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WEATHER. (0. & Weather Bureau Forecast.) Showers this afternoon followed hy génerally fair and colder tomorrow. Highest, 71, at 5 pn lowest, 60, at 3 a.m. toda Full report on page 9. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 Entered as sec: post office, JURY TRIAL DENIAL . INMINGR LIOUOR No. 29.927. ' ASESISPROPOSED Buckner Makes Impassioned Appeal for Move Before Senate Inquirers. DESPAIRS OF SUCCESS OF PRESENT PROCEDURE Says Cost of Enforcement in New York Could Be Cut to $15.- 000,000 Yearly. Closing twn days of eloquen' testi mony hefore the Senate judiciary &uhcommittee inquiring ‘into proposals the modification of the Volstead Jaw, District Attorney Emory R Ruckner of New York today made an impassioned appsil o the nnoli “ion of trials eriv prohib inn cases: hizher for pro hihition agents and more indzes and ourts in New York Stats ' the 1s 1o be adequately enforced he witness estimated that the an nual cost to New York State if jury trials were not abollshel would he $75.000,000, and that 85 courts and 150 additional judxes would have he employed. With the iholition of the trial by jury in such cases and the establishment of ceurts similar jury salaries 1 to the Special Sessions Court of New | York City, the cost of enf. mcludine” prohibition agenis would be reduced to $15.000,000, witness declared. In Despair Over Task. The ione of the district attorney's testimony today was one of despait orer the task ziven the skeleton force of agents in entorcing the law and the difficulty in obuaininz convie tions. A direct slap at tne «la tion of gullty pleas and fines victions” was given “those crzani tions” who use these 1nstances arguments for the effectiveness prohibition. “I think,” sald the witness, “tha the calling of a plea of guilty a ‘convi tion" and spelled with a capital ‘C" in the records of the Department of Jus- tice and used by those organizations throughout the country as arguments tn favor of enforcement. is very mis- leading. In my judgment. a plea of zuilty and a fine is not a conviction from the standpoint of a prosecutor. have collected $265.000 in fines, point to it with pride. T 1shamed of it. T am much more proud of the 150 men I have put in mil. As a prosecutor, I don’t want any of the | dirty money of a lawbreaker. A prose- | cutor should want the man's liberty tor vielating the la#." At the outset of foday's session. fenator Means of Cblorado, chairman of the subcommittee, declared he was “astounded” at_the figures given terday by Mr. Buckner, which showed. | according to the witness. there were | 60.000,000 gallons of alcohol diverted annually to the bootleg trade. of Questions Reasoning. “I have reread your testimony,” said the Senator, “and it as such importance as to vou arrived at that e Tou got those figures.’ Mr. Buckner replied that statistics ending June 30, 1920, showed 21,000,000 zallons of industrial aledhol had been Wwithdrawn from distilleries on permit and that on June 30, 1325, 88.000.000 zallons had heen withdrawn under the <ame condition. That leaves a dis cvepancy of §,,000,000. he explained. | and a careful study of the apparent legitimate nses of it ini the arts. chem fstry, automobiles_etc., hefore the war leads to tha conclusion that the an- nual increase for these purposes was | 1.000,000 gallons a vear. We, therefore, thought a suitable | growth in the use of alcohol for in- Austrial purposes in the last five vears | would bhe 5,000,000 zallons. Tiwenty-six from 88 leaves 2,000,000 gallons un- accounted for.” H “Rut.” interrupted Senator Means. “the Government records show that | 24.000,000 zallons were withdrawn last vear for anti-freeze solutions in auto. | mobiles | That's Sust where the nizger in the woodpile fs," replied the witness, amid Iaughter. imate and how “Could that amount have heen used In automobiles for anti Senator Means You've got to study the industry. | We had lots of automobiles in 19 and 1922 and our figures for the uses of alcohnl have taken into considel tion the growth of automobiles. But T will =end ou a memorandum on that subject.” Senator Harreld of Oklahoma asked if_the §0,000,000-gallon estimate was ! \hased on the assumption that every gallon was diluted, double or triple. No. sir." replied Mr. = pure alcohol. [ don't assume a honded distillery sells diluted alcohol.” Reading from a memorandum which he said was given to him personally by Gen. Linceln C. Andrews. which the latter used in an arzument for in- creased appropriations for enforce- ment, Mr. Buckner said in Philadel- phia, where there is a State enforce- ment law, agents deprived the liquor trafic of over 1,000,000 galons of alco- hol a month This represents $50.000.000 2 month collected by the bootlezgers.” said Mr. Buckner, who explained the activity tool place last August. ‘‘Here you have a mere vest-pocket squad reduc- inz. without any effort, 12,000,000 gal Washinzton, * | Chia .| pitched battle Tuesday around | plot agains: this country, | solini, Buckner. | tonight and L. yesterday: ond class mal tter B, C. i The #n WASHI |OIL FIELD ABANDONED TO FLAMES AS LOSS SOARS ABOVE $10,000,000 | Mile-Long Flames Sweeping 300-Acre Farm Afler‘jflURNAl_IS]’s m Am’ Blazing Underground Tanks Boil Over—Rain Adds to Fierceness of Conflagration. ANAHEIV, Calif., April 8 (). — - Two 750.000 - barre! . capacity oil tanks of the Union 0l Co. at Brea, A tank fleld six- miles north of here, were struck by lightning and set afire today. By the Ascociated Press. SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., April & “The 300-acre tank farm of the Union Ol ¢ mile and a half south of ihere. at which werc stored some £.000,000 barrels of ofl. was ahandoned early today to the fire, which had threatened "its destruction since ves tergay morning. when twe under- ground tanks were struck by light- ning. Four huve underground reservoirs, to which the blaze had been confined all dav yvesterday and last night, bofled over shortly before 1 o'clock this morning and flaming ofl, sweep ing over a dike that had been thrown carried the fire to other reservoirs and 10 surface tanks., Other surface tanks were rapidly ignited. The Standard Oil tanker Schofield ived 2t Avila. Port San Luis. [ night and immediatelv hezan dr up. that peint. The Monthello was due vent congeéstion at Union Ol tanker today. e hecame apparent that the property was doomed, the several hun- dred men who had heen fizhting the fire all of vesterdav and last nizht were ordered from the.field believed they all escaped. trucks were abandoned to the flames. As the fire spread from tank to tank it created a flame a mile long, witk the blaze shooting from 30 to 60 feet it into the sky. Damage ‘vill amount to millions of (Continued on Page 7, Coluinn 1) FASCIST STUDENTS MAUL FOREIGNERS From Italy—Trouble in Sicily Fol- lows Attack on Mussolini. 3 Demand Expulsion | By the Associated Press. VIENNA, Austria, patch from Padua, Italy, says that studenis in the Padua Uni versity this morning attacked and badly mauled their foreign fellow stu- | dents, demanding their immediate ex- I pulsion from the university and fro ! Ttaly. | Outbreak n Siclly. LONDON. April § (P).—A dispatch to the Herald, the Labor organ, frem “hiasso, Switzerland. says guerilla warfare is raging hetween the Fascists |and anti-Fascists in the Province of ! Palermo, Sicily. The nawspaper say April 8. A dis. there was a the which eventually with 20 pris. mayor and a village of Capaci, the Fascists captured oners, including the I priest. The casualties are not anti-Fascists tains, PREMIER GETS OVATIO) known. The retired into the moun- Cheered on Arrival in Fiumicino to Begin Voyage. FIUMICINO, Italy. April §8 (#).— Premier Mussolini was given an ov | ton on his arrival here teday to be- gine his vovage to Tripoh. As he boarded the dreadnought Conte di Cavour, the ecrew was lined up on the deck and in the rigging. Bugles were sounded and the men sreeted him with hurrahs, while si- rens shrieked and the other warships in the harbor saluted. Police and carabiniers had a hard struggle to protect the premier from his admirers and it was with diffi- culty that he reached the pler. All about him the people surged, applauding and shouting: “Viva Mus. solini’: “Viva 1l Duce!” and “Viva Pasecimo!” MASONIC PLOT BLAMED. Paper Ascribes Attack to Interna- tional Campaign. MILAN, Italy, April 8 (®.—Popolo d’'ltalla today ascribes the attack against the life of Premier Mussolini to an international Masonic cam- paign agalnst the Italian premier and Fascismo. “But while God has saved the pre- cious life of the premier, he himself will know how 1o destroy the foreign " the paper adds, PASSES EXCELLENT NIGHT. Premier Leaves for Trip In Condition. ROME. April 8 (#).—Premier Mus- after having passed an excel- lent night, left his residence at $:30 o'clock this morning for Fiumincino. Gov. Cremonesi . Rome sent a tele- zram of farewell to Mussolinl aboard the battleship Conte di Cavour, saying: “The people of Rome, who yesterday palpitated with great anxiety because of the detestable attempt against you and thanked the God that preserved Good Iyour lite for the mother country, fol- low you v with their thoughts and their hearts in your voyage, which shows Italy the road to future great. Ra | ness. “The people of Rome renew to yi their oath of fidelity, devotion al discipline.” Will Live in Danger. Mussolini is determined to fight for the principles of Facism throughout the world “I have chosen as the slogan of my |life. “Live in danger’ And 1 say as {an ‘old, fighter: When I advance,’ fol- | low me: when T retreat, kill me; should |1 die, avenge me."” Thus Mussolini ended an address to the new directorate of the Fascist i party only a few hours after he had {been shot through the nose vesterday. i Mussolini, as in the case when the ! plot to kill him on the occasion of the | celebration of the anniversary of the Italo-Austrian armistice was discov- ered, warned the people, saying: “I ido not desire reprisals. This is my Jont 3 year In Philadelphia and 15, | WilL" 800,000 zallons a vear in New York | and Philadelphia This { slightly more than onefourth of my estimate | Throughout the country processions of 60,000,000 gallons whieh has heen | were formed and the escape of-the pre- and will he attacked by other wit- | mier was acclaimed. Bells were rung; nesses. 3y | solemn te deums were sung. The at- tack on the premier, it is helieved, will |be certain to make him more of an B < 1y |10l than ever. _“But von must not he too quickly | Tnegpite warnings there were some rizhed off vour feet by talking about | qortR0 L pion < against opposition pa- inti-freeze, when these men get !5.-“""‘4 Oho.ne zallons from the twe cities. 1| ™ The directorate of the Fasclst party, should he very much surprised if 60,- | (K PTEEN ) dtiorice Palace last 000,000 gallons is not accurate. May- night, was informed by the premier :\‘,:,, s 55,000,000 I'll even take 50, | that it must maintain the party in the i [ highest state of efclency. " N i ““We have won our , Tonies el o !he said. “We can truly afirm that Senator Reed of Missouri wanted to | the old parties haev been put to rout know if the 60,000,000-gallon estimate | and that the old regime is destroyed. embraced alcohol specially denatured | But our battle is not yet won abroad. for perfumes, tonics and lotions and | It is becoming harder and always more had been redistilled for heverage pur- |dificult. We represent a new prin- poses. ciple in the world. We represent the 8 far as we know, n replied re. categoric (Continued on Page -7, Column 5.) (Continued on P People Rejoice at Escape. Warns Against Credulity. : . Column 3.) \ | ' | apaprently YOUNG ROBINSON ANNESIA VT Dazed in Front of Hotel in Rochester. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK. April 5. Rohinson, 2l-year-old son of Theodore Douzlas Robinson, Assistant Secr of the Navy, was in a hospital havinzg heen missing from University for’ nearly a Douglas Harvard week The 2].vear-old freshman, whose absence caused his father to make A hurried ‘trip from Washington to Roston, was found lving dazed front of a North Fitzhugh street hotel by a patrolman carly this morning, his mind a blank. Believing the vouth had been struck by an automo- bile, the patyolman summoned an ambulance. At St. Mary's Hosrital after some questioning the youth mumbled that his name was Douglas Robinson and produced his father's personal card. Suffers From Amnesia. Hospital physicians said that he was suffering from amnesia breakdown brought Ther they said. and the to explain his ind A nervous on by overstudy. lapse of memory vouth was unable presence in Rochester. fans explained, however, that he ap- peared 10 be in zood physical conds- tion and that his chief wersy scamed to be tear of involvinz his family in_undue publicity. Police began an attempt to unyavel the mystery surrounding names found in a diary in Robinson's pocket. The nook mentions “William John- son No. 90 Second street, Kelley,” with no address, and under the names had the notation, “will Le In Rochester before April 20. The youth was unable to explain the notations. Robinson had been since Monday, when he registered at a hotel. He checked out Tuesday afternoon, after a college concert and dance early vesterday morning. These friends said he appeared to be in good health and was jovial while with them. At the hospital it was said Robinson did not recall having heen at the hotel, nor did he seem to re- member having talked with his triends. Had But Little Money. In addition to the diary and his fa- ther's personal card, the hospital au- his own motor vehicle operator’s li- Drug Store of Cambridge. a_member- ship card of a New York clyb, a pho- tograph of a girl, several time tables and $1.05 in change. Two bags in his possession when he left the hotel could not be located. The youth’s father at Boston tele- phoned the hospital and arranged to come to Rochester at once with Mrs. Robinson. The father retired last night thinking his son had gone to sea. Albert Harris. one of the friends who had talked with young Robinson, said Robinson told him he was in Rochester on business for his father. Harris identified the Jane Kelle: mentioned in Robinson's diary as a Rochester girl to whom he had intro- duced the student. PARENTS GOING TO BOY. Travel on Mitk and Newspaper Train on Way West. BOSTON. April 8 (#).—Theodore Douglas Robinson, Assistant Secre- tary of the Navy, and Mrs. Robinson left this morning for Rochester, . Y.. where their son Donglas, miss- ing Harvard sophomor: has been discovered an amnesia victim in St. Mary's Hospital. They went at 4:15 a.m. on A combi- nation milk and newspaper train that carried only two dimly lighted day 'the’ and that ‘::l\a scheduled to make every sto) tween - ham and Alhan_\'.pl\'. X; e Mrs, Robinson sent her son this i i “We are on our way. Rochester about 5 If we make_ton, nections. Longing to see vou. Don't worry abeut anything. Much love. Mother,"” o CONSULATE IS BOMBED. nd_definite antithesis | aeqlaring it a “child .hpunssg Structure in Shanghai Suffers Little Damage. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. SHANGHAL April 8.—An unknown assallant hurled a bomb this after- noon at the Japanese consulate, which is adjacent to the American consulate here. The explosive, thrown from an automobile which quickly disappeared in the darkness, tore a slight ‘hole in the wall around the Japanese consul- ate, but did not damage the building. The Japanese consul is unable to explain the motive bhehind the attack, attempt.” iCopyrizht, 1926, 1y Chicazo Daily News Co.) TON, oil from the Avila tank farm to pre | 1t was | Two motor | Missing Youth Found Lying1 in| had been a! The physi-| and “Jane | in Rochester | but was seen in the hotel by friends ! that | thorities found in Robinson’s pocKets | cense, 3 credit card on the Crimson | WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 7 Uiy PRESIDENT URGES D. THURSDAY, NEW WORLD ANITY i Stresses Opportunity to Open | Era of Better Understanding ! Among Republics. :EXCHANGE OF VIEWS HELD AS NEED IN AMERICAS | President Given Great Ovation by Pan-American Delegates as He Addresses Business Session. To'd by President Coolidge that the | i opportunity lay onen before them to | inaugurate a new era of closer friend- ship 2nd mutual understandine among | all the peoples of the New World. the | newspaper men of the Western Hem. 1 '&phere formally convened in the Hall nf the Americas this morning the | | Arst business session of the Ian-| | American Congress of Journalists. | ‘The President spoke from a dias | banked with the standards of all the | republics of the Americas, and hefore | him sat the men who are destined by | | profession to mold the epinions and erystalize the ideals of the peoples pf | those nations. And when he declared that the day of misunderstanding had pasced forever the applanse that foi | lowed teft no doubt that his audience agreed with that conviction. Spirit of Progress Reigns. The atmosphere in which the con gress formally embarked upon its se rious duties bespoke the coming of the | new era. Outside. just beneath the windows where the President spoke, a stern-faced Aztec god gazed gloom: {1y inte a pond of languid lotus | i blooms, yeminiscent of the ancient civilization that had prospered and | vanished centuries ago. But inside ' | the virile spirit of a new progress reigned. A fanfare of trumpets heralded the | arrival of President Coolidge. and as | he stepped upon the platform he was | | given an ovation by the delegates i from all countries. This demonstra- | tion wax repeated when he was intro duced by Dr. Walter Williams, the | permanent chairman of the congress, and several minutes elapsed hefore the | | President could begin his address. He | | was accompanied by his usual aldes. | At the outset President Coolidge | said that “in the number of countries i represented and in the extent of terri-{ | tory embraced” this congress “is with- out doubt one of the most important {meetings of publishers and editors | {that ever was held. And when it is| considered.” he added. “that within ‘our numbers are those who control nd shape the policfes of the press in! Almost all of the Western Hemisphere, the weight and significance of vour conferénce hecomes still more fmpres: | sive.” i Free Agents of Free Press. ““Possibilities of broad and beneficial | results lie in the very nature of the {untrammeled constituency of vour | | body." Mr. Coolidge said. “Your mem- bers in no wise represent their respec tive governments. You are here in your individual capacities as the free agents of a free press of free coun {tries, in voluntary conference to dis | cuss wavs and means of bringing the | people of the Western World to a| better understanding and more sym i pathetic_accord. The President pointed out there' has heen a common hond between the peoples of this country and Latin | America since their earliest estab- | | lishment, “But up to recent times; ! there has heen an unfortunate lack | of information on the part of the! general public of the United States | |of the aims and achievements of | those regions, and 1 am told a simi- lar condition in regard to the United | States has existed among their peo- i ple. i | “Such conditions,” he said, “can he | remedied only by the dissemination {of knowldege . As T understand | the purpose of your conference, it is not only for the forming of friend- i | | | : story APRIL 8, ening Star. 1926 —FIFTY-FOUR PAGES. ' w sHann % The every cit tion is de ar it * COOLIDGE O LEAD CLUB'S EXERCISES \Will Head World Notables | Taking Part in Corner Stone Laying. In the presence of a great threng of representatives nf newspapers the | world over. high Government officials | and citizens of Washington. President | Coolidge late this afternoon formally will dedicate the corner stone of the ten-million-dollar home of the Nation- al Press Club, construction of which is rapidly progressing on the site of the famous old Ebbitt Hotel at teenth and I streets. Final preparations for the reception of many noted guests and for carry- ing out the elaborately planned pro- gram have been completed. The cere- mony will be broadcast by a number of stations “hooked up’ for the acca sion to reach portions of hoth North | and South America. Amplifiers have heen installed to earry the voices of the speakers over the thoushnds ex- pected to attend. Among special guests of honor will he the President of the United States, South American editors and publish ers here for the Pan-American Pre congress, members of the President cabinet, members of Congress. gover. nors of States and Federal officials. Will Use Silver Trowel. Wielding a silver trowel, presented hy Secretary of Labor Davis, President will smooth the cement under the heavy marble block. mark ing formally the beginning of the 13. structure in which will he housed the offices of the newspaper men of all sections of the nation and most foreign countries, a new motion. picture theater and the quarters of | the Press Club. including dining roems, library. lounges. writing rooms, assembly hall and conference rooms. The exercises will bezin promptly at 14 0% States Marine Thomas Shahan. rector University of America. will pronoun; an invocation, following which Mme. Franees Peralta, soprana of the Met ropolitan Opera Co.. will sing “Amer- iea.” Ulric Rell, president of the National Ptess Cluh, then will speak on behalf of the club. While the corner stone nd. Right ~ Rev Four- | and local | the | ock with selections hy the United | of Catholic | D el icih dby. Prishient Coolidew the exchange of views and the:fina 3 9 | discussion of conditions and prob- | Henry L. Sweinhart, member of the Ilems as they come to the editor who| Press Building Corporation. will | i« striving to present to his read sketch the story of the club and tell |a true perspective of what is taking|©f the new mammoth home under | place in his own country and in |construction. . {other countries . . . ! Frank B. Noyes to Speak. | Blame Put on News. After the President has officially b i i v ve | K ing of the erection “Too few people in this country have | marked the beginn L7119 {an adequate idea of the immensity of | °f what i« to he a new Washingion | Latin America. * * ¢ In some measure | landmark, Frank B. Noves, presi | this has been due to the lack of infor. | o the, Asocion Fiss, snooren mation in our press. Some one has | A pren 1 4 remarked that there was a time “;‘h". ; g;"‘,;'"oa“r) mnd:‘-_ - mfll{h- n??,?"',f.-l‘.‘, :_1‘1‘ of our newspapers here by S ; o | might have imagined revolutions ""“'S:‘J.‘;’."P;‘;,.fl‘;;i‘“{);‘!n.';,';‘a’: ?:?;f\'flm" | volcanic disturbances were the chief | Santo Domingo, Domjmicen Renubiic, product of Latin Amflrir;‘\. p : T:‘n_-'mm- B a | “On the other hand the readers of | s, A - | Latin American papers got little idea | John Jox Fdson then w oo g e o of our national life from the accounts | the local business men, S i v | Franklin Rell, Engineer Commissioner of . train wrecks lynchings and divorces, | Franklin Rell, Enginest, Comniesion | which, it was said. constituted the |2f the District, { prineipal news printed there about our | The ceremony Wit be, cigser, YOI, I | souiitey THEL asy SERS phEsed. i nahl, dean of the Washington Cathe- {1 venture the prediction that as a re- | 2ahl. | sult of this congress the papers in the ; 92l E | Secretary of Treasury Mellon has nited States in the future, will pre.| : 43 | b five newly minted sent more complete and more accu. Gonated to the clu v esterday were placed in rate pictures of the cultural and in. | €0Ins. which vesterday 1 I Ansirial progress of Latin America, | f “OBPer T'":‘P‘a:‘fv“}‘::"f':;;-l a':"fw and that the press of those republics | ded; xiun e T e will give to their readers @ better un. | mony heid in the ofCCs B JHC S derstanding of the ideals and purposes | tlonal Press Bullding Corboration o of the United States. ithe Westover Building. Also in the I box were placed copies of all Wash- Expression of Good Will. !ington newspapers published today a complete roster of the membership “The First Congress of Jotirnalists | of the club, a list of its charter mem. was a fine idea. I hope it will achieve | pers. a history of the first elub formed all that ity promoters could wish, It | {n Washington. a copy of a Congres- will be closed with a | seems to me it would be well if y gathering could be repeated period- \ically, possibly - alternating between | Latin America and the United States. | Such meetings cannot fail to have far-reaching consequence: in the preservation of the most cor- dial good feeling existing among our respective nations, but also in the drawing together of our peoples into closer bonds of sympathetic under- standing. “It should result in a better com- prehension that, after all, we of the Western Hemisphere are one people striving for a common purpose, ani- mated by comimon ‘ideals and bound together in a_common destiny. Unto us has been bequeathed the precious heritage and the high obligation of developing and consecrating a new ‘world to the great cause of humanity.' Immediately after concluding his address, the President returned to the White House and the congress settled down to take up the first subject for discussion on its program, viz.. “The ' ” (Continued on Page 6, Column 3.) ur | not only | sional Directort and an invitation | to the dedication event. ! Corporation in. Charge. In charge of the construction of { the new Press Club home and the en- tire business project is the National Press Building Corporation, which is headed by John Hays Hammond, who | has as his associates Henry L. Swein- hart, vice president; John Joy Edson, treasurer, and James Willlam Bryan, {chairman of the executive committee. Maj. Frnest Graves, U. S. A, r tired, has been placed in charge of the engineering of the’construction. The Press Club Building will be a monument architecturally as well as a great business office structure and home of the Washington correspond- ents. The exterior will be faced in marble, designed to create a building that will be an enduring monument (Continued on Page 7. Column 4) | iRadio Programs—Page 46, 11,500,000 Gallons | Of Rum Reported Smuggled to U. S. | N BY the Associated P LONPON. April 8.—An_esti of the United Kingdom Alliance is that bootlez whisky shipped indi rectly to the United States last vear approximated 1.,500.000 proof zallong, for which Scottish distil Jers received £2,000,000. Britain’s 1925 dring _hill of £315,761.000 works out at 7 pounds 4 shillings per head of the pop. ulation, but much less intoxicating liquor was consumed last year than hefore the war, the alliance reports Fiz consumption in 1913 and 1925 show that 28,713,000 zal lons of spirits were drunk in 1913, but only 14.010,000 in 1925: 33.960. ‘000 barrels of heer in 1313, as against 26,600,000 in 19 and 11.406.000 gallons of wines in 1913, against 91.000 in 19 RETIREMENTBILL ACTION 15 DOUBTED Smoot and Madden Say Measure, With Others, Will | Be Sidetracked. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. There will be no lezislation provid- ing for the reorganization of the | executive departments of tite Federal Government at this session of Con gress, ;and vel little likelihood of legislation liberalizing the retirement act for Government employes, accord- ing to Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Senate finance com- | mittee, and Representative Martin Madden of Illinois, chairman of the House appropriations committee, who onferred with the President today | regarding pending legislation. These leaders declared chances are slight that any great amount of pending legislation, other than the regular appropriation bills, will be passed before adjournment. It is ex- pected that most. of the remaining administration. measures will be lest in the shuffle during the eleventh-hour wind-up. T President was advised that indications point te adjournment hetween May 15 and June 1. Smoot Expects Delay. Senator Smoot was inclined to think June 1 would be closer to the adjournment time. but Mr. Madden felt fairly’satisfied that evervthing would be in shape- to close up as early as May 15. The purpose of the conference was to advise the President of the leg- islat; situation to date in the House and Senate. The President also wanted to know about certain legislation in which he is par- ticularly interested, and also if Congress would adhere to his warn- \ing regarding appropiating money other than what has been proposed in the budget estimates. Senator Smoot, who has for a number of years been advocating a complete reorganization of the Government department. said without any hesitation that there will be no re- organization legislation at this sesion. He explained that this does not mean that there is any notice- able opposition to thé proposition, but the attempt to effect reorgani- zatiogy has been temporarily dropped because more pressing matters are demapnding the attention of hothsthe Senate and House. He added also that there is a feeling among Sen- ators and Representatives 1o adjourn just as soon as they pass the last regular appropriation bill and dispose of several of the more urgent measures now pending. , The Senator included in the latter the public buildings bill, which he feels confident will be enacted; some form of farm relief legislation, and ratifi- cation of the Italian debt settiement. Shipping Legislation Doubtful. Both Senator Smoot and Represent- ative Madden doubt if there will be any legislation providing for the com- plete separation of the United States Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation along the lines per- sisteritly urged by President Coolidge. Senator Jones of Washington, chair- man of the commerce committee, has introduced a bill amending the mer- chant marine act, which would, among other things, take away all of the ex- ecutive and administrative powers of the Shipping Board and make the lat- | ter merely a semi-judicial and regu- latory agency. The President has been informed. however, that this (Contniued on Page 7, Column 3.) | Governor - General FISH ASKS PITILESS PUBLIGITY" ON COAL Proposes Bureau in I. C. C. to, Publish Facts—Scores “Invisible” Rule. Charginz that “invisihle sovern- ment” and ‘“professional lobbyists” have held up coal legislation for many vears and have even heen able to pre- | vent h: Hamilton Fish, York. today proposed to the House committee on interstate and foreign rings on coal, Representative commerce that a bureau to collect and | give “pitiless publicity” to all facts on coal be established in the Inter- state Commerce Commission. Branding anthracite dealers as “un- serupulous” and charging that they are now adding $1 and $2 to the price | of coal per ton to pay for the losses dyring the strike, Mr. Fish said. Con- gress will be held responsible by the people for. failure to act on coal legis- | lation. “Coal is the higgest single issue hefore this Congres: he said. It is even bigger and m important than the Mellon tax reduction plan. It affects the lives, health and happiness of millions of people, where the tax reduction plan affects a comparative few. It affects primarily pay the few additional dollars added on’ his coal bill serupulous an- thracite coal dealers.” Statement Challenged. Mr. Fish's statement that outside influence had heen brought on Con gress to prevent coal legislation was sharply challenged by committee members. Representative Parker of New York. chairman of the committee, said he had not been approached by any one to prevent even influence his opinion. seniatives’ Huddleston, Democrat, of Alabama. and Garber, Republican, of Oklahoma, both said they had not been influenced against toward coal legislation. “It took 20 years 1o get railroad legislation. working against powerful railroad lobbies,” Mr. Fish said. “and it took a score more of years to get through the parcel post measure, working against the express company 1 This Situation is even more intricate and delicate than either of the others, for it involves compulsory arbitration. emergency measures and other controversial issues. Mr. Fish said the first step in coal legislation is to create a fact-finding commission in the Interstate Com- lohb merce Commission to secure all facts | concerning production, distribution and price of coal and to give the ut- most publicity to its findings. Opposes Price Fixing. He announced he was against Gov- ernment ownership. price fixing and even emergency legislation, adding that he did not believe Congress would he able at the present session to get through a comprehensive meas- ure dealing with coal. “The fact finding body I propose is the founda- tion of the whole situation,” Mr. Fish said. “Congress has a paramount duty to protect the people. Next to water and food 1 regard coal as the most important factor in the life of the people. The public is being mulcted and is forced to pay exorbi- tant prices. 1 am here to make one demand of your committee—that it urge immediate constructive coal legislation at this session of Congre: and pass it.” Questioned by Mr. Parker, Mr. Fish said he helieved a continuous supply of coal from mine to consumer is even more important than the price of coal, even though price is an important fac- tor in so farasit appliestothe small " (Continued on Page 7, Column 2) EARL OF CAVAN FORESEEN AS CANADIAN GOVERNOR Former Chief of Staff Likely to Succeed Lord Byng, London ‘Paper Says. By the Aseociated Press. LONDON, April 8-—The Daily Graphic says it has excellent reasons for believing that the Earl of Cavan, former chief of the Imperial General Staff, will succeed Lord Byng, as Governor-General of Canada upon the expiration of Lord Byng's term of office in August. Lord Cavan recently resigned as Chief of Staff and it was stated that he would leave the army for good. He was aide-de-camp to Lord Stanley of Preston, when the latter was of Canada in 1888-93, . (#) Means Associated Pr . Republican of New | the poor | | man. for the rich man can afford to the hearing or | Repre. | proceeding | “From Press to Home Within the Hour” 's carrier system covers block and the regular edi- vered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 103,197 TWO CENTS. FENNING ACCUSED ' OF “BARRATRY" IN - SCATHING ATTACK Blanton Says District Head Solicited Lunacy Business. CITES INVESTIGATION IN CONGRESS IN 1906 156 Committed to Asylum in Last Four Months by D. C. Chiefs, Texan Avers. Unsparing in his characterizations | of Distriet Commissioner Frederick | A. Fenning in the House today, ae- cusing him of “harratry.” and charg ing that his record as Commissioner has been “one long list of blunders.” Representative Blanton, Democrat, of | Texas urged the House committes on rules to vote out and pass his resolution. which the committee hase held since March 23, and “let us ha |2 committee that will rlean up th | institutions and stop these abuse | Mr. Blanton told his colleagues ““The time has come when we must call 4 spade a spade. 1 have done [that in this discussion. On matters {of this importance to all the people |of the United States these abuses | have continued because there have | been ton many soft pedals and teo | many whitewashes.” Testimony and what he considered |as “damning” admissions made by Mr Fenning at a ronaressional invest: gation 20 vears age. which, he said, showed that Mr. Fenning admitted seeking a wholesale business in guardianship cases for former service men and others incarcerated in St | Elizabeth’s Hospital, “and all other institutions.” was presented to the House by Mr. Blanton. | He submitted a report made by | Gen. Hines. director of the Veterans' Bureau, that Mr. Fenning is recejv- inz 10 per cent of all the personal estate of shell-shocked ex-service men and 10 per cent of their annual income, B ts Alleged Payments. He asserted that the Veterans' | Bureau has paid Mr. Fenning “the | enormous sum of $733.855.87." He also presented a report from Herbert L. Davis, auditor for the Supreme Court of the District. to the effect that $109.070.25 had been paid to M: Fenning. Mr. Blanton reviewed | some recent cases of Commissioner Fenninz. and he emphasized the fact that the Commissioner is a di- rector of the National Savings and Trust Ce., in which institution he deposits all his fiduciary funds. | Characterizing as “a crime upon | common decency.” the case of Lieut. Francis D. Allen, for whom Com- | missioner Fenning acted as attorney, Mr. Blanton charged that this officer had been “shanghaied.” and told his colleagues how he himself had per sonally visited Lieut. Allen at St | Elizabeth's Hospital. “Commissioner Fenning grinds out lunatics by wholesale,” Mr. Blanton declared during his speech, and de- clared that “Cerporation Counsel Francis H. Stephens is under the absolute influence and control of Commissioner Frederick A. Fenning. who by a stroke of the pen could make or ruin him. During the last four months Corporation Counsel Stephens. on behalf of the Commis- sioners of the District, has had 150 human beings thrown into insane asvlums. either Gallinger or St Elizabeth's Hospital Presses Madden's Promise. Mr. Blanton cited one case in which Mr. Fenning “almost got a bonanza throuch appointment as receiver by Chief Justice McCoy over the objec. tion of the attorneys, but before he could qualify an appeal was taken, which prevented him from qualifving. “This was a case of immense propor- ‘tions, there being over $1.000,000 in cash on deposit.”” said Mr. Blanton. Reminding his colleagues of a prom. {se made by Chairman Madden of the House appropriations committee on the floor on March 18, when Mr. Blan. ton was endeavoring to persuade Con gress to put Commissioner Fenning out of office, that if Mr. Fenning was doing as Mr. Blanion claimed then “he ought to be put out of office.” Mr. Blanton told the House: “I have done the work of 20 men to gather this evidence and proof for Mr. Madden and the Congress. Now. what is goinz to be done about it? 1f Frederick A. Fenning does not have enough sense to resign, the President ought to kick him out of ofice with out ceremony. And 1 believe the President will do so. And if the President does not do =o, this Con sress ought to foree his expulsion from office. He ought to be in the penitentiary, and if the distriet at torney does his duty, he wifl be placed behind the bars, just as he kept poor Mrs. Corbett and her daughter behind the hars of St. Elizabeth’s for two vears and feur months and rohbed 'ihem while they were in there help- s | | | Charges Many Interests. That Commissioner Fenning “is in tevested in too many businesses in Washington" also was discussed by Mr. Blanton as part of the outcrop- pings of his investigation. He in serted letters showing that Mr. Fen ning is a director of the w Re- porter Printing Co.: that he has been on the pay roll of the Washington Gas Light Co. as an agent for col- lecting delinquent accounts, and he asked: “How may the people of Washing- ton expect Mr. Fenning to do justice to them as their Public Utility Com missioner when he has been on the pay roll of one of the big utility companies of Washington?" He also pointed out that he is a director of the Washington Loan and Trust Co.. attorney for the Medical Society of the District and that he and Dr. White “have been making namfl'l_\' investments together.” Mr. Blanton charged that the “king of all hootleggers” is being protected here, that hotels and taxicabs are being protected, and he challenged that “politics must not control,” say- inj K We must keep politics out of this question. Too many ex-service men are involved. It is true that when Frederick A. Fenning was appointed Commissioner he was then secretary of the local Republican organization hhere in Washingtan. And it is true “(Continued on Page 2, Cobuan 6.)