Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1926, Page 2

TS LR S - REVEALS ALCOHOL SOURCE IN ROCKIES U. S. Utah Agent Asks War- rants for Leaders in Al- leged Conspiracy. 1 | By the Associated Press. | SYRACUSE, N. Y., April 8.~ A con- | spiracy under which, the Government | charges. the oRcky Mountam region was kept supplied for seven months | last year with alcohol from Bufialy, | was ‘revealed here vesterday, when | a Department of Justice agent from | Salt Lake City, Utan. arrived here | and obtained warrants {rom ¢ : sloner. Henderson for l‘l\r- :r four alleged leaders of tl . w ring. The men. who were indictcd by | ampaign Chairman, the Northern and Central Distriet | of Columhia Memorial Com Court of Utah. are Louis Steinber:. | Federal-Ameriean National Bank. Louis Wallace. Norman Pearlman and | Harry Pearlman. Nine persons . e named in the in | dictment. _Amor/ them: are Ahs Wal lace and Harry Waitare of Salt T he City, brother and cousin, respeciive. | v, of Louis Wallace. The are residents of Nalt lake ¢in charged with essistinz in the dist bution of the aleohnl in 1he territe around Denver and who “vill be ar raigned. ii arrested. i the Utah dis trict hetween Address Office in Salt Lake City. The indictment charges the defend f | = Acceptance of Serv. I am willing to make a personal can THE ' EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. 0. "l‘HURSDA’Y.' APRIL 8, 1926, who were rep forces of the World War. those homes the veterans—or memories—are forever endea To com e the service from this the great conflict a commission created by Congress is planning to erect in Potomac Park a beautiful white marble temple at a cost of $200,000. > The commission wants responsible persons to canvass each city block for subscriptions to the memorial. Will some one in your family group do ¢l in honor of the one whose service is to be immortalized in stone? 1f so, Al out the form below. C€. sion Fund, street street and (Please be eract so as to avoid duplication.) Note—Mr. Poole will send full instructions and all necessary forms as soon | iwo and a half hou Ants with conepiracy against the Vol stead act and with nossession and trapsportation of large aquantities of s assignments can be determined. aleohn! It 1= charged specificallv that SOUGHT FOR SHRINE that $1.250 was sent June 3 to Louis! the Wallace here On Julv 6. it is alleged. Wallace and Steinberg shipped to &alt Lake by ox prese & larze ouantity of aleohol, On November 1 the ring rented another . place In Salt lake City for® distribu . o tien of the a'cohot the indictment | Drive for D. C. War Memorial mentioninz several times when the St o { .| toBe Carried to 71,000 Gov- Mountain Region Naturated.’ 1 ernment Employes. The Department of Justice agent ! ®aid that the Federal authorities at Salt Leke ity are in possession of ® mass of evidence proving the aleo hol. which. he suid. originally was oh. tained in Ruffalo. virtually had satu rated the Rocky Mountain regien. pre sentinz a stnhborn problem tn Ked azents and other law-enforcement in that territory. waid A representative of d States district attorney’s office in Utah will come to Svracuse to con. duct proceedings for removal of the oaies 1o the Utah Distrier Court, TREASURY CLERKS PETITION STOPPED Officials Hold Retirement A peal Should Not Be Sent in Official Way. Further plans were set at work itoday for carrving the project of the 1 $200.000 Distriet of Columbia Wi femorial direct to every Government worker in this city, At a meeting of the |of the Government { establishments with chairman At the Federal-Americnn Nationa! Bank, ways and means of carrving fnlfl the wishes of the President and ithe were discussed and bul | tetine taken (o he posted later thre hont the Government buildings W, Libber. chief clerk of Depsriment Commerce, speaking for the Association of Chief Clerks of which he i« chai V. expressed the apinion that with the authority of the esbinet hack of them the chie; clerke of the Governmeni should he #hle ta do much the canse No Subscription Lists, No nctual subscription lists will he ipasead nround threngh the depart | menis. but empioyve: are to he ne [ 1ified that contribuiions ean he ziven to the chie® cierks themselves Alre clos . come cah. ine: = precented their sub. ash the chisf clerks tha pole *opinion th be erected in the the chief elerks departments and Kl Poole ony He Unitey town dy, it we i hay thy o tnes o “Official machinery™ of the Treas. i Mr. Li b, ury Department may not he used by |PeARUL M tempie, 1 the orzanized clerks of the depart. |fomac P ith ment to appeal 1o the President for POl <ho more liberal retirement lexislats itizens oi Washingiwon to their b was ruled today by Acting Secretary |0u ihai evers Government Winston. who stopped a petition | “Nould (eel he should. take poit which had been under way . for abont The laies. figures irom the A week. Service Cownussion, h was The right of “individu i nounced, revea! te petition the Presiden . (At the present time there are abou aton said. would not hé abridged. but | 71.000 persons on the pay roil of the the department could not give its vernment, inciuding the Distriet sanction to a petition beinz circulatad ! 0f Columbia workers, through “officiul channels.” later o] Much interesi in the project be given to the Presidept on the mai. evidenced by the chief cierks, and ter. This would be too' mnch ke the | broposals as 1o just how the mat. department advising the President | ter shculd be submitted to the work how 1o conduct the Executive hranch |ers wevs discussed. The posiers. of the Government on # conivoversial | which will appesc shortly 1he auestion still pending. it was ex-!the eity on builetin hoards. contain plained. s picture and a deseription of the pro- Officials of the Treasury local nnfon posed memorial of the National Kederation of Fed. SR s eral Emploves explained that the peti- tion had been started about a week | ago. after official permission had bheen | sbtained. thev thought, te ulate CHILD'S CRIES SAVE e S W g FROM ASPHYXIATION employes Nr. Win The name of the official in the Tueas. | nry who had given this petition an | 0. K. was withheld he members of | the union Started Week Ago, fhe department the petition. it was explained by an official of the Treasuiy union. was put through the offices of the various | head clerks of the different bureau: Several copies of the petition wer being circulated. it was sxplained, and evidently the totai number of names subscribed te them mnst have been large by this time. Officials of the Tren said they understood thel petition had only been staried. and when first broughi to their attention, Tt had heen stopped . On hoth sides regret was sxpressed aver the turn matters hud taken, and 1t was described by both officials of the departme: tunate. Circulated in Al U. 8. Offices. The petition was short In language. reading as follow: \We, the under. signed emploves of the Treasury De. partment, respectfully reguest the President to lend his support te the liberalization of the retirement law, hoth as.to annuity and as to age limits,” At the headquarters of National! Federation of Iederal Employes, it was said that petitions for liberalized retirement were heing circulated in all of the Government establishments in Washington and in the field. through agencies of the local unions. What means were being used in the various places 1o circularize the clarks, was |10 return home today not known to headquarters here, it ANl oth: . except the vigitor, who was said, as the methods had heen de. | was not affected. were given firs: veloped by the locul unions them. [aid treatment. They had.recovered selves, who were responsible for car- | toda ving out the program . How the Treasury clerks muy cir- | ent cularize thems elves in the same ques. | ton was a troublesome question to. day. either officials of the depart. ment, nor of the employes union were ready to say how thi< might be done under the vegulations, or how ft might bhe attempted. Gasps Awaken Father, Who Res. cues Sleepers—Three Found Un- conscious—Five Affected. Starting through | i Gasping cries of Kdgar Kennedy, 4 i years old. forestalled the peril of gas asphyxiation for nine occupants of the home of his father, James Kennedy, colored. of 1616 Eighth sireet, early this morning. Five occupanis wer affecicd by the gas and three were found in an uneonsclons condition when the tathers roee dazedly and threw open windows af heing awakened hy the distressed gasps of the child. | A lesk in the gas pipe leading 1o a 2mployes and | jet in the basement kitchen of the N as “unfor-|home ix* held responsible by the family. The father, Estella. his wife: Mrs. Minnje Puckett, sister of the wife: Ed Fuller. brother of the wife; four children and a visitor. all colored. were sleeping in the house while the gas was flooding the rooms, Mrs. Kennedy stated today Edgar, the child, was in a serious condition when Dr. W. H. Greene, 702 P streer, arrived on the scene in response to an emergency call. Artifi- cial respiration was resorted to, after the child was apparent!ly dead. and he responded to the efforis. Mean. hily s. Kennedy and Mra. Pickett had hecome unconselous. They, with Edgar, were taken to Freedman's Hospita! in Dr. r(ieene’s automobile. | where they w ry. however in the house was cut off at the point by a policeman. FILM WILL.BE SHOWN. East Washington Community Cen- ter to Exhibit “Yorktown." The Fast the Community Cen Department il present the Yale Chronicle of Yorktown” tonight as the feature of the motion pictura program in the | usual weekly series at new Hastern High Auditorinm heginning prompt Iv at & o'clock. The public is in vited, L ing of Fall-Doheny Appeal Filed. Attornev Frank J, Hogan today filed in the District Court of Appeais the special appeal recently allowed b, that court from the decision of Justic Stafford of the District Supreme | Court sustzining the validity of the new conspiracy indictment against Edward L. Doheny. oli magnate of | Los Angeles, and Aiberi B. Fall, for- mer Becretary of the Interior Argument on the special appeal likely will not he heard until the Fall term of the appelalte tribumsii. will be preceded b the show th veels of Signal Corps pictures through the cooperation oi of the motion pleture divisin, in charge of Lieut. Harrison .iohnson In connection with this seriex of pictures. the six reels tefling the story of the congressional tonr from Ne: York to Alaska, via the Panima Canal, will he given on xeveral eve. nings before ‘the end of Motion picture program= under the suspices of the Community Center D!nlr“tmen! wift sontinue unti! Thurs. day, May 20. Spanish Flyers Off Again. BENGAZI. Cyrenaica. April 8 UP). —Capts. Loriga and Gallarza, mem hers of the Spanish flving expedition bound from MMadrid to Manila, left here at & a'closk this _mornipg for Caih, BTt E ~ eated and allowed | the campaign commitiee | adomied. | veflecting | . be a “memorial irom th= | if adopted. would divect the new Pub.i=om were surrounded by ‘the most or | Civil {10 ea an. | i that in Washing.n |and remodel them if found adequa | leaders for early consideration in the | | | | | | Washington Cenier of | the season. | PEPPER PROPOSES | Public Buildings Commission Would Be Reorganized Under Amendment. dition of Yesterd of the Public Kulldings Commission in connection with the carrying out of the large Federal huilding program now beink considered by Congress is proposed in an amendment prepared yesterday by Senutor Pepper of Pennsvivania i0 he offered when the public build ings bill is taken up for action in the Seonte A authe necessury ings, e creaies a new Publie Ruildings (¢ mission. of which ths Secratary ihe Treasnry would he chairman, «nd Jiaces the authority for the acquisi- 1on of the sitex in this commissi he other menbers of the com- ission by Senator Pepper vonid he 1 tmastes General, the director of public buildings and pub |lic parks of the National Capital, two | members of the Senate and two mem. bers of the House. The proposed amendment also would h in this new commiseion the fnetions which under the Senate bill sould be conterred upon the existing | Public Huildings Commission, which was created several vears ago to al- | ‘ocate apace in the Government build inzs in Washington, he amendment of From the 530 A reorganization he Secretary of the Treasury is ed und directed t land for new ator put enator Peppe |lie Buildings Commission th determine vhat bubldings, should he erected on Lavailable Government land and todld hority for the Secretary of the to purchase huildings ‘The public buildings bill. earrying $70.000.000 for the District of Colum Dia, $115.000,000 for posj offides and other cral structures throughout untry, has passed the ilouse, has b designated by Senate ind n Semate, PASTOR AND FAMILY {FOUND DEAD IN HOUSE! Russian Orthodox Priest, Wife and Son Discovered by Firemen. April 8. Firemen answering an alarm at the rectory of the Russian Orthodox Church hera today found the hodies of the pastor, Rev. Dr. Alex- ander H. Mikolin, 52, hiz wife and their 14-year-old son, Alexand with hullet wounds in their hea Although the authorities were un- able to ascertain who committed the crimes, thelr first helief was that the wha had recently returned mnitarinm, where he wax from a nervous hreak down, shot his wife and his son and then killed himself. Firemen at first believed the three persons were overcome hy smoke and it was not until they had taken them from the house that they learned they were dead. STORM CUTS OFF EAST COAST OF FLORIDA Slight Property Damage Results From Wind, Rain and Light- ning on Gulf, Ry the Associatad Press. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 8. Communications on the east coast of Florida were severed early today by @ high wind ¥nd électrical storm. For a short while all points south of Fort Pierce were cut off from the world. Meager reports from the storn® area indipated uaMt there was slight prop- erty damage and practjcally no cas- ualties, Davitona. Beach experienced a | drenching rain and wind storm, but no materinl damage was done. Titus- ville reporied an electrical and wind storm. Vera Beach and Fort Plerce reported conditions the same there. Reports from Fort Pierce were that the storm raged for more than an during which time a heavy sea nning. The disturbance abated Iy hefore daybreak. NEW ALIEN LAW READY. MEXICO CITY. April 18 (#).—The department of the interior, in re. sponse 1o a request of President Calle: has prepared a new immigration law which will be submitted to Congress. The bill would require @ tax on all incoming aliens and registration of all allens. Also it would prohibit the en- | trance of aliens purauing callings for- | bidden in Mexico. Thix clause could be applied to ministers of the gospel The chief axecutive would be author. ized 1o decide upon the question of ad missability of aliens, meaning that he. could refuse the admittanee of | person to the country. - CHANGE IN BOARD he bill was reporied (o the Sen- | scquire the | I“l build- | Popper's amendment | BY WILKINS PLANE { “Flying Devil” Scares Older Natives, But Children Are Merely Curious. (Special Corresnondence of The Star and the rth American Nawspaper Alliance.) | FAIRBANKS, Alaska. Aprll §.— | Capt. George Hubert Wilking and { Pilot _Ben Eielson, in monoplane | Alaskan, hopped off from Circle City for Falrbanks' vesterday. Capt. Wilking, in describing his pioneer fiight over Northern Alaska, said: | “We enccuntered the mest rugged enery 1 have ever seen in my ex- ploring _experience-—knife-edge and saw-tooth mountaln ranges piled one lafter the other .for undetermined | miles, each serrated horizon more | terrible than the one behind. Flying at 7,000 feet, we came finally | !to the tundra which liex bevond the ! {mountains—a frozen white expanse ar far ax our aching eves could ses Not a twig or tree or even a knoll broke the smowy monotony of it hut we did finally see three great | banda of caribou moving slowly over the waste, We flew bevond land to the east of Barrow—quite missed lt, in fact--and cruised for more than over the gray | { frozen Aretic Ocean hefore landing at | Barrow. Although we went perhaps {70 miles into the hitherto unexplored | area of the Polar Sea and cou | probably 50 to 70 more mies, we saw | no trace of land.” Natives Begin Dauce. In wild terror at the approach of | the roaring monopiane of Capt. Wil- Kins when he landed at Point Rarcow. Fskimos started their devii-chasing Aance to ward off the “Tinzmezon {Tonnk” or “fying devil.” as they | have styled the hiz Fokker mono- pane. The scene is described by Barl F. Hammond. advance man | 1of the Detroit Arctic expedition. who |arrived by sledge from Nome several | weeks ago to prepare the lanaing { fed at Barrow. His account. browght by C Wilking, who arrived here ' “Tingmezon.” follo since March 15, when 1 the Eskimos of € approaching visit, aver itx own -entinel posted. | waiching the southern sky for the! coming of the ‘grent purring bird They worked daily preparing the land ling field. and their excitement pyva-, mided each day as he did not come. Finallv on March 31. just before 3 b.mi., we all heard the distant thrum | ming . and out of the { blinding 5Ky the mono I plane emerged Execeeds City Excitement. “You may think you know what ex citement i# in the citios hut it could he nothing compated to (he thrill that passed ugh the | Jlony here, {The ¢ was Indescribable. Some of the clder Kskimos. although {they had been told what 1o expect. shouted that theTonuk' tthe devin | wae coming and started their devil- chasing dance. “There were loud cries: “The devil ix trying to zet indoors, and wne old Eskimo woman, who had been Christiunized by Archdeacon Stuck. | ihe famous missionary of the olden days, tushed into the Governmen; Hospital, sank to her knees and steried ving in Kekimo. The | vounger kimos, however, were mad | with curiosity and stampeded the | {1ocal school teacher in a rush for! the tandirg field. Wilkins and Ei i ! graphically ns {igloo had I hunch of kids, | | in the world at that time." Children Call Him “Cap.” i ““Fhe schoul children swamped the explorers with questions and hailed Wilkine a8 ‘Cap’ in friendiv K=k in | tashion. Mot of the Eskimos were | abnormally curious. but there was ione mam who could not he nersnaded {10 appreach the plane. He had been ldriving a dogteam sledge few miles fiom Barrow when the plan- scared Into his view. Terrified. ha hid under his «ledge for more than in h. and finally _eame driving into | settement ke mad. shonting he had seen the fiving devil.” orright. 1926 th American News- pavar Alliance.) wonld 1 exeited ventu the that | iD. C. GASOLINE PRICE UP | ANOTHER CENT A GALLON “Lacnl Companies Charging 22 | Cents Today. When Standard Sets New Wholesale Scale. NEW YORK, Aprii 8 (®).—The Standard Oil Company of New Jarsey, | today. advanced the tank-wagon price (of gasoline 1 cent a gallon in New Jersey, Marvland and Washington, making the quotation 17 cents, In ‘Weat Virginia the price was advanced 3 cent a gallon. also to 17 cents. Export gasoline, Navy grade, was increased 15 cant a gallon to 28.40 cents a gallon in cases. The Texas Company met the ad- jvance in Maryland and Washington. The Sfinclair Refining Company has advanced the price of gasoline in rail- road tank cars 1 cent to 13 cents a gallon at New York, Philadelphic and all Atlantic coast terminals. 1 | | | | i { { | { f Virtually all of the local wholesal. ers of gasoline of the various eom. panies announced a 1.cent increase in the tank-wagon price today, following the action of the Standard Ol Com. pany. This makes the retafl price 22 centx a gallon, including the 2.cent tax. Among the local companies an: nouncing’ the increase were the Standard, Texas, Penn Oil and Ameri. can Ol FIVE-YEAR NAVAL AR PLAN BEFORE HOUSE Firet Comprehensive Building Pro- gram Calls for 1,000 New Planes and Two Superdirigibles. For the first time In history a com- prehensive buliding program for na- val aviation was before the House to- day, with a general bullding up of the air service over a five.vear period as the objective. i Heretofore appropriations for the Navy and Army air services have been made from year to vear, with no ap- proved congressional plan for future expenditures. The program contemplates a total expenditure of $86,000.000 over the period, and will previde by the end of five years 1,000 new alrplanes and two dirigihles, each three times the size of the wrecked Shenandoah. A somewhat similar program for the Army air service has been reported hy the military committee and is expect- @d to be called up later. ;" BIERPSERN by DIRIGIBLE TEST HALTED. ROME, April 8 (#).—The departure of the dirigihle Norge on the first leg of its journey to Oslo, preparatory to the attempt of the Amundsen-Ells- worth expedition to fly to the North Pole, was: postponed 1 on ac nt of unfaverable w‘!“.h"v | this whole situation here concerning [ the President | ansinte 1the law which pr. jup law |finance of Frederick A. ! invita | noticed that sincs 1 have started (his !the R ! sent toeRt. Elizabeth's Haspital, under {ter of a century, and began with an | Nevitt, { {of facts.” {press of Washington was charging Dr. Cites (Continued from First Page) that " Edward " F. ¢ lladay, natfonal Republican committeeman of the Dis- trict of Columbia, is backing Mr. Fen- ning and trying to proteet him. Resolution Is Pending, “My resolution for the appointment of a_joInt.committee. five Senators and five Congressmen, 1o investigate treatment of our veterans of the vari. our wark has been held in the com. mittee on rules since March 2%, 1926. I trust that this committee wiil now report it ont promptiy Declaring that “Frederick A. Fen. ning has violated the law,” Mr. Rlan- ton pointed out that €ommissioner Fenning s appointed to hix office by of the United States, and said: “'Such appeointment 1= ‘hy and with the consent of the Senate,’ and has to he confirmed by the Senate of the| United States. Thix Government payd| part of his salary. The Distriet of Columbla In the seat of the Gavern ment of the United States: 3 on 5498, page 1066, of the Re vised Statutes of the United States | provides Fivery officer of the United | lailes, or person holding any place | of trust or profit, or discharging an official function under or In connection with, any executive department of the | Government of the United States, o under the Senate or House or Repre sentutives of the United States, who ACLA A% AN AgeNt or attorney for prose. cuting any claim against the United States. or in any manner, or by any | meuns. otherwise than in discharge of his pr official dniies, aids or | cution or support | such claim. or receives anv | gratuity or any share of or interest fn any claim from any - claimant AgAINSt the United States, with intent 1o ald or asaist. or in consideration of having aided or assisted, in the prose. cution of auch claim, shall pay a fine of not more than $5.000 or suffer im prisonment not more than one vear. hoth.} i of any or “Seuth Law Rusiness.” “He has certainly violated the above | law. And he has certainly violated | vents a lawyer from | 1aw business and workine cAsex for clients whose busi. ! ness he solicits. “I have receivad due notice that if I pressed this matter | would be fought higger institu an-F'rederick A. Fenning and Willlam A. White. If they can ruin me, then let me he ruine Tam fully consclous of the power and in. | Fenning. 1| Am beginning already to feel it. The | ion to an important hanquer | banquet here last night wase. with- drawn because of his influence, but 1 | will survive missing that. The Invita. tion which 1 have carried in my pocker | several weeka to the important han Quet tontght has been withdrawn, but I Wil survive that, ton. soliciting | i And T have | Investigation of Commissioner Fen. ning the usual monthly invitatien to d of Trade bhangnet, which for the past three vears hasx heen com. ing to ‘me regularly. did not come respecting the last ene. But I will survive that also. T-went to such meetings, anyway. only to gather ln- formation to enable me to pass intelli. gently upon legislation concerning the | valfare of the Distriet of Columbia. And. except on three ocensions. T have never stayed.for their supper part of I, hence it will not he much loss ta me, "It is the practice here In the Di triet, when police anthviftiee frst take into their enstodv any person alleged 10 be of uns=ound mind 10 Gallinger Hospi from whenee sooner 10 send them | | for ohservation. o later they are which is known as a eertificate for 30 davs, It is interesting to note that in the recent District appropriation hill 3 the next fiscal vear the sum of $§37.- 559 is earried for Gallinger Hospital, “In making this investigation and urging the removal of Frederick A~ “enning, Dr. Willlam A. White and Willlam Woiff Smith, 1 am actuated by no malice whatever. I am simply doing my duty to the veterans of all ars who have heen denied their rights hecause of the wrongful acts of thes=e three men. And we must re. nember that the Navy has a regula. tion which must he changed. Blanton €harges Collusion, Mr. Blanton charged that his investi. gation has disclosed that a “combin tion and concert of action between I William A White, superintendent of St #lizabeth’s, and Frederick A. Fen- hing, Commissioner of the District of Columbia, extended heck for a quar. exploitation of veterans of the Civil War"" He also claimed that aiders and abettors of this combination during a aquarter of a century have been “Un. dertaker Gawler and Dr. J. Ramsay coroner of the District, and brother-inlaw ‘of Commissioner Fen- ning.** Mr., ack: Blanton told the House that cking thie combination has led an almoat unhelievable state He called atténtion that 20 years ago the public was aroused to this condition. saving: “In_April, 1906, 20 r years ago. the William A. White and Frederick A. Fenning with high crimes and mie- demeanors. The Medico-Legal Society, composed of physicians and attornevs of Washington, was likewise charging them with many improper practices. Frank Clark, until recently our col- leagite from Florida, also was charg- ing an unlawful combination between Dr. White and Mr. Fenning. He intro. duced a resolution for a special com- mittee of five to Investigate St. Kliza- heth's. which passed, but when the committee was appointed Frank Clark was not included in ite personnel. Abeused Were Present. ““'he committee organized on May 4, 1906, with Dr. White and Mr. Fen- ning present. From the dusty hase- ment of the Capitol 1 have secured a copy of thewe Interesting hearings of 2,251 printed pages. Three members voted a whitewash, and it would seem their report evidently was written by Dr. White himself, while the other two members, James Hay and Robert M. Wallace, filed their sgparate re- W;!r. Blanton quoted extracts from his minority report, which stated that patients had been treated cruelly; that the management “must be faulty”: that callousness was displayed by phy- sicians and attendants; that testi- mony showed the tood was bad, al- though the Government makes very generous appropriation for the care of these unfortunat He quoted also from the report “that the man- ner of eommitment of soldiers and waflore 1o the hospital is not in accord with the principle of law and justice. Cites Alleged Injustices. He also quoted from the report & statement that mbn have been ~om- mitted to the hospital who are not In- sane, as follows: “But_the case of the soldiers sent to the hospital from the different sol- | dfers’ homes i» aven worze. They are commitied ‘to the hoepital upon the order of the ‘Dresident of the board of of the National Homs for Disal Volunteer Soldiers. proe ege of any kind 18 invoked. And from | Testimony Given at Investigation of St. Eliza- beth’s Hospital in 1906 to Prove Allegation of Barratry. | the committee, | dlcians | by Mr. Fenning,. ih | ment | I8 not sought ar the evidence It appears that the presi- dent acta upon fhe ipse dixit of the surgeons ‘of the differapt homes. Surely a jury trial ought to be had in these cases, especially when it ap- pears that men have heen committed to the hospital who were not insane.” | This report also stated that there has been “loose mansgement of the financea of the institution; there have arisen a good many abuses. &/ Mr. Blanton sald that “ss Fredeg . Kenning was merely a pri lawyer and not then a public officie} he was not mentioned in the report,’ but emphasizes that he was mentioned,| in the evidence. He quotes a staie- nent by former Representative Frank ark of Florida, in the presence of Mi”. Fenning at these hearings, as follows: “We expect to show, Mr that it has been the c White to go Into court in proceedings and ask for a writ lunacy to be issued in the case of | some old soldier Incarcerated in the | asylum, and that ft was his invari- | able practice in the petition for the writ to name Mr. Fenning as the proper person to he named as the committee of the lunatic, Mr. Fenning heing an atiorney here in the city. We expect to show that usually the attorney who drafted the petition was Mr. Fenning's law partner, and that e received a fee. Mr. Fenning, as recelved a fee of 10 per cent, and the court officlals re- ceived fees, all out of the pittance due | to the old soldier by the Government. | Our insistence is that a man should not he incarcerated in this hospital for the insane until his insanity has heen determined. Chairman, | Fenning Accused of Interference, | Mr. Blanton stated that while Mr. | lark was denied the right to ques. | witneates. Mr. Fenning ‘“hutred n. attempting to discredit witnesses.” Mr. Blanton auoted testimony against | Mr. Fenning 20 vears ago at the hearings by Judge A. W. Thomax! under vath, as follows: “1 have had several habeas corpus cases, in bringing inmates hefore the courts. Mr. Fenning, 2 member | of the law firm of Coldren and Fen. ning. practicing attorneys, was mittes Bo 1 examined the d of the Supreme o of the Distriet of Columbia. and T found that from September %, 1904, to November %3 1905, Mr, Frederick A. Fenring had been appointed committes in 52 ca by the court: that fally three-fo.rths of those cases were cases of ohd soldiers. The old soldiers. in (he great majority of those casee—in nearly all. in fact—were pensioners. found that in nearly three-fourths of appointed the “commirtes of soldier upon the petition of 1he intendent, William \. White recomnonded and suggested hic ap. pointment. 1 found tnat ihe petition of Bupt. White was drawn «n -he lat. terheud and on the legal cap-paper and other paper of the law firm of Coldren and Fenning. 1 found that u.l‘dl chowed that the law firm ot Coldren and Fenning repre<ented the petitioner, W. A Whiie, in the pro. ceedings. I found thai 1n lowking over the papers thut My ren, 1he law partner of M, ning was chaiging. and was allowed. a foe for Arawing these patitions of 310, §1¢ 820. and in some caces $30, The drar . n& of the petition was a mere trivyl matter. Any attorney could diaw that very veadily. I found that when the petition Sent 0 the court it was usually accompanied by the 4m Aavit of two sf the Dracticing phy u under Balary.ai the asyium or that, man fn vh setlement hax haan na the cuse have peceived At ogenrred (o Mr. Fenning that of & mere the ers whe A fee of 310 or more. me that “the interest |, in these cddes wae n, indiffevent person, Charged Committee Unnecessary “The courts usuali mittee for the war and 50 points attorney Appoint a com- of the Govern- the court Ap- 'h"l the appointment er, nor is it sougl AMer as a source of revenus A t seemed to me t . Attitude in the vase wa o, fessional committeeman, a he was largely aided by’ 8, who in nine-tenths of the gested his appointment, to me that the appeintmen, mittee in these cases fluous. The pensions diers anmount to $1.200° or $2.000," L CIUNE_a pacticular. case, dudge Thomas "said that “Mr. Fenning's at. titude has not been one such as an ordinary _committeeman would show. He has placed every obstacle find de. lay he could to investigate the man's sanity.” Judge Thomas also teatified u‘mK Judge Kiafrord said to Mr. Fen- ning: “This_money- belongs to this man: he in entitled to It and 1 order you to pay down’$200 cash’ now to him, and then you can 8etermine the rest.” Speeific Cane Cited. Calling attention to Mr. Fenning's conduct as guardian for a veteran of the Civil War, Mr. Bianton said: “One of the said wardé of Mr, Fen. ning. about whom Judge Thomas tes. tified, Mr. Willlam. 1. Logue. under oath testified at said hearing that he served In the Federal Armv dnring the Civil War. and continued to serve In sald Army for 20 years; that he had been drawing a pension since 1885; that he was sent to St. Eliza. beth In 1899; that after six vears he secured.his release hy' order of court on habeas corpus: that Fenning had received $648 of his money, and that all he ever got' was $13 while in St. Elizabeth and $200. which the court ordered Fenning to pay him. “Can any one conceive of a mor hotrible injustice? Thi~ taithtul old soldier, §6 years old, who had lovally served his country throughout the Civil War and for 20 years thereafter, was forcibly segregated from the rest of the world and buried behind the iron bars of St. Elibabeth for six long vears when he was not of unsound mind but sane, and was not only proven of sound mind by a jury. but was certified to be of sound mind by Dr William A. White himself, when Judge A. W. Thomas forced a hearing Dbefore the coirts. And during this time Mr. Fréderick A. Fenning had exploited “his money and had made every attempt possible to prevent his regaining his deserved liberty." Mr. Blanton also quoted extensively from the record of the hearing re. garding the confinement.of Miss Cor- nelia k. Corbett and her mother, whose personal effects, he charged, ;./er‘msold .:-(u. great sacrifice by Mr. enning, acting as guardian, wi thelr knowledge, B Quoting from testimony .of ‘Mr. Fen- ning at that hearing 20 yearg ago, Mr. Blanton toid his colleagues®that’ Mr. Fenning’s 'admissions then are most damaging just now." In explaining how. he hecame connected with cases in the insane hospital, Mr. Fenning said: “When 1 was at the United States pension agency, In the Government service, 1 had charge for a good many- years of the payments of pensions to Nduclaries. Al of the .payments to guardfans, committees' * or conserva- tors huve been through me. Tt seemed to me there was a fleld here fof a man {0 act 4s-what might be called a quasi public Fuar ~ “Withis twe hs after ok signed from the rament service netimes enning’s t of a pro- nd in that upt. White, cases sug. It oceurred tof a Seemad Super- of the old_sol- | misston that T ever #il of those | the 07 cakes he was! the ree-! Sénate’s Orator, LAWRENCE W. GUNTHER, Of the Senate Pages’ School, whe will icipate in the District final of the National Oratorical Contest. I and took that up. business of that nature hegan to come in: and l.have heen appointed and 1 am now com- mittee of, 1 think. ahout 65 lunatics and one habitual drunkard and guard- | ian of about seven minor children. | “*When I took that matter up with some of the judges of the courts, as I did in the first instance, and told | them what | was ready to do, Mr. i Barnard. who was then hold. ing Probate Court and also hearing | lunacy cases, remarked that he would be glad to appoint me in such cases but he was tically in every case guided by the recommendation of the petitios hat if a petition came to him suggesting some one else. and 'hlll person was a proper person. he should | feel that he ought to appoint that per Then it was up to me to see tha he person suggested in the pe- quotation. Mr. to the Interrupting his Blanton declared dramatically House “That remarkable ad. heard any atto who claimed reputable standing DId_you get ite full signifi- Mr. Fenning hack in 1908 then testified: “Then it was up to me to see that T was the person suggested in the petition.” 1« there ! barratry here in the District of Colum- hia? Is there no bar association 1o htegnlnlfl such indecent hegging for Taw { businesa? But let_me quote further I»xt erpts from his testimony | “Then it was up to me | 1 wan the person suggested in the pe tition, because the judge had made it rather plain to me that he did not care, unless there was &n unusual reason for it, 10 peglect the suggestion shown in the petitic “With particular r nee to what physicians and how many physicians should textify in lunacy caxes, Justice | Barnard agreed with me that in ac- | cordance with the old Maryland law i thers ought to he the testimony of at {least two medical men. The conclu- sion was reached that the ideal ar- rangement would be - to -have ne physician from the huaspital and one physician from the city, Rills Were Honored. | “I have had Dr. Nevit. wha used | to be the police surgeon heve and who has testified on the stand that while is the most ney make. cance? 600 10 800 cases. The question came up Years ago ! a8 to whether a physicin on the pay iroll at the Government Hospital for the Insane could properly receive a fee jn those cases 0 1 submitted to the justice in November. 1904, bills | from Dr. Hummer of the hospital and from Dr. Nevitt of the city. He asked*me if 1 cowld find ANy law on the subject which weuld opérate to prevent a ph sicisf at the hospital receivingz a f and my recollection is that the only ilaw 1 eould find and cite wax the stat- ute whiéh provides that an emplove of in woich the United States is a party shall receive nothing in addition to his | actual expenses.’ - He signed an order Ithm Mr. Fenning bhe ‘authorized and { directed to pay the said bills from the | funds of said lunatic.” ™ | During that hearing, according to the quotation from the record pre. | sented by Rlanion today, Mr. Hay forced from Mr. Fenning the admis sion that he had solicited these cases from the Government Hospital for the Insane “and from every institution and from all the attornevs I could nected in any way with a case quiring the services of a fduciary.’ Mr. Fenning nied “absolutely’ that he ‘had heen body out at that institution™ and that they got & part of his fees. > During his testimony ai that time Mr. Fenning stated: “I am going on this record here as saving that I am willing to do business by whaolesaie whenever 1 can get it.” Explains Two Fees, Mr. Fenning also questioned by Mr. Hay regarding charges that he had paid a fee to his law partner, Mr. Coldren, in cases in which he was guardian. Mr. Fenning explained that In some cases, in addition to the fee as guardian, he received an addi tional fee as attorney. Mr. Blanton submitted to the Honse an afdavit by Mise Corbett, dated April 6 of this year, in which she stated that her father's estate. con- sisting of at least $75.000. was han- dled by dishonest executors: that she and her mother were fmflbl)" carried to St. Elizateth’s in a wagon; that Mr. Fenning Nnum; not to release them. but remanded them back to St. Elizabeth’s without A proper hearing: that Mr. Fenning sold all of their effects, heirlooms of several generations, for $500, out of which the mother received $2¢ in cash and -had a dentist bil of $25 id. wl‘om‘llul(nx her afMdavit, Miss Cor- hett sald: “My mother was never able to col- iect anything from my father's estate, and It was all squandered. If Mr. Fenning had not kept my mother and myself unjustly shut up hehind the bars of St. Elizabeth’s for two vears and four months we would have bheen able, in all probability. to have recov. ad something from my father's es. 1 was released with my mother yizabeth's under said order of court in October, 1906. and since then I have been emploved In clerical capacities here in Washington. - My mother had her life shortened very materially by that awful experience in St. Elizabeth’s, and she died some time ago. It makes me shudder now to think of all the suffering Mr. Fen- ning caunsed us: and, just to think, he did it all'for the fesd and commissions he got out of our property. I am not vindictive, but | do appeal to the Con- gress of the United. States to see to it that this man = not permitted to oc- cupy the iniportant -position of Com. missioner of the District of Columbia." Cites Their Relationship. In discussing how Dr. J. Ramsay Nevitt has been “handy on coréner's certificates,” Mr. Blanten reminded hiz colleagues that “Dr. Nevitt is a brother-in-law of Mr. Fenning.” “Since August, 1900, he hus been coroner of the District. And the hear- g of 1906 shows that Mr. Fenning used him ax one of hix physicians to swear his wards into St. Elizabeth's, and for which Mr. Fenning paid him Bastin casé he paid him $25, notwith- fim that he was'coroper. And -thiz hearing in 1906 complaint was then made tihes W coroner’s certifi- ! (ESKIMS TERRIFIED | N ety OF LECAT. Apusks ] IS GUILTY OF LEGAL ABUSES | of moving an audience. 0 law against | | he wax police surgeon he testified in | for $10 each that-l had received from | | the- linited States testifying in a case | reach and from anybody who was con- | re- | in cahoots with some. e court | $10 per, except we know that in the | D.C. BOY ORATOR FOR PAGES' SCHOOL Lawrence Gunther to Repre- sent Senate Messengers in Contest Here. Lawrence W. GGunther, 15 vears old, a Senate page, will have the honer of heing the first representative of the Senate Pages’ School to participate in the National Orotorical Contest. He will speak on the Constitution in the finals of the private and parochlal schools group of the Distriet of Colum- bia which will be held in the audi- torium of Gonzaga High School on the evening of April Young Gunther, who entertains & | dream of practicing law and sntering the field of politics in due season, fully realizes the value of an intimate knowledge of the Constitution and of the ability to express himself Auently and forcefully in oratory as a means of attaining his life goal. and with thie fact in mind is busily engaged in polishing his first serious oratorieal effort and drilling himself in_the arts Also he ex presses confidence in hic ahility to prove a formidable contender among those who will compete in the private and parochial school group. Is Native of Capital. The pages' school representative in the contest is < native of Washington and lives with his parents at 3204 'wenty-second street northeast. He & son of Frank A. Gunther. who ame o this city from Wisconsin and is an assistant assessor of the Distriet of Columbia. Lawrence s hopes of a publie career are centered npon the native Siate of the famfly. where he has many relatives and friends. and which he has visited in his Summer vacations. The contest in the pages’ schoel. which is conducted for the aducational {benefit of the youthful messengers. whose hours of work cannot he well harmonized with the econventional school schedule, is under the super vision of Mrs. L. H. Jones, the prin- cipal. This is the first vear of ex- istence of the school. which has al- ready proved its worth 1o the ambi- |tious boys of the class that seek and ttain the most valuable experience | work that their positions afford. ! Reports received from facuity com | mittee chairmen of the pubiic high !schools of the District of Columbia ndicate that the contesis in those | schools which have not already se- llected finalists will he rushed 1o a jconclusion, following the reconvening {of the sessions after the Faster holi- |day<. The first hearing hefore th i faculty committee at Business High {will be held next Tuesdax and the | school finals on Apr In the { Eastern High the 12 pupils new re- \mainlnfi in the contest will speak before the faculty commitiee dnring { the third week in April and the & t | selectsd Analiste will mest in { school auditorium—on April 30 Requests are heing received daily | at the office of the Oratorical Contest, 223 Star Building. for tickets by those {desiring to atiend the national finals, which will be held in Washington June 4. Tickets will not be availahle for distribution until sarly in May. At the meeting of June 4 the seven speak- ers selected from all parta of the { United States will contest for the na- {tional honors and for the priviiege {of representing this country in the internationa! contest, which will be iheld in Washington in October. A three-month educational and pleas- ]pr- tour of ‘Europe also is included |in the awards which each finalist will enjoy in addition to the substantial {cash prizes which are offered by the newspapers in the varions parts of | the country which they will represent. ! i jcate of death in the Brown case didn't |state the real cause, as said patiant | had been allowed 10 burn by steam." | Mr. Blanton further stated that he | had been “reliably informed that M Fenning has for vears been attarney ! | for Undertaker Gawler and that he & director and owns stock in the com. { pany. |, In developing his charges that - |teggers, hotels and taxicans are r:'-':'. i protected, Mr. Blanton said: | ““Joe Kelly ix a political boss of Hal. | timore. For $1.000 fee he will zuar [ante the safe delivery of a fiveton {truck loadd of liquor into Washing {ton. His trucks enter the Distriet 1At an exact hour agreed upon.' “The Metropolitan police force is a splendid bunch of loval men. hut thay { ean enforce only when directed 1o do {%0. You have probably noticed In the press lately that Maj. Hesce. sy- | perintendent of police. has complainad thai there are too many arrests. and he is now taking steps to reduce ar- rests. If ne drinks liquor himself. he cADnot expect his men to enforce the law. Each time. during my Iast hree Interviews with Maj. Hesse, I have | smelled liquor on his breath. Having had complaints about it, I went te him and had a heart-to-heart talk and urged him to let it alone. as his use of it would demoralize every man on his police force. He promised me he would, but he has noi stopped it. There is entirely too much lquor dis pensed every day around the Distriet Building. Maj. Hesxe was not an ax perienced policeman. He was a po lice clerk. Commissioner Fenning must have hed some special reason for making him superintendent over the heads of many. many deserving, experienced policemen of vears nf training. “The monopoly that hotels, the Union Station and taxicabs have here in & disgrace to Washington. 1 want my rolle;xuen to check up the hold- ings of the ‘big five’ and their # on hotel holdings.” Selog BOWIE ENTRIES FOR FRIDAY. RST RACE—$1.200: maiden 4 turlongs. - the i | / oar- tFlonan .. ... . |y Frank_ Andrews. 11 3 Bls plamend’. 11 Manter William 1Golden Pannant 118 tR. W Carter antry. H A s COND RACE—$1 pode- 7 turiongs. e e . 110 Barney wens .. 118 Dubme oo HE 116 Zeod ..00000 118 THIRD RACE—$1.200: claiming: 3.year- | olds and b’ 8% Taion - 113 Pole Star ... . 100 *The Cleckm dar 10> +Camoufiage Bodansiky - purse: ciaiming: nriongs. Lieut. Swepl 118 *Butteren 88 Conncan 14 100 FIFTH RAC ville Artists’ 1ve miles, Pandostn 102 Gol Dr. O'Mara ... 1601 $Cu tPrince Hamist glh Fe Forecaster . 18 1H. G. Bedwell sntry. SIXTH RACE—SI1 olds and up; 1 mil Ty e T Gondotier - or e 108 *Fornovo 107 SEVENTH RACE—$1.700: claimi year-olds and ut 1A miles. Mynti; " Eateary M." Smith .. e o 193 EoARE R SR 1.500: “National v, A e veun 89 Rox. ok & Rozana