Evening Star Newspaper, February 9, 1926, Page 4

4 * RAIL MEN FREED OF PLOT CHARGES Boston U. S. Commissioner| Finds No True Evidence - | Against Two Officials. Br the Assaclat BOSTON, Stat Commi: day discharged Raflroad officia R0 wis ing conspiris prohibi foner found dence against t} lish probable & The officials, W. 1" slstant to the vice pr railroad _in _charge of George H. Nichalson p T N were indicted by a Fed grand ju eago in con- | fon wit ged 800,000 th beer ndicate operating ugh the East and Middle \West John C. Reardon. chief clerk of the | vaflroad at Lawrence, also was in-| ted, but he died while extradition | proceedings were under way A similar finding was announced I the commissioner in the of Ma tin J. Hart of Lowell, he cate which owned the wwrenoe inouncing United Jenney to Boston & Maine wdition ¢ dictment nat wi there Moure, as | of the | ndants to estab | he QUICK BUDGET ACTIQN| NEEDED, SAYS BRIAND| Wamns Chamber That Balancing‘l Measures Should Be Voted in Week. Br tha Associ PARIS Briand wa T'remier chamber action 1 difficul | declared th alance the bud- were voted 3 t to the Senate | within a tuation would | be dangerous. i The premier's warning was evoked 1 from the moderat takin definite sta regard to the financial measures before the cham! M. Briand replie ment wus follow ered the best cumstances The premi | the of | quick ve the ies is nec nless measures to week that the what under vern course the ci wimitted that the bud- | get now shows a deficit of 4.3 000 francs. He asserted that if w tn 5 or 6 days the al bills ha not been sent to t ind the | ssary lancing the bu er sources for the government would no los ime responsibility for roubles of the countr REQUEST BY SENATE FOR COOLIDGE COAL MOVE IS REFUSED (Continued from Fi age.) But T am not going to oppose this reso- lution any longer. Senator Borah of Idaho declared that the action of the Senate was not vourageous; that the Senate proposed erely to pass on to the President a duty which it should perform. “If there is nothing else to do but call them down here and talk.” said Senator Borah, “let’s have a Senate committee call them here. “I am told,” sald Senator King of Utah, “that there is no obstacle to the miners golng to work in the mines now enator Reed of Pennsylvania called attention to the State law, which pro- vides that minéts must have a cer- tificate showing they have had three vears' experience before the can go to work in the anthracite mines. He pointed out that this prevented the ntroduction of strikebreakers from other places. Defends Disputants Rights The miners, he sald, had a perfect right to quit work, and they have a perfect right to hold out for w they think is right. The operators, he said, had the same right. Senator Copeland, replying to the suggestion of Senator Borah that Con- ¥ress should tackle the strike problem and not pass it on to the President, sald: “After we have passed this resolu- tion the Congress has plenty to do in considering legislation to prevent a recurrence of coal strikes.” “It Is suggested,” said Senator Sim- mons of North Carolina, “that what the Senator from New York wants is @ futile thing. I know that ¢he Presi- dent has no power to intervene, but the respect for his office is so great that if he should bring his advice to bear it would have its effect. I should think that the President would be glad to contribute to a settlement of this controversy, which is bringing so much suffering.” nator Borih asked: “Do you see any way to settle this strike except by an increase of wages?” Senator Simmons replied that he did not know but that he thought some- thing should be done and that the in- tervention of the President would have a good effect. Hoover Denles Delay. Secretary Hoover of the Depart- ment of Commerce denied flatly today that his department was responsible in any way for holding up coal legis- latlon at this time. His attention was called to the debate in the Senate st night in which Senator Copeland i New York, Democrat, had charged that the Oddie coal bill was being held before the Department of Commerce, to which it had been sent for a re port, because “the coal operators are dispieased with it.” Secretary Hoover insisted that his department was at all times ready to co-operate with Congress. He added. however, that the department could not assume any legislative functions. Possibly 500 measures covering o wide range of subjects have been sent to the department from Congress, he said, and he does not intend to stand rosponsible for any fallure of Con- gress to begin work on legislation. enator Phipps of Colorado, chair- man of the committee on education and labor, to which was referred the hill introduced Saturday by Senator Robinson of Arkansas, providing for « board of industrfal adjustments to deal with the coal industry and to authorize the President to declare an “emergency,” sald today that he would call his committee together soon to consider that measure. Oddie Against Legislation. The position of Senator Oddle of Nevada, chairman of the committee on mines and mining, as several times stated to the Senate, was that he did not believe it wise to under- take ooal legislation at this time . when the strike has yet to be settled. Secretary Davis of the Department A A | anth: | legislation is “politically {and likely to lead to “extreme hard-| THE EVENING STAR,- WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1926 IMRS. PINCHOT HOPES TO END COAL WAR, AS IN 1923 BATTLE | Wife of Governor, as “Joan of Are,” Driving Force in Present Peace Efforts—May Become Candidate for Congress. ‘e Pinchot, brilliant, | of the Governor of | spires to be the Jo the anthracite inaton obse e from the ranton-Wilkes Barre aren Both and miners under- stand < cathered. that it is Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, rather than h fled hushand. who is the rea drivinz force hehind the effort to bring | capital and labor into har- | he strike reglon men are | it is Gov. Pinchot w has the center of the mediatior but that it fs his amt consort who is the pov red-haired wi nnsylvani f Arc to br mony. In saying t ) er behind the \s aetivities in the pres are tal for granted in Lecause of her b ended ves prin- | uthorship of the whereby the rs ago was 10 ent crisis the anthr promine | September cipal credit for the so-called Plnchot plan, previous strike settled by o per cent inere Interested in Labor. | Mrs. Pinchot the cause o the ho were . s long been zealous | inized . when there w tobiceo worke + shop in Wi Pinchot's tinancial 1S stood to be in their fight bitter poiitics. nd ability Eov- | wite are proverbial was | Mrs. Pinchot who mainly her husband’s prims against the Keystone huving overwhelmed contest, proceeded t finally at the ensuing elec n picke vas Mrs that w the we the of the It managed | campaign | them In that | overthrow them | fon in 1922, | ernor's Active In Conferences. ablished in the Harrisburg ex- ive manslon as the governor's 2dy, Mrs. Pinchot has neve to be a visible and vigor the numerous conferenc chief of the State to | o nt of the m laws, Pennsyl vanla and in the ¢ and | Lewis, MRS. GIFFORD PINCHOT. ed that it was on his wife's testless initiative that Gov. Pinchot has gone into action with John L. the miner's leader. The an- region remains convinced that Mrs. Pinchot will not stack arms until she helped to bring peace in the disturbed area. Persistence, the sole exception of vast per- ambition, is her outstanding eristic 1e has Leen credited with the plan to run for the House of Representa- tives from the Pinchot home district in northeastern Pennsylvania, on the same ticket which would carry Gov. Pinchot's name as Penn's Republican cindidate for the United States sen- hip this » If Gifford Pinchot tangible steps toward a nomina or friends ire certain his most ider and bettor will be Cornelia Bryce Pin- . who, for the past 12 v 8 en his political djutor. thracite tential 1s and Rer of the administration the last 24 hours. He was ence with members of th v i1 delegation at the « vesterday afternoon, and with_Senators. The pre: the Pennsylvania memb ¢ zress to relieve the acite region of very great. et said, was to m them fully | tration’s attitude and as doing and proposing confer- Pennsyl- ol late Iso talked upon | Con- | in the | is pose, sure that Davis' p o 4].\‘ Within the la: mbers from gland joined 24 hours Reput New York and New | in a leiter to a Ma- | | jority Leader Tilson of the House, de- | claring that further delay on coal | injudicious' | ship among the people,” and asking | for a hearing before the Republican | steering committee of the House | This letter was signed by Represen- tative Treadway of New York, Rep- resentative Gibson of “f:rmont and Representatives Fish, Wainwright and Tolley of New York. Bloom Urges Action. Sol Bloom, a Democratic Represent ative from New York, has addressed a letter to President Coolidge urging that he inform the Congress without delay just what he wants done with regard to the coal situation and pledg: ing that the Congress will act within 24 hours after receiving his sugges- tion. The situation was brought up again on the floor of the Senate last night by Senator Copeland. He read a tele- gram from Ashland, Pa., telling of the death of a woman in the anthra- clte region from starvation, the wife | of a miner and mother of several chil- dren. The New York Senator again urged that the President call the operators and miners to the White House in an effort to settle the strike. “If the President of the United States cannot arbitrate the strike,” he said, “then nobody can.” Senator Watson of Indlana, Repub- lican, said it had been rumored about that the operators and miners were close to an agreement, that he wanted to know if it was so or not. Senator Copeland replied that he had been hearing the same rumor for months. Senator Neely st Virginia, Democrat, referring to a call of New York members of the House at the White House to talk of the coal situa- tion, said: “If these members of the House called on the President because of an alleged shortage of coal, of course, the President had the best excuse in the world for refusing to see them. West Virginia has an unlimited supply of coal now available at bargain prices, which is better than any other coal ever used in New York Cit Senator Copeland replied that soft coal could not he used in many of the dwellings of the poor in New York Cit LEWIS SILENT ON MOVE. Refuses Comment on Senate Appeal for Coolidge Action. WILKES-BARRE, Pa., February 9 (#).—Maintaining his polity of silence on the varfous moves being made by legislative bodies and others to end the anthracite strike, John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, today declined to comment on the ac- tion of the United States Senate in appealing to the President to find a | solution for the suspension. Mr. Lewis | was Interested in the vote and also as to what amount of support the resolu- tion received from administration Sen- ators. Mr. Lewls spent the morning at his headquarters here conferring with lo- cal union officials and expressed him- self as highly gratified with their re- ports. He characterized as ‘“insig- nificant” the meeting here last Satur. day of Rinaldo Cappellini, president of District No. 1, United Mine Workers, and Maj. W. W. Inglis, chairman of the operators negotiating committee. “Meetings llke that occur daily,” he said, “and are mostly over matters of maintenance.” In a statement issued at Philadel- phia, Samuel D. Warriner, prominent operator, declared the “partisan attl. tude” of Gov. Pinchot had obstructed the settlement of the strike. A resolution approved by approxi- mately 3,600 persons in Scranton ap- pealing to President Coolidge to end the coal strike was forwarded to the Chief Executive today. The resolution ‘was framed by the executive commit- tee of the Scranton Ministerial Asso- clation and was presented at a meet. ing in the Elm Park Church at the close of an address by Billy Sunday denouncing the liquor traffic. It was adopted unanimousl ‘Wages of farm workers LnDlnn-rkJ WAN CASE WILL GO TO JURORS TODAY AS DEFENSE ENDS __(Continued from First Page.) in the basement, and “no strength was required to do this other than to stand on two feet and hold a revolver.! He exhibited photographs of condi- tions in the mission house taken a time after the crime was dis- to bear out his contention. Money Claimed Motive. Money was the motive, Maj said. Ma. rdon Gordon emphatically pointed out to the jury that the lmnl.lv\‘rlunl;1 on the stub of the Mission House checkbook, which bore the purported signature of “T. T. Wong," of the defendant, in spite of defense testimony by a handwriting expert that the prisoner did not write it. Maj. Gordon also charged that Wan nspired to forge the check for $5,000 d use his brother as a “blind” in hing it. s there any doubt in your mind,” the District Attorney, “that they planned to get $5.000 from the > ional Mission, and, to keep getting caught, to seal the lips of those who could tell the reason why the check was not given them?” Maj. Gordon, in_closi s ment, asked the ju “render a verdict so that the public in this Dis- trict can be safe and sound from ¢riminals without. A luncheon re- cess until 2 o'clock was taken, at which time Justice fford an- nounced he would give the case to the jury. The courtroom was crowded to ca- pacity, long lines having formed out- side waiting for a chance to get a seat. Crowds also formed in the rear of the room, and United States Mar- shal Edgar C. Snyder was forced to station several marshals to the rear entrance to facilitate the movement to and from the room of court re- porters and newspaper men. Counsel Open Pleas. The walls of the courtrcom rang with oratory vesterday afternoon as Assistant District Attorney George D. Horning, jr., and former Senator A. Owsley Stanley of Kentucky deliv- ered their opening arguments to the jury for the prosecution and defense, respectively. Mr. Horning employed the full force of his deep volce in declaring Wan had conspired to commit the crime for which he is charged and that he forged the names of Dr. T. T. Wong and C. H. Hsie to a check for $5,000 on the Mission House fund, which his brother atiempted to cash the day after the crime was committed. Mr. Horning declared six minutes_after Wan registered at the Harris Hotel, at noon January 27, he sent a tele- gram to his brother in New York, urging him to come to Washington. “Isn't it significant? Doesn't it show a plan of action?” asked) Mr. Horning. “He said he was sick and needed his brother. There was a telephone in the room and he didn't walk across the room and call a doctor or the house physician.” Mr. Stanley injected a mew angle into the case which had been but lightly touched upon during the tak- ing of evidence. It was to this effect: That the man who Kkilled Ben Sen Wu killed Dr. wong and Hsie at the same time and at the same place; that Dr. Wong finished a dinner at the Nankin restaurant at 10 o'clock on the night of January 29, 1819, and, as an autopsy showed, his stomach contained only liquid and his meal had been digested. Citing medi- cal testimony that three hours is required to digest a meal, this would place Dr. Wong alive at 12:30 or 1 o'clock, at which time, Government evidence showed, Wan and his { brother were in the Harris Hotel. Further, Dr. Wong, who weighed 180 pounds, was killed after a mighty struggle in the house, which resulted in the breaking of furniture and general disarrangement of the rooms, and Wan at that time was physically unable to have engaged in the fight. The murderer, his hands covered with Dr. Wong’s blood, left the house by the basement door, as a smudge against the casing reveals, Mr. Stan- ley declared. 1 Pinchot Dry Bills Pass Senate. HARRISBURG, Pa., February 9 (#).—Two measures backed by Gov. Pinchot for control of distillerigs and breweries were passed by the Benate last night. They now -go to the House, The distillery bill was passed 31 to 15 and the brewery- bill 28 to 18. e e Many wage increases have been sranted to cotton spinners in France. ussian goods ave crowding those from Maxico out of Franos % 3 counselor and co- was that | POSITION OF SUTER | | Investigation of His “Dou- i ble-Role” Activities. Investigation Into the titness of | sxe C. Suter to be president of the atlon of Cltizens' Assoclations and president of the advisory ol while actively employed by W ington coal merchants in connection with the Senate's probe of coal prices was demanded last night by the Con- | gress Helghts Citiz fution Delegates to the federation were Instructed to ask an investigation ¢ the dual role of Mr. Suter and to mand his resignation as head of the citizens’ federation if he is found to have defended “profiteering prices for coal during the present coul short- age emergency. Follows Heated Debate. The actlon was taken aiter a heated debate, in which Mr. Suter was de- | nounced and pralsed. A resolution | offered by E. J. Newcomb demanding | Mr. Suter’s resignation was amended | to_provide an investigation first. | Mr. Suter's dual role is indefensible. | Mr. Newcomb gald. “He cannot serve | two masters. It is his duty as head | of the federation to protect the peo- ple. In defending the coal de; has turned traftor to the peor J. L. Gelbman. sec ciation, declared Mr {honestly hold both jols. 5. C. Purdy defende: his honesty and sincerit Vote Against Af The assoclation voted not to affilia with the East Washington Booster: Association. Fears were expressed b Mr. Newcomb that the Boosters' A soclation would be used for politica rter could n Suter for purpose ation. solution was adopted calling for an_additional eppropriation for purchase of Wilson Park in the Con- | gress Heights section for a municipal | park and plavground. A cont has obtained the land, and soon build & row of houses there, it was | announced, and the opportunity to| the land without condemnation | lings will soon be gone. 1 svision was asked for an ac tional letter carrier for the section. fc additional letter boxes and more ade. | quate city delivery service. IZ. Richardson pre sase and Representa. | . Who were to speak, were | not able to be present i M'QUIGG INDORSES | PENDING BRAFT LAW/ ‘Urgel Action on Measure Combin-; ing Industrial Resources With Manpower in War. Passage of pending legislation to provide a broadened and compre- | hensive draft law, under which in dustrial resources as well as man power could be drafted for the service | of the Natfon in a war emergency, | was urged by National Comdr. John | R. McQuigg of the American Legion, | in an address at a dinner given by war veteran members of Congress last night at the Willard Hotel to| Past National Comdr. James A. Drain. | | Indorsing the bill sponsored by | | Senator Capper of Kansas and Repre- sentative Johnson of South Dakota. Comdr. McQuigg declared it would mean “equal service for all and spe- | cial profits and special privileges for | none.” | “The American Legion.” the com.| mander continued, “is very mucl the opinfon that should we be for |into another war it should produce | neither slackers nor profiteers; that | the resources of the Natlon in mun. | power, materfal and money should | be contributed to the common cause, | with less thought to profit and more | to 1o devoted, conscientious ani | painstaking service to the Govern-| ment."” OIL MEN DECLARE DISCOUNT HIT TRADE Unable to Compete With Standard Company, Wisconsin Inde- pendent Dealers Say. Py the Associated Press. MADISON, Wis.,, February ¢ Nine representatives of Independent cil concerns, testifying vesterday at a public hearing before the Wiscon- sin State Department of Markets into the gasoline prices, asserted they were unable to meet competition of the Standard Oil Co. in large-lot sales to concerns whose employes bought over a large territory. They were called by Attorney Gen- | eral Herman L. Ekern at the first of {four public hearings which will form {the basis for a decision by the De- partment of Markets as to whether contracts under whichf discounts are granted to large-lot buyers shall be discontinued. The independent dealers testified they had adopted discount contracts first instituted by the Standard Oil Co., in order to meet competition as far as possible. Cross-examination of each inde- pendent by R. J. 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