Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1926, Page 1

cl ATHER. U. S, Weather Bureau Forecast.) 1 tonight and tomorrow, WE ratures 1t 3 pam. ye it noon today temy; slowly ssterday; low Tntered 929 925 T T s ashington, d class matter D ¢h WASHINGTON PRESIDENT HOLDS RETIRENENT BIL STILL T00 LIBERAL $1.200 Maximum Annuity and Age Limit Raise Doubt as to Acceptability. ANXIOUS TO TAKE REPORT UP FOR FURTHER STUDY Bays Public, Who Must Pay Cost, Must Be Considered in Fixing Pension Qualifications. ident Coolidge let it be known that he thinks the liberalized bill it was favorably the louse vesterday by Lehlbach of ew chairman of the House com- e on eivil service, is still too lib- il he doubts that the Govern this time can afford to pay of the proposed increased for retired Government em- irement ed sentative it details of the bill as reported not been carefully studied by the esident it was said, but its main ires raise a doubt in the Presi- s mind as to the acceptability of legislation. The President, how- intimated that he i anxious her to study the measure and to advised by those who are more miliar with the subject its ty. Same Two Objections. While discussing this legislation at 1he White House today the President is represented as saying that the com- ttee's bill as it now stands is too literal in two major respects. The £1.200 maximum annual annuity as proposed is, in his opinion, a trifle ex- cessive, and the age limit for optional retirement is too low. During his dis cussion of this legislation today the Pr Wwhat he considered a fair maximum annuity, nor did he specify a scale of age limit that would meet with his approval. the ever in fow days ago while expressing | self regarding these features of liberalization bill, the President hin the sident did not attempt to suggest | [Murderer of 100 - | To Pay With Life | For 6 Years’ Crime| By the Associated Pres MOSCow, April 6. Nicholas i Trapishkin, convicted of murderi 109 persons and committing nutner ous robberies during the last six vears, was sentenced to dea v in the Moscow Supreme Court. A peasant named Dibenko was given five years for harboring Trapishkin, who terrorized large sections of the Ukraine. Another notable criminal case was t of Arthemy . who, according to the ecutor, was responsible of 155 revolutionists rist regime, when he ed during the cz | was an Imperial secret police spy. i o BAG RULE CHARGED AT TARIFF HEARING Dennis Tells Senators Marvin Gives Two-Thirds of Debate Time to élassie. ] By the Associated Press. | The gag rule is being used by Chair- man Marvin in conducting debates on the Tariff Commission, Commissioner Dennis, a Democrat, charged today be- fore the Senate tariff investigation committee Under the present procedure, he said, two-fifths of the time alloted to debate is consumed by Commissioner Glassle, one-fiftth by Chairman Marvin and oneifth by Commissioner Costi- gan, leaving only onefifth for the other three members. “I protested to the commission over this slip-shod method of conducting de- bates,” he said. Mr. Dennis sald he had been criticized by Chairman Mar | vin for writing President Coolidge at | Swampscott about the straw hat case | while at the same time Chairman Mar- { vin wrote the President about tariff | cases without the commission being advised. Attacks “Subtle” Glassie. | _ Referring to Commissioner Glassie, Mr. Dennis declared that he was the | “most subtle, adroit and learned law yer in the United States,” but lacked | “horse sense.” “I feel like a village idiot in the represented as ving that 70 | presence of Michiavelll when he starts was would be more satistactory, in | one of his legal arguments,” the wit- ¥ his way of thinking, as a maximum for retirement. Tod. he intimated at 60 years for railway mail clerks o 62 years for mechanics and other workers and 65 years for ordinary clerks was too low. He was repre- sented as doubting if employes out- side of the Government would care | 1o contribute, in the form of taxes, 1oward retiring Governmenteempioves nerely because the latter have reached the ages above mentioned. He says the public generally must be considered in this matter, as the people of the United States will be the ones who, through taxation, will pay this cost for retiring the Govern- ment's superannuated employes. Considers It Important. The President intimated that he considers this phase of the question . very important one, as the Govern. ment is called upon by the provisions of this new increased retirement bill to vay approximately $24,000,000 of the estiinated total of $54,000,000. The President hopes that those who will discuss this legislation with him will be prepared to show him just why the framers of the legislation consider it necessary to retire employes just be- have reached the ages of 62 and 65 years. The President is inclined to think that many thousands of men and women in the Federal Government ure physically able to continue in the | service considerably longer than that and he believes in all fairness to every one concerned, and also in the interest of governmental economy, more practicable average age of retirement should ed at. The whole question in President’s mind is a matter of iving at an average, and he sees Tt why those who hate studied this subje ihe entire situation, and who at the same time have the interest of the Government and the public in general or th rr he heart, could not arrive at a prac- | rage. His Mind Is Open. While speaking his mind so frankly egarding this legislation, which he realizes is so important to the- many 1housands of man and woman en ployes in the public service, the Presi- dent is represented as having sald lie wanted it clearly understood, ho ever, that he was not saying at thi 1ime that he would disapprove or ap- prove the bill as it has been reported. He attempted to give the impr that his mind is open to convictio but in the meantime’ he is extremely anxious to have those who have thiy legislation in charge answer the que tions he has »d and which he con- siders at this time as being obje tionable and detrimental. The President has from time t msserted his approval of the principle involved. He believes that Govern- ment employes, after long faithful service, should be paid a falr annuity. Puts Sentiment Aside. o President, however, has made evident. that, despite sentimen- sons, he has no intention of sanctioning a too heavy raid upon the national Treasury to make this pos- sible. He has cautioned Congress falthfully since the enactment of the 1ax revision bill to discourage legis- lation that calls for annual appropria- tions not provided for in the esti- isates of the budget. 1t is understood at the White House the President is awalting conferences with Senator Stanfield of Oregon, who lias charge of this retirement legisla- tion in the Senate, and with Repre- sentative Lehlbach of New Jersey, ho has been fostering it in the House, as well as others who are fa- Jniliar with the subject in its entiret it is the President’s intention to hear first the views and arguments of these gentlemen before he attempts ta wake up his mind one way or the other. The new retirement bill for Govern- ment employes to be reported to the Senate will be substantially the same +5 the measure laid before the House vesterday, Senator Stanfield, chairman of the Senate subcommittee, indicated today. Although the subcommittee will not 1e ready until Saturday to lay its re- yori before the full civil service 3..11tee of the Senate for final a (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) time and who are familiar with | sion | ‘| SPANISH PLANES LEAVE. L chase tooth p ness said, “but he and his yoke-fellow, Chalrman Marvin, have turned the commission into a debating soclety |and an army never has succeeded led ;b,\' a debating society.” | “Commissioner Dennis declared when "he went on the commission he at. tempted to be a harmonizer, but that he had developed into a sort of CHAPMAN CALMLY GOES 0 GALLOWS; LURID CAREER ENDS Is Given “Friend’s Burial” in Church Cemetery by Priest, Last Companion. FIGHT TO SAVE BANDIT | CONTINUES TO DEATH| Officials’ Homes Guarded by State Troops—Reprisal by “Gang” Now Feared. By the Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn., April 6.—In plot of ground in Mount St. Benedic Cemetery, just over the Bloomfield line, lies' today the body of Gerald Chapman, mail bandit, who was hang- ed at the Wethersfield prison just ifter midnight for murdering a police man. priest went with the body to its final resting place and there was no service of the Roman Catholic Church. The body was claimed by the Rev. Michael P. Barry, Roman Catho- lic chaplain of the prison, who had said he would see that Chapman was given a burial such as_he wouid de sire a friend to have. Father Barry, however, did not go to the cemetery. He already had departed on a vaca. tion of two months, leaving no word of what had transpired during the three hours he was in the room across the entry from the death chamber with Chapman. Priest Firmly Silent. It had been thought that perhaps the priest would tell something about the murderer; that there might be something which he could reveal of | the singular character with whom he had corae to be on friendly terms— something which would not encroach | upon the privacy of the relations of the priest with the man. But Father | Barry had said thgt he would say no! vord and a no_questions, for to him the life of the man was a closed book. Chapman's body was hurried from the prison soon after the hanging and taken to the undertaking pariors of J. C. Dillon. Dillon refused to permit any one to enter his place, and turned away a number of the curiously inclined who put forward various excuses which they thought entitled them to look upon the face of the dead man. The funeral arrangements were kept secret, and the fact that the body was buried in Mount St. Bene dict’s Cemetery was not made known until after the burial, and then by Frederick J. Groehl, chief of Chap- man’s counsel. The little cemetery | | | | | | Ismaelite. Reiterating his charge that the flex- | ible provision of the tariff law was | being “maladministered,” he asserted | the “lopsided, ill-balanced administra- {tion by the present commission is illing the flexible provision.” | | Assalls President’s Control. | Senator Bruce, Democrat, Mary- {land, a member of the investigating | committee, suggested that the Tariff ! Commission be made a rate-making ! body with the President entirely re. moved from tariff fixing. “The President {8 the poorest per- son in the United States to lower and | raise tariff rates,” Senator Bruce add- | ed. “Whether he is a Democrat or Re- | publican he is bound by his party platform.” After Commissioner Dennis had praised the work of Commissioner Brossard, Senator La Follette, Repub- lican, Wisconsin, drew from the wit- ness that he had advised President Coolidge not to appoint Brossard. Smoot’s Name Mentioned. “Was Senator Smoot’s name men- tioned in this connection?” asked Sen- ator La Follette. “Yes. I told the President that Bros- sard had been represented publicly as {a protege of Senator Smoot,” replied | Commissioner Dennis. “As I recall, | the President’s reply was, ‘So much | the better; I don’t object to that.’ “Didn’t you also tell the President | that Brossard was connected with the heet sugar industry?” asked Chairman | Robinson, Democrat, Arkansas. | *“Yes, but I do not believe Commis- { sioner Brossard represents any in- replied the Commissioner. Doubts Own Fitness. “What did the President say to | that?” asked Senator Robinson. “I | am treading on delicate ground,” re- | sponded the witness, and the colloquy | ended. | Commissioner Dennis declared that | he did not believe that he himself was | fitted to serve on the Tariff Commis- | sion. ! “I am impatient with circumlocu- | tion and the waste of time,” he added. “I may be more interested in general trade than I am to protect some little industry in this country.” { dustry,’ ! —_— | Hop Of for Tunis, Next Leg on i , Flight to Manila. | ALGIERS, April 6 (®).—Spanish aviators who are endeavoring to fly ! from Spain to Manila, hopped off to- day for Tunis. The first of the three machines rose at 9 c'clack, and is but 6 miles from the State prison. The grave is in a plot of consecrated ground, it having been found that Chapman had been baptized in the Roman Catholic Church as an infant and in his boyhood days had served on the altar of the church his par- ents attended. Shows Little Emotion. Chapman’s sensation career of crime ended on the gallows at 12:04 o'clock this morning. | | Showing little emotion, he stepped under the noose of Connecticut’s new hanging machine and was executed for the murder of Policeman James | Skelley of New Britain in a_depart- ment store robbery October 12, 1924. Seven minutes and five seconds later physicians pronounced him dead. Thus ended at 38 a life of crime that began when he was 16, led him in and out of prison and made his name a byword in every police sfation in the country. As Chapman, whose real name was George Chartres, started for the execution chamber, at one minute after midnight, the Rev. Father Barry, took his place at the condemned man’s side. The clregyman carried no crucifix and Chapman was with- out the consolation that its sight might have brought had he de- sired it. Bandit's Career Was Vivid. A $1,454,000 mall truck robbery in New York and escapes from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary and another escape from a hospital at Athens, Ga., were among the high spots in the criminal's career. Three times had Chapman been re- prieved in last-minute efforts of his counsel to save his life. His last re- prieve expired last night at midnight. A minute later he began-his march to death. A small blue chalked circle on the floor of the death chamber marked the end of Chapman’s life's journey. He did not see on the wall a noose in a new hempen rope, for before the noose was thrown over his neck a black cap was drawn over his head. An instant later Connecticut’s automatic hanging machine, used for the first time, had Jjerked the man into the air with two distinct motions. The body made a half spin in the air, and there were convulsive ro- tions, particularly noticeable in the twitching -of the feet. Then at the end of the rope swung an inert body, its momentum checked by the hand of a guard on either side, who just could reach the ankles, ! Chapman’s face had a slight flush as he entered the chamber. He piercingly glanced to the right and then to the left ping_the audience with his the others followed at 9:02 and 9 | The aviators arrived here vesterday. ed on Page By Consolidated Press. CHICAGO, April 6.—Malt tonie, which a week ago was vociferously hailed by the wets as the next thing to good beer, has turned out to be a bigger flivver than the Windsor, Ont., lager. One week’s ‘trial has served to dampen the ardor of those who saw in the 3.75 per cent tonic a prospec- tive first-class beverage. In fact the supposedly beer tonic has proved so severe a jolt to the hope of the anti- prohibitionists that it is passing out of print. Drug stores which have been sup- plied with a limited amount of the malt extract report a brisk sale of the first lots, but it isn't a repeat { trade. Customers made their pur- | chase of the supposed beverage with alance that they pur- te. The onc experi- eems to be enough. ! i ence, though, 4 13.75 Malt Tonic, Sought by Tlfirsty, Proves Unpalatable and Sale Drops There is a legitimate trade which fol- lows, and this is of sufficient volume to keep the extract on sale. Experimenters among the lay thirsty public have found that even when mixed with near-beer the 3.75 brew isn’t satisfying. ~ When taken by itself a tablespoonful or two of the heavy, rather bitter substance, is enough. When diluted all evidence ot mellowness is lost. So the big nolse which followed announcement of the sale of the medi- cine has completely died down. There isn’t enough of a kick to back it up. In fact those who have tried both say that after due trial the malt tonic is far less satisfactory than the On- tario brew, which proved little better than near-beer. Tt is evident now that the prohibi- tion officials knew about what they | weire ng when they reported the new tonic unpalatable. ¥ (Covyright, 1926.) { committee on WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C, TUEBDAY, APRIL /i 6, 1926—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. ¢ Foening Star. |Chinese Boys of 13 SSSESSH S U. . COAL GONTROL BUREAU OPPOSED Representative Mead Would Give President and Existing Agencies Full Power. Sefting up of another Government bureau to control distribution and price of coal was opposed tods Representative James M. Mead, Demo crat,of New York before th® House interstate and foreign commerce committes considering coal legislation today. Repr: Meyer Jacobstein of New York, a previous witness before the committee, proposed such a bureau. Mr. Mead told the committee that in place of the coal control bureau suggested by Mr. Jacobstein he would invoke the present power of the Ied- htative | eral Trade Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission and the De- partment of Labor as counselors to the President and would clothe the Executive with power to take over the mines and operate them in the event of a national emergency. In his opinion he declared that a national emergency would probably never arise if the three existing Government agen cles carried out their part in the pro- gram_outlined by him. Under the Mead plan the Inter- state Commerce Commission, in time of a strike, would divert such substi- tutes as are available to the point of greatest need; the concillation bureau of the Labor Department would have authority to mediate and get operators and miners together, and the Federal Trade Commission would compile and distribute facts relating to cost of mining, prices, and give publicity to all factors entering into the coal situation at the time. Reports Great Suffering. Representative J. Mayhew Wain- right, Republican, of New York, and Representative Robert Luce, Repub- lican, of Massachusetts, also appeared before the committee. Mr. Wain- right told the committee that great suffering had been caused in New York State by inability of consumers to get anthracite coal during the Winter. He said he had no plan to lay before the committee, but hoped it would find a way to prevent strikes and insure a steady flow of coal from the mines to consumers. Mr. Luce urged upon the committee the need for setting up standards of quality of anthracite coal to protect the consumer in the matter of price and heating qualities of the coal he buys. Mr. Luce said that while he would suggest such standards to apply for the present only to anthracite coal, he had been told by the Bureau of Mines that at a future date some standards would also have to be set up for bituminous coal. No question of the hour is so press- ing in | tri (Continued on DEATH LIST IN FIRE INCREASED T0 35 4,000 Homeless in Blaze in Egypt. Victims Trapped by Rapid Spread of Flames. By the Associated Press. CAIRO, Egypt, April The Egyp- tlan government has organized relief measures for the 4,000 persons ren- dered homeless when fire swept the village of Sagin-el-Kon, 6 miles from Tantah. At least 35 persons perished in the fire, which started at noon Saturday when & sudden change in the wind carried sparks from a household fire, kindled outside the dwelling, to the straw-covered roof. ‘The flames spread with appalling rapidity, from 200 to 300 dwellings being ablaze within a few minutes. The villagers rushed wildly to and fro seeking escape from the burning mass. Many of those cut off were ‘women and children. Fire brigades from nearby towns arrived, but were unable to control the fire until Sunday morning, when practically the entire village had been leveled. Thirty-five bodies were found in the debris. Many of those who es- caped were badly burned. The government has supplied tents and flour for the homeless. Village fires in Egypt are generally caused, as in this case, by a change in the wind sending sparks from domestic fires to the highly inflammable roofs. Programs—Page 34 It was Traffic move today in t | passing the buck over responsibility | for the present muddled situation over automobile drivers’ permits. Yester- ¥ he was accuséd by a Representa- aw in the ¢ he re- ponsibility square- Iy ac the doors of Cone Congress containing two oneerning permits s law provisigns P of operators and made it impossible for him to p out the new cards before the old one expired March 31. Secondly, he e plained that he was not given fun sue the permits until March 1, t that time the House had an amendment to the traffie act providing an entirely new method of issuing the permits. With the pros- pect of this modification being ap- proved by the Senate, he declured, it would have been nothing short of folly, besides a physical impossibility, 10 reissue more than 200,000 operators cards in less than a month. The traffic director and the Commis- EL[)I{IDGE BLAMES CON FOR DRIVERS’ |Declares Contradictory Prov | Failure to Get Funds and Pending Legi Prevented Reissuance. PERMIT MUDDLE ons of Traffic Act, House District comittee vesterday for not getting out new permits before the old ones expired. As a result the committee killed the joint resolution which was adopted by the Senate ex tending the time for the reissuance of the permits to March 31, 1927 The committee seemed to resent the fact that nothing had been done since the traffic code was enacted more s ago to prepare for re- raits. Mr. Eldridge. hat such was not had made all the . ngements for issuing new permits and that Congress is to blame for the present invalid state of the permits and not his_offic The contradictory provisions of the traffic act, which Mr. Eldridge ‘said failed to show the intent of Congress and baffled him were cited as follow =y aph A—"Oper- ators' permits shall be issued for a period not in excess of pne year, ex- piring on March 81, and shall be re newable for periods of one year upon compliance with such regulations and (Continued on Page 5, Column 3. ssulng driver however, TRACTION MERGER (S BELIEVED NEAR Commissioners Urge Delay on Plans for New Street, Pe/nding Action. Early prospects of a merger of the Washington traction companies caused the District Commissioners to urge Congress today to defer action on the bill authorizing the opening of a street from Georgia avenue to Ninth street in the vicinity of the Clark Griffith Stadium. Writing to Chairman Capper of the Senate District committee, the Com- missioners said: “In view of the pos- sibility of rerouting some of the street cars on Georgia and Florida avenuel should a merger of the street railway systems be accomplished, it is sug- gested that no action be taken on the bill at present. The improvement pro- posed is needed urgently, but under the circumstances, it is recommended that action on the proposed legislation be deferred.” Officials of the Public Utllities Com- mission indicated before the commu- nication was written that consider- able progress has been made toward a consolidation of the street railway systems and that some definite an- nouncement of the plan might be forthcoming within several weeks. F. W. Doolittle, vice president of the North American Co. of New York, conferred with Engineer Commission- er J. Franklin Bell, chairman of the commission, and Maj. W. E. R. Covell, his assistant, for almost three hours yesterday, at which it was announced officially the merger question was dis- cussed. The North American Co. owns the Washington Rapid Transit Co., and has- large holdings in both | the Washington Railway and Electric and Capital Traction companies. BATTLEFIELD PARK BILLS ARE APPROVED House Military Committee Passes on, Measures to Acquire Historic Spots in Virginia. Bills to establish national military parks at Fredericksburg and Peters- burg in Virginia and at Stones River in Tennessee to commemorate Civil ‘War battleflelds wére approved today by the House military committee. The bill to establish a park at Fred- ericksburg, introduced by Representa- tive Bland, Democrat, Va., also would provide for preserving historical points connected with the battles of Fred- ericksburg, Spottsylvania Court House, the Wilderness, Chancellorsville and Salem Church. A bill by Representa- tive Drewry, Democrat, Virginia. would provide for permanent com- memoration of the campaign and siege of Petersburg in 1864 and 1865. WELCOME AWAITS PRESS DELEGATES Ll Visit to Capitol to Be First Event on Program for Pan-American Guests. ‘Washington will welcome the visit- ing delegates to the first Pan-Ameri- can Journalistic Congress formally to- morrow morning, and, after taking them on the first of a series of inter- esting tours and social activities, will witness in the evening the convening of the preliminary session of the con- ference that has been hailed 4s one of the most significant steps toward continued peace yet taken in the Western Hemisphere. Most of the Latin American dele- gates will have reached Washington by this evening, and it is expected that most of the others, besides the American delegates, will be here in time for the inaugural festivities to- morrow morning. Word was received, however, that storms have delayed one or more steamers bringing some of the representatives from South America, and it is feared these will not arrive in Washington before Thursday. Visit Capitol First. The first visit of the delegates will be paid to the Capitol. They will as- semble at the Pan-American Building at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning and be taken in special cars to the Capitol. There they will first be received in the Speaker’s room and then escorted to the House chamber. Representative C. L. Gifford of Massachusetts, speak- ing Portuguese, and Representative H. M. Wurzbach of “Texas, speaking Spanish, will formally welcome them. Senator Bingham will deliver the address of welcome in Spanish when the delegates reach the Senate chamber. Senator Bingham is well known in many of_the Latin American republics, having done con- siderable exploring in Central Ameri- ca. He has personally visited many of the South American countries and is acquainted already with a number of the delegates. After the ceremonies in the two houses of Congress, the party will inspect the Capitol. In their special cars the delegates * “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, 100,954 TWO CENTS. PROBLEMS OF RUM WAR REVEALED BY - ANDREWS INPROBE {Enforcement Chief Submits | to Running Fire of Questions in Senate Inquiry. (#) Means Associated Press. And Older Formed Into Army Brigade Correspondence of the Associated Press. TSINGTAO, February 20.—A Chinese infant brigade is the lat civil war anomaly in Tsingtao The local commander organized the voungsters with the promise of regular rice rations. Applicants must be more than 13 years old, sound and sturdy. The little fellow regimentals do not appear soldierly and often are seen playing hop scotch and other “kid” games i How they would be used in repel ling the enemy has not developed. P ETHINKS LAW CHANGES BRUUKHARI [;ASE | WOULD AID CLEAN-UP i}:dge Defends Constitutionality of | in their baggy DEBATE RENEWED 525 =~ Whole Liquor Issue. g 2| s Caraway Continues Presen NP tation of Majority Argument | The aimiculties of proninition e ‘in Favor of Steck. forcement were laid bare by Gen. Lin €. Andrews, Assistant Secretar |of the Treasury, at the Senate prohi | Vition investigation today. Resuming the floor when the Senate| Under a running fire of questions met today, Senator Car: v. Demo-| from Senator Reed of Missouri, crat, of Arkansas summed up the ar- member of the committee, and Julien wument he presented at length yes-|Codman, attorney for the anti-prohi terday in support of the method by |bitionists, Gen. Andrews told the com which the privileges and elections | mittee how “split” whisky is made committee arrived at the Tusion |and sold through some drug stores, at Daniel F. Steck, Democrat, is en- | how enormous quantities of alcohol, titled to the seat held by Senatur|denatured for industrial uses, is re Brookhart of Towa. {natured and finds its way into the Mr. Steck challenged the election |phootleg business; how many of the of Senator Brookhart, and during the | enforcement agents are subjected to past year the privileges and elections | creqt temptation, and how some of committee has been engaged in CON-{iham havae fallen. sideration of the contest. | Gen. Andrews told the committee _Senator Caraway reiterated toda¥ | po hejjeved that with certain changes the assertion that at the outset it Was [ 19 1a\w recommended him. amd greed that the Senate committee Was | no b ng gome other amendments, it o make a straight recount of the bal-{ wou1q he possible to bring many of lots witho; other claims in- | hege ahuses to an end. i 1t Would Amend Law. supervi .ent him in the recount, the Senator | In view of the decision it Court of Appe om Arkansas declared, and each | s allowed to have counsel in con- vesterday, Gen. Andrew. thought he should ask ( stant touch with the supervisor. Irregularities Known. n amendment to the law s s known from the star ng the department power to re. view permits for the denaturing of d. that ther in the bollots and |alcohol for industrial purposes annu ally. the committee allowed the supervisors in the recoun se <e ques- | Senator Reed sought to Gen tions in <es in which they could | Andrews to a statement that he wish agree. In any case in which the|€d to deny the renewal of a perm board of supervisors disagreed, the | Which he believed should not be re newed, but for which denfal he had - right to ni to rep of the ( nittee for de of Connecticut | lot went to the com or Caraway declared. speech of three hours | afternoon, Senator Cara- outlined in detail how the ma- of the privileges and elections committee arrived at the concl that Steck should be given Sena Brookhart's seat He insisted that the only question the committee had to decide was the | intent of the voter in the case of each | disputed ballot. Other contentions on hehalf of Senator Brookhart were not | raised, he said, until after the result | of tHe recount had been ascertained. | Senator Caraway denied the claim | of Senator Brookhart's supporters | that the committee was not consistent | in ruling on precincts in which there was a discrepancy between the num- | ber of ballots and the number of | votes a: hown on the poll book i The Senator from Arkansas also de- clared emphatically that only two packages of ballots arrived in Wash- | ston in unsealed packages. | There were frequent and spirited | clashes between Senator Caraway and Senators who interrupted to question | him as to the rules followed by the | committee in deciding doubtful votes. < | 50 POLICE BATTLE 1,000 IN STRIKE RIOT Passaic, N. J., Officers Arrest 10 as Rocks Fly Thick—Textile “Joan of Arc” Taken. way jority | By the Assaciated Press. PASSAIC, N. April 6. —Fifty Passafc police today battled a thou- sand or more textile strikers at Wal- | lington Bridge, arresting 10, receiving | in return a prolonged shower of rocks | and stones. Police used thelr clubs on the lead ers, who included Nancy Sandowsky known as the strikers’ Joan of Arc. She has been arrested several times. Jack Rubenstein, another leader who has been taken Into custody for a number of alleged disorders, also re- cefved blows. Mary Stanzinger, strikers’ committee Washington recently, rested. The clash occurred after strikers,| who had picketed Botany Mills, marched into Wallington to meet a force of several hundred which pick- eted Garfield Mills. The combined forces then attempted | 10 return to Passaic through Walling- ton to picket Gera Mills. They were met on the bridge by Passai® police. AIR MVAIIAL LINK ObENED. ] All Pacific Coast Cities Now Within 40 Hours of New York. PASCO, Wash. April 6 (#).—Bring- ing virtually every city in Pacific Northwest to within approximately 40 hours of New York, the air mail serv- ice between Pasco, Wash., and Elko, Nev., was scheduled to start today. More than 5,000 visitors arrived in member of the which went to! also was ar-| will then go to the Government Print- ing Office, where they will be the (Continued on Page 2, Column 4. Mitchell, Mistaken for Gen. Hinds, Gets Hotel Room of Foe, Who Beats Retreat | By the Associated Press. ¢ FORT WORTH, Tex., April 6.—Wil- liam Mitchell, former chief of the Air Service, yesterday won a victory over Maj. Gen. Ernest Hinds, who filed the charges which resulted in his recent suspension, when the latter withdrew from a suite of rooms reserved for him nlnd left the “stormy petrel” in posses- sion. Col. Mitchell, who arrived here Sun- day to lecture last night. was mis- taken by a hotel clerk for Gen. IHinds Pasco yesterday to see the two planes take off today for Elko with the first loads of mail for the East and was installed in the reserved suite. ‘When the commanding general of the 8th Corps Area came in yesterday morning to inspect the R. O. T. C. the committee which had made the reser- vation tooK him directly to his rooms. ‘They found Col. Mitchell at breakfast. The former brothers-in-arms greeted each other cordially, after which Gen. Hinds withdrew, explaining that there had been a mistake, but leaving the other in ignorance of the fact that he | on not_sufficient evidence to uphold his tion in court. Gen. Andrews insisted that what he wished was an ‘“‘adminis ve' au thority, to be used with discretion and taking into consideration the needs of the business. The Missouri Senator, however, de ared that it was an ‘“arbitrary power and would be so exercised. Gen. Andrews, replying to a ques tion by Senator Reed as to the prob- able percentage of seizures by the Gov ernment of liquor smuggled into t country, sald that he did not believ that 5 per cent of the total amount brought in had been seized. Says Large Force Vital. He insisted, however, that with an increase in the number of agents along the Canadian and Mexican bor ders it would be possible to preverit the smuggling of liquor “in commer cial quantities.” Prior to the testimony of Gen. An drews, Senator Edge of New Jerse: made a statement to the committee. upholding the constitutionality of his bill proposing a national referendum the modification of the Volstead act, and Mr. Codman submitted to the committee requests for subpoenas for pos | a_number of witnesses from Boston, New York and Florida, which pre. viously had been denied. Chairman leans announced that the committee would take the requests under advise- ment. George Brennan, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Senator in Illinois on a ‘“‘wet” platform, and « | sroup of Chicago officlals are expect ed here today or tomorrow to take the stand in support of modification of the prohibition laws. Others whom Mr. Codman asked tie committee to summon were: M. B Wellborn, governor of the Federal Re. serve Bank of Atlanta, Ga., who re cently wrote to Representative Up shaw of Georgla describing conditions as extremely “‘wet” in that State: Mrs. Viola Anglin, deputy chief probation officer, Magistrate's Court, New York Sheriff Bob Baker of Palm Beach: Ro and Corry of Key West, sheriff o Monroe County, Fla., and T. Pope Shepherd of Chattanooga. Tenn. Senator Reed moved that the com: mittee subpoena the witnesses desired by Mr. Codman. His motion will be acted on later by the committee in ex ecutive session. Senator Edge called the attention of the committee to the fact that the Democratic national convention in 1924 had adopted as part of the party platform a plank calling for a nation al referendum on whether the United States should go into the League of Nations, and with what reservations if any. Senator Walsh of Montana. 2 member of the Senate committee, | he said, had presided over that con vention. “With such precedent for congres sional action,” said Senator Edge, “1 am sure it will be quite unnecessary for me to furnish further authority.” You think,” said Senator Reed “that it is impossible that the Demo cratic conventlon couid bLe Wroms about the constitutionality of such « proposal.” Means Rejects Premise. “You can't expect me to accepi such an _argument,” commented Chairman Means, a Republican. “I am sufficiently broad to accept it,” sald Senator Edge. Mr. Codman asked the committee to subpeona Mrs. Eva V. White of Boston, saying: “I am informed that Mrs. White who is the manager of the Elizabeth Peabody Settlement House, situated in Boston, can testify as to the in- jurious effect which has been brought about by prohibition upon the poor people of the district in which the Elizabeth Peabody House is situated. That she has had 15 years’ experience in the district nine years before pro. hibition and six years since. That she will state that neighborhood dances have had to be abandoned on account of the hip-pocket flasks fllled with liquor brought by boys to these dances and disseminated by them. She can also testify to the fact that many families previously in very poor cir- cumstances have become faily well to do as the result of having gone into the bootlegging business on a was enjoyving rooms reserved for his onc-time superior. , small seale. That conditions through- * 1+ (Continued on Page 2, Column 2 v