | id Senator Pepper. I think it does if this matter of advisory opinion | be disposed of along the line I| ive suggested. Senator Pepper criticized Sena wanson of Virginia for spending uch time indorsing the league anc rophesying our entrance into it” in the Virginia Sena- x| n Y # speech made by - last week. “That course ma <tocle of the league in a falllng ma ket,” said Senator Pepper, “but i certainly tends to depress the stock of | e court.” “The league has its nized legal bureau,” said Senator Walsh, “at the head of which is an minent lawyer of Holland, a coun- tey identified with the development of international law since Grotius first expounded its principles three cen- turies ago. “In its constantly expandin ties it js found nec tain_a staff lawvers hand, to whom it turns for counsel. | help sustain the own well-or- g a Explains Procedure. when a S tens, or a Csented that may eventuate in suc the rights of the parties uetermined, that 3 to the court for h is not given privi argument according to f the Department of a full hearing and onl n uniess author A tely ours \pinion nd without u open court. “It is_true the til s advisory. ach of the an = natic ventured to prestige of the court rows, growing, the arded will has the gives and less Walsh the in our nu s it being disr insisted that the court is substantially ing advisory opinions s cf Great Britain and aber the American nonncing declaratory sdgments, a procedure by which par- secure an interpretation of a con- ret or an adjudication of their rights legal relations in advance of each and as a guide to thelr action + procedure quite like that by which court of cquity pr sates an au- thoritative constu Senator same < that quite a tates in pr Thinks Fears Unwarranted. the effects of the exercise of tha jurisdiction to render advisory cpinions must be either feigned or a reaction of ultra-conservatism.” con tinued Senator Walsh. et the: whoe cond some concrete situation would be iniper Senate Walsh's idress said, was to tell “what the as his address last week s to what it is not.”” le set up the prop- tion that the constitution of the World Court is the statute creating it, which it is now proposed the United ites become a signatol It is not, aid, the covenant the League Nations or the treaty of Ve ailles the assertion reck- nd so mendaciously re- statute, he said. roval of the nations | Fear . n point which it in our interest court cont so eatod, made The 16, 192 opponent thy to peint to a situation in interests the United be imperiled through ad- ry opinion by the World Court. senator Walsh said they invariably bad recourse to the Monroe doctrine. for ber Vhen challe which s of court are The es wo Sees Liberty Assured. f the United States.” said Sen- ator Walsh, “should become involved | in a controversy with another na- ion, a feature of which was the Mon- | - ‘doctrine, we remain, though the ! stocol be signed. at perfect liberty submit or not to submit the dis- to the court, and the other party ould not bring it befc the court hrough the ageney of a request by councik or the assembly of the | ieague of Nations of an advisory | pinion, nor could either of those | odies on the initiative of any other irelia case, In which it declined to the council an opinion touching a ‘ was held hy the court that its irisdiction depended upon the con-| feet brought before the court unwill- Zly by means of a request from ~ague, it was held, had bound them- i ition. The court has so held in what | heen known as the astorn | troversy between Russia and Fin- nd. the former declining to appear. nt of the parties and that a nation | ol having consented could not be in {her branch of the league for an ad- ory opinion. Members of the o {this time, he asserted that “it wonld | ARMY FIGHT LOOMS | typical | before a special board GREEN PLEDGES AID T0 MINERS IN FINSH FIGHT Says Owners’ Attitude Con-1 stitutes Challenge to Whole | A. F. of L. | Backing up his appeal to xanized labor bodies in the States to give the striking miners financial tance, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, declared tcd that the federation stands ready an organization to do everything in power to help the United Mine Workers' bring their fight to a suc- cessful conclusion. Despite the fact that it is well known that large groups of working | men, including some of the mine themselves, are not in sympathy with the latest anthracite war, Mr. Green | said he was certain the membership | of the Federation of Labor would re- | all or- United anthracite | | + humanitarian standpoint, if not as 1+ definite sign of their faith in the! cause for which the miners are fight- | ing. | Challenge to Labor. unrelenting attitude of the an mine owners, Mr. Green \dded, “constitutes a challenge to U whole membership of the American | Tederation of Labor i thruelt " and he express. ed firm belief that this stand toward heir employes iind “their indifference to public necessity cannot fail to rouse the generous spirit of organ- ized labor.” The appeal was address ed direct to 35,900 local unions | Although Mr. Green said it is not | contemplated that the federation will | do “anything radical or drastic” at shame If the anthracite miners | be a to their jobs | were obliged to return it their old wage scales after being out of work for four months.” To prevent such o situation, he sald, the Fedsration of Labor will lend the United Mine Workers its unlimited | co-operation. Mr. Green added that can Federation of Labor 10 address its appeal to all local unions by John L. Lewis. dent of the United Mine Worke Before acquescing, the labor leader | said, w careful investigation was mude to determine whether such a request to the working men just be- | fore Christmas would be justified This investigation disclosed that ft| was, ti Distress is Evident. i do not mean to say that there | is lack of money throughout the an- thracite coal fields,” Mr. Green ex- plained. “There is actual distress in | come nplaces, however, and miners | and their families in those places need help, and need it quickly. Around Hazleton, Shamokin and similar places, I belicve the miners are still in fairly prosperous condition. But it 15 for those who do need help that our appeal is addressed. News that the miners were in need came as a distinet surprise to per- sons here who familiar vith con- ditions in_the anthracite field. Onl two months ago, fmpartial investiga- tion disclosed that they were enjoying exceptional prosperity, despite ~the fuct that they had at the time of the investigation been idle for more than two months. A single bank in a miners’ town showed that whereas §3,000,000 had been deposited | in savings on the day before the ke was called, only $150.000 had ‘ontinued on Page 2. Column 5.) RETIRED BRITISH OFFICER HELD AT ELLIS ISLAND Capt. Fortune to Be Questioned by Special Board—Reason Not Disclosed. Assoiated Press EW YORK, December Capt. dney . Fort vetired British officer. who has spent the past irs on the graves coumission Near ust, is being detained by 1sland of for guestioning Capt. Fortune arrived on the Ansonia yesterday. The reason for his detention has not_been made public. He said that he had been detained after informing the authorities that his wife had divorced him in 1918. Divorced per- cons are not excluded from the United States. immigration officlals said, but the testimony offered in the case mizht have some bearing on his de- tention. the st cials SIS | such LEGISLATURE CALL INTEXAS REFUSED BY HOUSE SPEAKER Satterwhite Dodges Special Session to Seek Impeach- ment Evidence. | DECLARES ACTION SHOULD{ WAIT NEW DEVELOPMENT | ) Sees Complication of Litigalioni i | | Against Highway Construc- tion Companies. Ass AUSTIN, Tex.. December Lee Satterwhite, speaker of the Texas House of Representative today clined to call a special session of the Legislature. The session had been sought for | leggislatd ascertain if } evidence on which to file impeachment charges. Gov. Mirlam A Ferguson said her enemies were try- ing to find something against her and declined to call the session. | Sees Move as Unwise. { Satterwhite declared it unwise to issue a summons for an extraordinary session at present, as it might com plicate litigation filed by Attorney General Dan Moody against sol hy some thefe was to { me | | highway construction companies. The | | call should awalit future developments, he said. e speaker's statement referred o | opinfons from the torney general, i given some time ago, that any session called by other than the governor would luck authority to appropriate to defray expenses and that | expense could not be financed | ate or individual sources his made it cessary for each member the House to pay his own cxpenses in event a session thus was ri .1spond to the appeal for funds from | called, and thereafter more than a| | majority signified their willingness | to pay their own expenses i Fears Complications. frer giving careful considera- | I the legal complications and that the Attorney General has not been able to conclude the suits ! involving the matters to be considered | in the event such a session is called, ind deeming it this _litigation have reached the conclusfon that the call should not be issued at this time, but should wwait future developments,” the | Speaker said Gov. Ferguson declined to | “But unwise to co: 1 plicate com- ment on the speaker's decision. P { ON CHEMICAL ISSUE :‘Fries’ Attack on Treaty May Bring Action Further Muzzle Officers. to BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Another row is coming to the sur-| face In the Army. It has been brew- | ing for some time and it will raise acutely the question of just how much free speech there is in the military service of the United States, i any. | The test comes on the attitude of | the Chemical Warfare Service of the | Army, which has seen fit to question | the wisdow of the Department of | State in signing a protocol banning | chemical warfare. Maj. Gen. Amos chief of the Chemical War- ice, is animated solely by the | > to place before the public his | conception of the problem. He has done it respectfully by furnishing| Washington correspondents with data | relating to chemical warfare. ie has not done what Col. did, namel another ment of has simply amine the Mitchell to accuse the officials of | department of the Govern- ! iling to do their duty. He | asked the public to ex-| ther side of a moot ques- | tion. Yet the effect of his act is to| ask Congress to reject the protocol signed at the direction of the Presi- | dent of the United States through the | Department of Stat Davis Intends to Act. It has been implied that the Sec-! retary of State und the Secretary of War must reconcile their differences, or the President will have to take | sides. Today, however, the Asso-| ciated Press carries an article at-| tribu g to Secretary of War Davi: a desire to put an end to friction in. side the Army and speaks of his in- tention to curb the tendency of some officers to combat policies ome of which “are written into international treaties, Undoubtedly there are other sore; spots in the Army, but the trouble | over the chemical warfare policy is | the outstanding one. Mr. Davis has therefore served notice that he does not side with Gen. Fries, and that he | will not permit officers of the Army to | combat policies of other departments, at least not in the public prints. If they have recommendations or criti: | ‘ontinued on Page 2, {Blanton Opens Bitter Attack Against Peace-Time Courts-Martial Speaking in support of his own res- olution to abolish peace-time military courts-martial, which he offered as a result of the Mitchell trial, Repre- sentative Blanton, I)Pmm‘m(._ol Texas characterized the Mitchell trial as “a cruel and terrible wrong, in which a Jealous, conceited general staff of the Army had conspired with an egotis- tical, equally jealous general stail of the Navy to inflict upon Gen. ‘Billy’ Michell.”” Mr. Blanton cited other ‘“recent farces,” including several local cases, one of which was a trial in which Maj. Henry M. Butler, UI. 8. M. C. A wnk which. Mr. Blanton said, “President Coolidge had to flay one court.” Mr. Blanton, In charging that Nav pec.cetime court-martials were “equally farcical,” discussed at length the action of Secretary Wilbur in charg- ing that First Lieut. Andrew L. W. Gordon, U. 8. M: (., judge advocate at the trial of Miss Ruth Anderson and Miss Katherine C. Glancy, Navy nurses, charged with importing liquor into the United States on a transport, did not try to convict the women. Mr. Blanton also referred to the clash of opinion between Secretary Wilbur and ‘Controller General Me- Carl elniming that Wilbur | mecretaries Mellon, Work, Hoover a Pstill b DECEMBER < 1, MAY BE The SHORTEST DAY IN THE _Ne AR To SON! DECEMBER 21 1925 -THIRTY-EIGH iny Star. The Star every city | tion is delivered to W as fast as th “From Press to Home Within the Hour” 's carrier system covers slock and the regular edi- shington homes he papers are printed. Saturda, Sunday " y's Circulation, s Circulation, 98,119 108,511 PAGES. * ! MOVING OF OFFICES 10 BE DISCUSSED Public Buildings Commission to Decide on Location of Scattered Bureaus. Disposition of bureaus of the ury, Interior, Departments, now housed in bufldings outside the main structures occupled by these departments, will be decided upon at a meeting of the Public Build ings Commission, to be attended by a Davis, within a fortnight. Meeting ir the office of Senator Smoot of today, the Public Buildings Commis sion discussed in all detalls the pro Josed general Government office tr fers mainly affecting the Interior De partment and voted to tnvite the tour members of the cabinet to meet with the commission and thrash out all the matters involved in the broad trans. ter scheme. The commission did not reach any conclusfons with regard to the pro josed transfer of the Pension Bureau into the Interfor Building, nor the suggested move of the Labor Depart ment to the Pension Office Building It took up in detail in executive sex sion the entire question of new public buildings bill for Government structures in Washingion and agreed on the manner of its presentation to Congress. Labor Department Objects. A letter written by the Labor De- partment to Senator Smoot disap- proving the transfer of that depart- | ment to the Pension Office Building was dizcussed. The letter pointed out that the Pension Office is unsuited to Labor Department uses without much change in the structure of the rooms The commission also announced completion of the lease for the build- ing occupied by the Department of Justice at Fifteenth and K streets for $100,000 annually with an arrange- ent under which the department give up the building whenever it desires Lieut. Col. C. O. Sherrill the commission, who is leaving® Washington to Become city manager of Cincinnati, was accompanied to the meeting today by Maj. Ulysses Grant, 3d, who is expected {o succeed him Maj. Grant was made executive officer of ‘the commission. Announcement was made of the appointment of Rep- resentative Fritz G. Lanham of Texas to the public buildings body. a member Approve Proposed Change. Although the commission took no formal action on the Pension Office transfer, members were virtuall unanimous in voicing their approval of the move declaring that it would bring all the Interior Department activities, outside of its eleemosynary institutions, under one roof. Opinion was said to be divided on the trans- fer of the Labor Department to the Pension Office Building. Bureaus of the Treasury and Com- merce Departments now occupy space in the Interior Building, while the Commerce Department is space to consolidate many of its eight bureaus outside the main build- “ing in one or two Government-owned structures. Both the Labor ment and Commerce main buildings at Nineteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue and 1712 G street; respectively, are rented from private individuals. Moving of all the activities not con- nected with the Interior Department from the Interfor Building is contem- plated in the scheme for Government consolidation. Depar MEDIATION WITH U. S. STILL AIM OF RUSSIA Tchitcherin Reiterates Country's Willingness to Enter Into Negotiations on Difference. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, December 21.—Discussing the Soviet's foreign relations, Foreign { Minister Tchitcherin is quoted by the Gierman newspapers as saying: “We are ready at any time to en- ter into negotiations with the Ameri- can Government for settlement of the existing differences. We attach the greatest importance to our economic relations with the United States, but these are only capable of develop- ment if diplomatic relations between the countries are restored. “When Mr. Coolidge assumed the Presidency we announced our readi- ness to enter into frank discussion of all contestable issues. This offer reids good.! seeking | SNOW-CLAD YULE’I—‘IDE POSSIBLE, AYS WEATHER MAN DOUBTFULLY gSomflhing Is on Way Here, But Whether Rain, Hail L . . | mi | reas. Commerce and Labor | sih v dle Fr W lig “ta Utah | er W en den ing or Snow. He Declines to Prognosticate. May Be Late, Anyway. * the Weather heavenward toda’ reports -and isother ¢ maps from over the Nation, and nounced with some trepidation t a white Christmas for Wash- and this vicinity was a pos Burean St their eves rveved the bility Unsettied weather er the Ohio Valley and the Mid- West, is expected to arrive here » Saturday, bringing eithe w. Ohio and other Mid- States now are getting a ht blanket of snow in places. Win is fore, for Washington night, with fair and colder weath- expected hy Wed y. The eather Bureau was not at ail posi- today, however. that if snow is route here it wiil arrive in time. id in or s 15t esd Yuletide spirit was in abundant evi- ice here today, with thousands | |ed by prevalent | | making | statement last minute issued by nd Manufacturers' dicted that today record for Chri The local buvers have been augment- Washingtonlans who have been tway attending school or on business. Government fleld agents returning here for the hLolidays added to the throngs The Merchants and Manufacturers' Association asked that Christmas purchases. A the Merchants Association pre ales would reach Monday before the | shoppers get to town as early as pos sible in order to save their own time ell us to lessen the jams later in dax¥- which are wearing the nerves ks and traffic policemen to a shred. “The Washington public has shop- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) | |Bi PARIS | Minister Doumer introduced a bill in | STOP.GAP CREDITS ASKED BY DOUNER I Tantamount to Admis- sion Budget Cannot Be Passed at Once. Associated Press. December t Finance |the Chamber of Deputies today call- | ing | L sio l.qh | | | this uary | This vear. Doumer's first care is to balance | - the French budget. the special fonal for prov the coun credits to carry for Jan- busines - is tantamount ¢ n that the 1926 budget cannot pos- Iy Fe voted before the end of the 1ie intends t s, it is asserted, by the yield t do 4, by increasing the price of tobacco, by applying the business turnover tax | sold for export, which hith- | | to | ert £00 0 have been exempt, and by in- creasing the rate of the same tax on sal { nec | in | in on | | iy | pyi ane is meat These measures will be embodied | Doumer will sub- | mit to the cabinet. by the ministers it will be introduced | government MANDATE PLA gested In London, he said. added that Japanese troops are occu- i made to force the Canadian govern- es at home, except in the case of -essities of life, such as bread, and other foodstuffs. a bill which M. If it is approved the Chamber of Deputies and the will stake its existence a favorable vete upon fit. N RIDICULED . Japan Insists Manchurian Neutral- ity Policy Is Permanent. TOKIO. December 21 (#).—Japan’s policy of neutrality in Manchuria is a Department | permanent suggestion that Japan be granted a Manchurian | into the question of a proposed em- mandate 1s unthinkable, a foreign of- | bargo by Canada on pulp wood. e spokesman extreme Chauvinists and, therefore, the London_newspaper one, of a aid today never step as far reaching proposed that sug- ing Mukden at present for the pur pose of protecting lives and property. d there is no intention of keeping troops there as soon as the situation settled. 1P00000000000000000000000000 | ¥ 0000000000000 0000 “Monte Carlo” The Thrilling New Novel By E. Phillips Oppenheim Begins On Page 33 Of Today’s Star “Thin Ice,” by Hazel Deyo Batchelor, also be- gins today on page 29. 0000000000000 00000000000000: 0000000000 000000000000¢ an admis- | m | xation voted December | It was | Cven the | committee representing the American l HOUSE T0 PROBE BRITISH RUBBER Inquiry Into Charges of Ef- fort to Mulct U. S. to Pay War Debt Is Ordered. By ated Press Investigation of an alleged ion by the British colonial gover ment of the price of crude rubber and | other raw materials was ordered today by the Hou: A resolution directing the House commerce committee to conduct the inquiry was adopted without a roll call vote after Representative Hull ot Tennessee, former chairman of t Democratic national committee, had ! harged Great Britain with acting in| bad faith” in the matter. “The British government is laugh ing out loud at us,” Mr. Hull said. “Tt is openly proclaiming that it intend. 10 collect $4,000,000,000 from us in in- | creased rubber prices to pay its war | debt. H “FEurope is laughing up its sleeve! t the way we are being held up for [ rubber.” was introduced by the Ass The resolution Representative Tilson of Connecticut, | the Republican leader, after a confer. | ence with Secretary Hoaver. Tilson Supports ‘Hull. Representative Tilson _supported Mr. Hull's position, declaring the| British hoped to pay their war debt | by the Increased prices before this| country could develop a source of | supply for the crude produets. i Besides inquiring into the situation | facing this country in the rubber | problem, the committee also will in-| quire into the situation with respect to nitrates, potash, quinine, iodinem tin, sisal, quicksilver, wood pulp and | other important raw materfals. | Pulp Wood Issue Up. The committee is expected to go Al pulp and paper manufacturers has | been investigating the question and| has charged that an attempt is being | ment to stop pulp wood exportation and thus force American operators to move their mills to Canada. Canadian manufacturers were charged by the committee with back- ing the proposal, which, if success- ! ful, “would impose a financial tax on every American who reads a news- paper, who subscribes to a magazine, or buys a book. MAY ACT ON FENNING. Senate May Consider Nomination Today—O0. K. Seen. The nomination of District Commis- sioner Frederick A. Fenning may be acted upon by the Senate today if there is opportunity for an executive session. The subcommttee headed by Sena- tor King of Utah, which considered the nomination, is understood to have decided on a favorable recommenda- tion. There was no organized opposi- tion to confirmation and the subcom- mittee found nothing to justify the holding of hearings. | of the Shenandoah disaster, Col las | Bible the advice of his counsel, C miediately | clusion: | reports he had i contained the conclusions of oth [roded before, () Means Associate Scientist Leaves Brain to Experls To Solve Problem the Assoc SALEM, M: The brain of Prof. ter Morse, noted zoology, who died here was removed today express to the Wistar Anatomy and Biology phia. This action accordance with by Prof. Morse it be examined relation, if brain and bis hands which him ambidextrous. Prof. was able to use either equal skill. MITCHELL RENEWS DIRIGIBLE CHARGE Appears in Shenandoah Probe Against Counsel’s Advice, He Says. od Press Decernber Bdward S athority vesterday, by 1 21.- Ives and It i was sent itute Philadel s taken i lef that th hi Mor hand with who desired 1etions between Answering a subpoena his published statements on the cau Wil- liam Mitchell appeared before the naval court inquiry today and renewed his charges that the dirigible was overweight and that calcium chloride and the reduction of safety valves played a leading part in its destruction. After standing up against « two-hour barrage of questioning by Maj. Henry Leonard. U M. C; court judge advocate, the airman was turned over to the Shenandoah sur vivors represented at the court, but these officers, through t spokes- man, Lieut. Comdr. C. I. Rosendahl, senior surviving officer, refused to ex amine him, explaining Col. Mitchell’s knowledge was “‘not expert.” of Statement Is Rejected. Accompanied only by Mrs. hell, the colonel appeared before the court the first witness at the fourth session andgprepared (o re te ment, in which he had determination not to testify the sentence placed upon hi recent Army general courtr bas not vet been approved He was prevented from reading statement by Rear Admiral Hila Jones, president of the court Maj. Leonard, w sert ment at that time would not be priate. Admiral Jones proffered to Col. Mitchell, declaring would take the same stand as on O tober 7, when he insisted the witness be sworr Explaini i v and he g he was acting Mitchell 1bmitted to being swor d was put under examination by . Leonard he trial judge ad t his griliing dwelt personal knowle the Shenandoa ch the airman b expression. The held to the point t ¢ the Shenandoni leading up to the disaster were hased on his long period of air training, published st.tements, reports, ki edge of air conditions and his con in general were drawn from received and \hich M wose in publi Knew Antifreeze Dange ol Mitchell declared he knew leium chloride was used as an unti mixture in the radiators of the s engines, and that it s.ade no difference if this solution wa: wrried on the t, the dirigi- ble's members would have been cor would have had I the same effect. His explanation of the published September & froy tonio, Tex.., that the diri as 50 per cent overweight, was that he operating standard was reduced by figure. The Shenandoah had been gned for hydrogen use, he suid and helium, with a less lifting power, had been employed. Further, he de lared, one engine had been removed. n larger radio set had been installed and these changes had “reduced it in obility, including weight, and it should not have been sent out on such a dis tant mission.” Pressed for statement San An mora amplification of his statement, Col. Mitchell replied: I know what you are getting at. You've had testimony here that she was only per cent overweight. I think it was much more than that.” Asked of Knowledge. Asked for his positive knowledge that the ship was 50 per cent over weight, the witness replied he had a “sneaking suspi that this was true."” “Then you were willing to alurm the country on that information?” asked Maj. Leonard. “Yes.” replied Col. Mitchell. “It's a4 public question and not one con fined to the services. 1 intended the public to believe she was 50 per cent ceduced in_ ability, including weight. The last mission showed the ship was inadequate for such a_dangerous trip. Under certain conditions she would have been able 0 get back. but under others she didn’t get back. With her reduced operating radius <he might have gotten back with one hour's fuel, like the Los Angeles did when she went to Bermuda. The point T want to make is thet she was an experi- mental ship and should have been kept at the home station.” Still unsatisfied with the witnes: explanation of the overweight gues jon, Maj. Lecrard asked him if he had any fact or statistics in knowledge which would indicate such condition. ‘I will_have evidence,” repied Col. Mitchell. “I am not satisficd with what has been vresented.” Defends Knowledge. “Is it a fact you have no knowledge about the Shenandoah?” pursued Maj. Leonard. “As much as anybody who was not on the ship,” replied the witness. The airman’s charge that the Shen- andoah's survivors “are muzzled by the Navy Department, pending a whitewash bosrd” was explained by him in this vein: “It is the policy of the Army and Navy that whenever an accident occurs te refrain from discussing it until a board has de- termined the cause. But in this case the keeping quiet of people might not bring out the facts in]the case. It Radio Programs— Page 32.! < is very different in dourts of thi (Coutinued v Bage 7 Coluan 2 to explain | his | to look over all the | d Press. TWO CENTS. LAWLESS ARRESTS INPROHIBITION HIT - INHOUSE DEBATE Representative Phillips Calls Agents’ Methods Under- handed. {RECORDS IN MAYFLOWER CASE REPORTED STOLEN Says Too Much Emphasis Is Placed on Dry Law Observanc Pennsylvanian which has waxed steadily and war several days, was res n as the eedings go way ative P nde with Repre Repubiican, of Penn & an onslaught againe ement methods ared that the “law enforcing the eight t, and the ‘‘under used result the present enfor \b. Phillips decla o« methods of nth amendm Landed methos n crim s more shocking tha: assailed “recent’ a undern prohib onst nnc ned rathe tions which } than strengthened | He described | periment” > time added House member autocratic series a its worth ative hat) ias hat as he rdemned lawless meth | ded | oas Too Much Emphasis | “Not only does t he said, “seek to that which is not 1it has caused €0 much e placed ana more overshadowed and “The very nature of prohi nt is in the direc corruption of agents of the Govern | ment. It has caused such a break »wn In the vigilance of our guardians that great holes been opened not only for the the grafte the blackmailer. but also for the 1z, the murds and the dr zenerate.” Prohibition heasc {today for Government from 1 ies, while j p the doors of to_prohib! The mis much - discussed liquor case, in agent nearly $1,000 arresting two m subsaquer itted e proh lega ally mo rong, 1 phasis to be that oth have bee bon this one law important en the have briber ¥ iarters rec searche s stoler dry advocates more easily opening suspected private ho cents. oncerned the Horel ecords Mayflower e whi Wayne the he sa stelen j men eler, gen sloon Teazue 150 knew ght, that th records had vanished, but he decline | me one or rwo men to wl to suid suspicion was direct counsel o Nature of Papers. Tha records incl k_of Agents Cola M. 1y wer He rges ¢ ier wi E. C. Bi » who planned the tel trap. which developed the Venice and F 1 other confidential pape, ure of these has not been d osed, except t amonz the f re duplicates of the expense counts for the now famous Mayflower Hotel d which cost the Govern ment $953 for liquor and entertair ment, and which precipitated Mr. Ga! livan's attack In the course of a reply to Repre sentative Gallivan, Mr. Wheeler won ed=why the matter had not attract the Representitive's attention. At | the same time he announced that a hill would be presented soon to amend the Volstead act to permit prohib; tion agents to search homes on ant | evidence manufacture of distille spirits. 'resent regulations requiri {that an ent ve evidence of sale ! before receiving a search warrant are { hampering enforcement, he said ¥ he No Light on Mystery. No light could be thrown by office of Gen. Lincoln C. Andrews head of the prohibition enforcement {forces, on the mystery of the disap pearance of the records of prohibition igents who planned and conducted | the Mayflower Hotel conspiracy case, which brought forth the lensthy and | sarcastic denunciation by Representa {tive Gallivan of Massachusetts Gen. Andrews was out of his office today, and his office professed no wowledge of the whereabouts of the records, which Commissioner of In ternal Revenue Haynes sald had been stolen from the files. While officlals close to Mr. Andrews declined to say whether he had ordered an investiga tion of the whole it wus made plain at the Treasury that Gen. An. drews had not assumed the adminis tration of prohibition enforcement ai |the time of the Mayflower case, and {declared that such enforcement is not in line with his program of striking case at the source of liquor supply rather than at actual illegal sales. James E. Jones of the Internal Rev |enue Bureau, who recently was made | director of prohibition, also was out of |the city toda Wheeler Defends Arrests. | ne B. Wheeler, general counse! of the Anti-Saloon League of America | today declared it to be his opinion | that the trapping of violators of the | Volstead law wus legitimate and added that while large expenditures were to be avoided, “it makes little difference { whether it costs $1.000 or $5,000 if ef | fective cases are made against dealers in rum.” “When prohibition agents know that certain persons are consistent viola tors of the prohibition law,” he sald “they are justified in meeting them, suggesting to them that they make illegal purchases, and to sell liquor to them in order to make charges against them.” Mr. Wheeler said that he had begun an jinvestigation into the case of the vouth of 19 years, who Representative Gallivan said bad been led by a pro hibition agent to buy liquor and then arrested by the same man. “That sort of thinz, if true. is not ued ou Luge 2, Columa 3)